Quotes by Dennis Farina

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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 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."

"You can't act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right."

"What you do as a policeman might be the right thing to do, but it's not entertaining. I left that behind me."

"Vince or Brad or Benicio would say, Maybe we should try this, and Guy was open to changes."

"This generation of filmmakers is very good. They're seasoned, for some reason."

"The cast was huge, but I never saw anybody."

"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."

"I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words."

"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."

"Do whatever you're directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director."

"I don't like to be talked into anything. I don't want to be cajoled."

"I love England and the historical aspect of it."

"There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school."

"I think all actors are supposed to be character actors."

"I have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home."

"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."