"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."

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Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

James Gandolfini

#School Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Intelligent Quotes

“I've found what I was looking for, Child: what people call love between a man and a woman is a season. And if, at its flowering, this season is a feast of greenery, at its waning, it's only a heap of rotting leaves.”
“I was then at the height of my two-facedness: that is, outside I seemed one way, inside I was another; outside false, inside true.”
“The main division in the world is between democratic and undemocratic countries.”
“Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now.”
“Much modern art is, at first sight, unnerving... in the contemporary world, we have come to expect instant response and immediate understanding.”
“The noise around us determines how we speak. And how we listen. Just as a conversation suffers in a war zone, art suffers in a culture built on noise. So does our enjoyment of it.”
“When I was born, my momma pussy had the new car smell.”

Source : "Song 'New Money'". 2009.
“So in my mind I own a lot of house records still”

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