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.
golf play way
You know the way I play golf, it's a good I do these things for charities.
years yellow light
If humanity can exist for another million years, everybody's going to be a light shade of yellow-brown-red-tan.
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.
play cards cracks
That's why I really don't play cards or gamble. Because I'd crack.
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.
play
I did plays and movies and whatever all over the place.
life-lesson mean trying
I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can.
home want might
I reached that day that I always thought might happen, where I say to myself I don't want to do this anymore. I'm looking for some stability. I want to stay home.
character culture ifs
I wouldn't be surprised if some day, they put the Simpsons in the Smithsonian. It's become part of our culture, those characters.
years twenties lasts
I've spent the better part of the last twenty-five years doing a lot of traveling.