Joe Mantegna
Joe Mantegna
Joseph Anthony "Joe" Mantegna, Jr.is an American actor, producer, writer, director, and voice actor...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth13 November 1947
CountryUnited States of America
learned method system work
I mean, I don't work with a system as an actor in the sense of method as much as it's a compilation of everything I've done and learned all my life.
cops ninety
You talk to the real cops and they say ninety percent of it is paperwork.
loved wife
I've loved it, but I have a wife and two children.
certain pattern
You learn that not all things fall into a certain kind of pattern that can be predictable and that can be understandable and that's going to be easy, you know.
golf play way
You know the way I play golf, it's a good I do these things for charities.
evil cop robbers
There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers.
years yellow light
If humanity can exist for another million years, everybody's going to be a light shade of yellow-brown-red-tan.
voice dolls cracks
There's now a Fat Tony doll, which cracks me up. But you feel honored that they asked you to do a voice.
jobs actors goes-on
Actors are journeymen. We show up for work. We do the job and then we go. What goes on behind the scenes is what goes on behind the scenes.
scar
Scars remind us where we've been - they don't have to dictate where we are going.
play cards cracks
That's why I really don't play cards or gamble. Because I'd crack.
character actors kind
I'm a character actor so I've jumped around to all kinds of things.
differences eight acting
The actual time you're acting is miniscule compared to the time you're getting ready to do the work. The big difference on series television is, there's not a lot of hanging-out time. You're pumping those pages out, you're doing six, seven, eight pages a day. And I like that pace.
years careers lasts
For the last thirty years in my career I never know what I'm doing next.