James Gandolfini
James Gandolfini
James Joseph Gandolfini, Jr.was an American actor and producer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth18 September 1961
CityWestwood, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
fun people acting
Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people.
cameras wells props
I like the prop food so much that I eat it between takes as well as on camera,
mean thinking interesting
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?
pants pretending grows
Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying.
vampire bedtime
All writers are vampires.
school intelligent thinking
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.
laughing sopranos cry
I find I have to be the sad clown: laughing on the outside, crying on the inside.
fighting tv-shows laughing
What they say about TV shows is true. You're really a family. You laugh, you fight, you get close, you know? Movies are shorter. They're over quicker. You don't form the same bonds.
hbo
I have nothing but respect for HBO.
want privilege
I want nothing to do with privilege.
jobs party school
Work-do plays, learn your craft, and go to school. Keep working. Nobody is going to give you jobs for going to parties or any of that nonsense. Go out, look around, do things.
actors
I've never worked with an actor that I did not like.
I'm not a big, three-hour-play, Ibsen-revival kind of man.
good
'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.