Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living. James Gandolfini More Quotes by James Gandolfini More Quotes From James Gandolfini I'm an actor... I do a job and I go home. Why are you interested in me? You don't ask a truck driver about his job. James Gandolfini actors home jobs People don't know and they shouldn't know that you work incredibly hard as an actor. James Gandolfini actors knows people You know my feelings: every day is a gift. It's just, does it have to be socks? James Gandolfini pairs doe feelings Those who want respect, give respect. James Gandolfini sopranos want giving Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes. James Gandolfini good-writing writing sometimes For once I'm not the guy losing my temper all the time. James Gandolfini temper guy losing The Sopranos all came down to the writing. I wouldn't have been on for as long as I was if the writing weren't so good. James Gandolfini sopranos writing long I love hearing people laugh. James Gandolfini hearing laughing people Work-do plays, learn your craft, and go to school. Keep working. Nobody is going to give you jobs for going to parties or any of that nonsense. Go out, look around, do things. James Gandolfini party jobs school I find I have to be the sad clown: laughing on the outside, crying on the inside. James Gandolfini sopranos cry laughing I'd love to live in New Orleans. I love the freedom of it - for good and for bad. James Gandolfini new-orleans I've been very lucky, considering what I look like and what I do. James Gandolfini considering lucky looks It is a dark, dark world. If you're going to be in a dark world, I can't think of any better one to be in. I still think I'm very lucky to be in it. James Gandolfini lucky dark thinking I just don't think I'm that interesting. I don't think what I have to say is that interesting. To hear me go blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I mean, who... cares? James Gandolfini mean interesting thinking I dabbled a little bit in acting in high school and then I forgot about it completely. And then at about twenty-five 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. James Gandolfini intelligent school thinking Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying. James Gandolfini pretending pants grows All writers are vampires. James Gandolfini bedtime vampire I want nothing to do with privilege. James Gandolfini privilege want Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people. James Gandolfini acting fun people What they say about TV shows is true. You're really a family. You laugh, you fight, you get close, you know? Movies are shorter. They're over quicker. You don't form the same bonds. James Gandolfini tv-shows fighting laughing