Quotes from James Gandolfini

I have nothing but respect for HBO.

Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make.

Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.

I'm an actor... I do a job and I go home. Why are you interested in me? You don't ask a truck driver about his job.

I like dark places.

I've been very lucky, considering what I look like and what I do.

Those who want respect, give respect.

I have nothing but respect for HBO.

I find I have to be the sad clown: laughing on the outside, crying on the inside.

It is a dark, dark world. If you're going to be in a dark world, I can't think of any better one to be in. I still think I'm very lucky to be in it.

I just don't think I'm that interesting. I don't think what I have to say is that interesting. To hear me go blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I mean, who... cares?

Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying.

'The Sopranos' all came down to the writing. I wouldn't have been on for as long as I was if the writing weren't so good.

For once I'm not the guy losing my temper all the time.

I was voted best-looking kid in high school but, as you can see, things changed. I used to say I was a 260 pound Woody Allen. You can make that 295 pound now.

I just think its the changes that age brings. You slow down a little bit ... the writers are smart enough to write all those changes that life gives you.

I find it hard to relax. I live in New York.

I like idiotic comedies.

You know, all writers are vampires and they'll look around and they watch you when you're not even thinking they're watching you and they'll slip stuff in.

I'd love to live in New Orleans. I love the freedom of it - for good and for bad.

I love doing theaters, cracking people up, hearing them physically roll in the aisles. But we need to get serious. These are serious times. No joke. No joke.

I don't think I will do a Mafia character again. I want to get away from the violence a little bit, because it is starting to bother me personally.

Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living.

I dabbled a little bit in acting in high school, and then I forgot about it completely. And then at about 25 I went to a class. I don't think anybody in my family thought it was an intelligent choice. I don't think anybody thought I'd succeed, which is understandable. I think they were just happy that I was doing something.