Top 91 Quotes & Sayings by Dennis Farina
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
I would love, one day before this is all over, to do a Western. That, and to play a priest.
This generation of filmmakers is very good. They're seasoned, for some reason.
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.
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.
The cast was huge, but I never saw anybody.
The British have slang words, as we do, but it was fun.
Rooting for the Cubs is not easy, but the best things in life never are.
I have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home.
I try to bring my own style to a role, but I can't change how people think of me.
I loved 'Buddy Faro.' I loved the whole idea.
Chicago's always a friendly place to me.
I don't like to be talked into anything. I don't want to be cajoled.
I'm just a character actor.
I realize that no one is going to come to me and ask me to be Julius Caesar or a romantic lead, but I think I'm a certain type of guy who looks a certain way, and that's just the reality of things.
My best year was probably 1948, and after that, it's been downhill for me.
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.
Sometimes I do pinch myself about the life I've had.
My friends are still the guys I met 40 or 50 years ago.
We know television should educate and inform, and I believe it should entertain.
I love England and the historical aspect of it.
I was a policeman for 18 years.
I've been involved in some movies that I really thought were going to take off that didn't. And then I've thought, 'This movie's not going anywhere,' and it worked. The same thing with television shows.
I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words.
When I first started out acting, I didn't have anything to lose. I had another career. If I fell on my face, I could say, 'I'll see ya,' and go back to working.
Do whatever you're directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director.
I think first impressions are important when you pick up a script.
I didn't fall for a lot of that stardom stuff.
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 think all actors are supposed to be character actors.
I have no message or answers to social questions.
I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?
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 think there is something very nice about going to work to try to make people laugh.
What you do as a policeman might be the right thing to do, but it's not entertaining. I left that behind me.
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.
I'm very lucky. I'm the most fortunate guy that I know.
I wasn't so sure about signing up for 'Law & Order.' I liked the show, but another TV series? I'll tell you, though, it's been great, and I had no idea how popular the show was.
Change never bothers me, not really.
For some reason or another, 'Richard Diamond, Private Eye,' still sticks out in my mind. I don't think I particularly liked that show, but for some reason, he sticks in my mind.
I don't need to see the old school to remember it and the teachers there. They changed the way that I've always looked at life and learning.
I've taken up golf... or golf has taken me up.
I've worked on what I think are good things.
When I first got into acting, I never had any long-term goals, never had any plan. I just thought it would be a good way to make some extra money.
You can't act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right.
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.
As far as carrying the American banner, you just do what's right for the kids.
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.
I'm set in my own ways. I like to do the things I want to do when I want to do them.
Sometimes you can take those dramatic roles and maybe interject a little humor into them, and I think the reverse also works.
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.
One of the funny things in life to me is a guy who takes himself very seriously.
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.
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.
Vince or Brad or Benicio would say, Maybe we should try this, and Guy was open to changes.
If I'm characterized as a character actor, that's fine with me. Whatever they want to call me is fine.
I'm a bit of a clotheshorse, and having a tailor-made suit is a big deal.
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.
In the kind of roles I do, you can do them and walk away from it and have a really nice time.
There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school.
When I was younger, I watched all the detective shows.
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