Quotes by Joe Mantegna - Page 1

Dean Martin is one of my heroes.
Joe Mantegna / Actor
Dean
Hero
My Hero
Heroes
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I mean, believe me, I'm not for censorship.
Joe Mantegna / Actor
Believe
Censorship
Mean
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For every Mother Teresa, there's a Jeffrey Dahmer.
Joe Mantegna / Actor
Mother
Teresa
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You can't bluff someone that's not paying attention.
Joe Mantegna / Actor
Attention
Bluffs
Pay Attention
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I think of being an actor as a blue-collar profession.
Joe Mantegna / Actor
Actors
Blue
Thinking
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I'm in the wrong racket if I didn't want a public life.
Joe Mantegna / Actor
Public Life
Racket
Want
Public
Wrong
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I did plays and movies and whatever all over the place.
Joe Mantegna / Actor
Plays
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There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers.
Joe Mantegna / Actor
Cop
Evil
Good And Evil
Robbers
Good Good And Evil Evil
Cops
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They put me in the drama class, and that's the path I've taken.
Joe Mantegna / Actor
Class
Drama
Path
Taken
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That's why I really don't play cards or gamble. Because I'd crack.
Joe Mantegna / Actor
Cards
Cracks
Gamble
Play
Crack
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I'm a character actor so I've jumped around to all kinds of things.
Joe Mantegna / Actor
Actors
Character
Kind
Character Actor
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But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways.
Joe Mantegna / Actor
Stills
Way
Somewhat
Puritanical
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There are a lot of people who will come to me for advice or whatever.
Joe Mantegna / Actor
Advice
People
Me People Will
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For the last thirty years in my career I never know what I'm doing next.
Joe Mantegna / Actor
Careers
Lasts
Thirty
Years
Doing Never Know
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You talk to the real cops and they say ninety percent of it is paperwork.
Joe Mantegna / Actor
Ninety
Paperwork
Percent
Cops
Ninety Percent
They Say
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You know the way I play golf, it's a good I do these things for charities.
Joe Mantegna / Actor
Golf
Play
Way
Good Way Know
Charities
Play Golf
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Scars remind us where we've been - they don't have to dictate where we are going.
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I've spent the better part of the last twenty-five years doing a lot of traveling.
Joe Mantegna / Actor
Lasts
Twenties
Twenty Five
Years
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There's now a Fat Tony doll, which cracks me up. But you feel honored that they asked you to do a voice.
Joe Mantegna / Actor
Cracks
Dolls
Honored
Voice
Fat
Doll
Tony
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If you're going to believe in a God, then you also have to equally believe that there's a flip side to this.
Joe Mantegna / Actor
Believe
Flip
Two Sides
Equally
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If humanity can exist for another million years, everybody's going to be a light shade of yellow-brown-red-tan.
Joe Mantegna / Actor
Light
Years
Yellow
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I wouldn't be surprised if some day, they put the Simpsons in the Smithsonian. It's become part of our culture, those characters.
Joe Mantegna / Actor
Character
Culture
Smithsonian
Simpsons
Surprised
The Simpsons
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That's why I like the scenes where we're just in the kitchen having breakfast, because it's the interaction between people. The chaos.
Joe Mantegna / Actor
Breakfast
Kitchen
People
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Actors are journeymen. We show up for work. We do the job and then we go. What goes on behind the scenes is what goes on behind the scenes.
Joe Mantegna / Actor
Jobs
Actors
Goes On
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When I played Dean Martin, he was dead when we made the movie but there would have been nothing better than to spend a week with Dean Martin if I could have.
Joe Mantegna / Actor
If I Could
Dead
Martin
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You learn that not all things fall into a certain kind of pattern that can be predictable and that can be understandable and that's going to be easy, you know.
Joe Mantegna / Actor
All Things
Predictable
Pattern
Understandable
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I reached that day that I always thought might happen, where I say to myself I don't want to do this anymore. I'm looking for some stability. I want to stay home.
Joe Mantegna / Actor
Home
Might
Stability
Want
Home Myself Day
Reached
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Whenever you're going to play a real person, you run the risk of well, everybody in the world kind of has an image of what that person is and who he should be and so you really have to do your homework.
Joe Mantegna / Actor
Homework
Real Person
Risk
World Real Your
Whenever
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If at the end of the day, people look at it and say, oh, yeah, I liked his stuff, or for the most part I liked his stuff, or I've enjoyed watching some of the things he's done, that's all I can hope for.
Joe Mantegna / Actor
Enjoyed
Looks
People
The End Of The Day
Yeah
End Of The Day
Oh Yeah
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I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can.
Joe Mantegna / Actor
Lessons
Life Lesson
Mean
Trying
Life Lessons
Suppose
Ride
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But what I will do is I'll acknowledge it and if it can be of any help the fact that I do acknowledge it then maybe other people will benefit from it because I do have somewhat of a public forum being in the line of work I am.
Joe Mantegna / Actor
Acknowledge
Benefits
Lines
People
Work I Am People
Benefit
Somewhat
Forum
Public Forum
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When they were small and my wife really had no other responsibilities, except taking care of the family and all of us, it wasn't that big a deal. It was fun. Hey, we're going to Moscow. We're going to Italy. We're going to Toronto. We're going to New York.
Joe Mantegna / Actor
Hey
Moscow
Toronto
Except
Italy
Responsibilities
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The actual time you're acting is miniscule compared to the time you're getting ready to do the work. The big difference on series television is, there's not a lot of hanging-out time. You're pumping those pages out, you're doing six, seven, eight pages a day. And I like that pace.
Joe Mantegna / Actor
Acting
Differences
Eight
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