Zitat des Tages von Dennis Farina:
I loved 'Buddy Faro.' I loved the whole idea.
If you did something, and it wasn't right, you definitely found out about it. And they were pretty smart people, both my parents, so you didn't get too much by them.
The British have slang words, as we do, but it was fun.
Do whatever you're directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director.
I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series.
I don't like to be talked into anything. I don't want to be cajoled.
Vince or Brad or Benicio would say, Maybe we should try this, and Guy was open to changes.
I never jumped into anything, and I never liked being cajoled into anything. I've pretty much always done things because I wanted to do them.
I think first impressions are important when you pick up a script.
This face is nothing to brag about. I don't know what it is that these people see in my face.
I like working. I like getting up every morning and going somewhere. Where I do it or what form doesn't matter.
I even played a part in 'Miami Vice.'
When they released Sidewalks of New York, there were some shots with the towers they were going to take out, and Ed told them no. I don't think they can deny the towers were a part of New York.
You can't act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right.
Rooting for the Cubs is not easy, but the best things in life never are.
In the kind of roles I do, you can do them and walk away from it and have a really nice time.
Maybe it's because I was too much reality, but I'm not interested in seeing too much reality anymore. I'd rather watch a Dean Martin concert and let the world go by.
There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school.
I think all actors are supposed to be character actors.
Chicago's always a friendly place to me.
I try to bring my own style to a role, but I can't change how people think of me.
I think my high-school acting career lasted a day.
I read the script and try not to bring anything personal into it. I make notes, talk to the director and we decide what kinds of shades should be in the character.
I'm set in my own ways. I like to do the things I want to do when I want to do them.
Usually you're in movies with a lot of dissolves and things, but this was kind of quick, more jarring than usual. I thought it would be fun to be in a movie that's unconventional. Then I met Guy and I liked him. I think he's a good man.
We know television should educate and inform, and I believe it should entertain.
Car chases usually don't involve major criminals - they're usually guys afraid of getting another traffic ticket.
I've probably played more non-police roles than people realize.
This isn't the most handsome face in the world, and there are a lot of younger guys out there, but I keep hanging in there.
You really have to act on the force, too. You're involved in a hundred things a day, and you have to react in a hundred different ways, depending on what's going on. And you learn that as you go through your career, how you handle certain situations, interrogations, how you carry yourself. There's a kind of acting to it.
I'd love to do a Western. A real Western like John Ford used to do. There's not too many of them made, so I don't know if I'll ever get to do that. They're awfully hard movies to make.
This is my first experience working in a foreign movie, but the mechanics, I think, are pretty much the same all over; you still have to wait in the trailer.
I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words.
I love England and the historical aspect of it.
This generation of filmmakers is very good. They're seasoned, for some reason.
If I'm characterized as a character actor, that's fine with me. Whatever they want to call me is fine.