Dennis Farina famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.
-- Dennis Farina

#Reality #Long #Entertainment
You cant act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right.
-- Dennis Farina

#Thinking #Editing #Way
I love England and the historical aspect of it.
-- Dennis Farina

#Historical #England #Aspect
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.
-- Dennis Farina

#Thinking #Waiting #Over You
I don't like to be talked into anything. I don't want to be cajoled.
-- Dennis Farina

#Want
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.
-- Dennis Farina

#Real #Used #Made
I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?
-- Dennis Farina

#Jesus #Writing #Two
There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school.
-- Dennis Farina

#School #Acting #Actors
What you do as a policeman might be the right thing to do, but it's not entertaining. I left that behind me.
-- Dennis Farina

#Might #Policemen #Entertaining
You can change a person's life in an instant; put him in a movie, and you start thinking differently, you want to be in another movie. It's like an addiction almost.
-- Dennis Farina

#Thinking #Addiction #Want
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.
-- Dennis Farina

#Tvs #Said #Wanted
I think first impressions are important when you pick up a script.
-- Dennis Farina

#Thinking #Important #First Impression
I think all actors are supposed to be character actors.
-- Dennis Farina

#Character #Thinking #Actors
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.
-- Dennis Farina

#Character #Trying #Directors
I know people who go back and check themselves, but it drives me crazy. Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case.
-- Dennis Farina

#Crazy #Mirrors #People
I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words.
-- Dennis Farina

#Trying #Technique #Remember
As far as carrying the American banner, you just do what's right for the kids.
-- Dennis Farina

#Kids #Banner
Do whatever you're directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director.
-- Dennis Farina

#Directors #Stuff
I have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home.
-- Dennis Farina

#Couple #Home #Years
When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn't know what the story was about or anything.
-- Dennis Farina

#Kids #Stories #Wayne

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