Quotes by Michael Imperioli - Page 1

Everybody I play probably has some Italian in them.
Michael Imperioli / Actor
Italian
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Being on a TV show is a really good gig for an actor.
Michael Imperioli / Actor
Gig
Tv Show
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I do smoke in real life. A lot. We're all smoking right now in fact.
Michael Imperioli / Actor
Marijuana
Real
Real Life
Smoke
Smoking
Now
Lot
Fact
In Fact
Right
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When I read the pilot of 'The Sopranos,' I wasn't terribly blown away by it.
Michael Imperioli / Actor
Blown Away
Sopranos
Blown
Terribly
Pilot
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I enjoy playing characters who are struggling, particularly with themselves.
Michael Imperioli / Actor
Struggling
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Spike Lee is not the first name you would probably think about redoing 'Oldboy.'
Michael Imperioli / Actor
First Name
Lee
Spike
Spike Lee
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My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what's important to me.
Michael Imperioli / Actor
Family
Important
My Family
What's Important
Life Family Me
Life Me Important
Life Family My Life
Me
As Far As
Else
Everything Else
Far
My Life
Second
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But James Gandolfini and Edie Falco, they did such great work, especially in the last show.
Michael Imperioli / Actor
Great Work
Work Great Great Work
James
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In Britain you're more used to challenging drama. In America, TV is just boring, and numbing, and bloody terrible.
Michael Imperioli / Actor
America
Bloody
Britain
Challenges
Drama
Numbing
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I would never put on a Mets hat. Only if I was playing a Met as part of the job. Which, actually, I did a long time ago.
Michael Imperioli / Actor
Long Time
Long Time Ago
Mets
Time Long Long Time
Hat
Met
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In this world, there really is a law of cause and effect: You reap what you sow. Then energy you put out really does come back to you.
Michael Imperioli / Actor
Reap
Effect
Sow
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When you're going through these difficult times of chaos and trauma, the most important thing is to keep those who are closest to you together.
Michael Imperioli / Actor
Chaos
Closest
Difficult Times
Trauma
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
The Most Important
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There's a whole network of people, particularly in New York, obviously, that came up through the Spike Lee School. I'm one of them. That's big!
Michael Imperioli / Actor
Lee
Spike
Spike Lee
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I've played some gangster roles, but that's obviously not me. When you're an Italian-American New York actor, it's just an easy way to get cast.
Michael Imperioli / Actor
New York
Easy Way
Italian
Italian American
Roles
Me New Way
Gangster
Cast
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To be at acting school, it was kind of the first time you felt the freedom to be as much of yourself as you wanted. People weren't going to judge you.
Michael Imperioli / Actor
First Time
Judging
People
School
Acting School
Judge
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I played guitar in a band from when I was about 20 for three years. Then I sang a little. Then I started getting really busy as an actor and forgot about it.
Michael Imperioli / Actor
Busy
Guitar
Three
Years
Forgot
Sang
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One of my early money mistakes was getting fired from the first acting job I ever had. I was cast in a play as the lead, and I got fired three nights after the open.
Michael Imperioli / Actor
Nights
Fired
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Not to toot our own horn, but when 'The Sopranos' was on, it was as good as any movie that was coming out in the theater. I think that goes for a lot of shows today.
Michael Imperioli / Actor
Sopranos
Thinking
Today
Horn
The Sopranos
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I think a lot of people who didn't know my work before 'The Sopranos' think I came from the Jersey Shore, like they picked us out of the mall and put us on television.
Michael Imperioli / Actor
Jersey
Jersey Shore
Shore
Sopranos
Work People Television
Mall
Picked
The Sopranos
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There's an intelligence that goes with being a good cop. Intuitiveness - they have to be actors; they have to have deductive reasoning, knowledge about a great deal of subjects.
Michael Imperioli / Actor
Cop
Reasoning
Subjects
Great Deal
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When you get made into the Mafia, they cut, prick your finger. And they take the blood and put it on the picture of a saint. Then they burn it. That's the Mafia induction ceremony.
Michael Imperioli / Actor
Ceremony
Saint
Burn
Finger
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I don't know if I would have had the same career had I not done 'GoodFellas.' Probably not. Would I have been cast on 'The Sopranos?' Who knows if there would have been a 'Sopranos?'
Michael Imperioli / Actor
Sopranos
Cast
Done Know Who
The Sopranos
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My goal as an actor was just to be somebody very human. I'm not really interested in playing a character who is particularly cool and everything he does looks great and turns out great.
Michael Imperioli / Actor
Turns
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John Ventimiglia, who was on 'The Sopranos,' was in my first acting class and we have been friends since that time. Alec Baldwin was in my class back then, Sean Young and Andrew McCarthy.
Michael Imperioli / Actor
Acting
Andrew
Class
Firsts
Sean
Sopranos
Since
Acting Class
Alec
John
Mccarthy
The Sopranos
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With screenplays and teleplays, they are mapped, really, in the blueprint of a finished product, which is something you're going to watch on a screen. But a book is an end to itself, really.
Michael Imperioli / Actor
Screenplays
Blueprint
Finished Product
Mapped
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Stop and appreciate what you have today. Look at what you have with wider eyes, maybe with more compassion and more gratitude for the things that you do have and not the things you don’t have.
Michael Imperioli / Actor
Compassion
Eye
Gratitude
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I have a background writing screenplays and teleplays. I've tried to write prose and fiction but never really completed anything I thought worthy of publication or worthy of anyone else to even look at.
Michael Imperioli / Actor
Prose
Publication
Screenplays
Worthy
Anyone Else
Completed
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'Pitchfork' said something like, 'Michael Imperioli wrote a book that sounds like Lou Reed fan fiction,' which maybe it is. It's fiction, and I'm a fan. But it's not about me, and it's not a Lou Reed book.
Michael Imperioli / Actor
Book
Reed
Fan
Michael
Maybe
Sounds
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I've been working professionally as an actor since I was 20. That's going to be 25 years soon. So, that's a veteran. That's a big-time veteran. I've had some great successes, and I've had some not-successes.
Michael Imperioli / Actor
Actors
Veteran
Years
Professionally
Successes
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Detroit 1-8-7' - the numbers are police slang for murder - is filmed in that blue-collar Michigan city, providing a flavor of authenticity. Detroit offers a unique visual landscape that tells the story of the city and what it's been through.
Michael Imperioli / Actor
Cities
Numbers
Unique
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'Detroit 1-8-7' - the numbers are police slang for murder - is filmed in that blue-collar Michigan city, providing a flavor of authenticity. Detroit offers a unique visual landscape that tells the story of the city and what it's been through.
Michael Imperioli / Actor
Authenticity
Blue Collar
Detroit
Flavor
Landscape
Michigan
Numbers
Offers
Police
Providing
Slang
Unique
Visual
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There's too many actors in LA. I mean, I'll go out there from time to time, but I always find it pretty soul-destroying. I don't drive, and the people kind of rub me the wrong way. It's just not home. You know? It's not New York. It's not... my town.
Michael Imperioli / Actor
New York
Home
Mean
Wrong Way
Time Home Me
From Time To Time
La
Rub
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Detroit is a city that really stands out. It's been through a very difficult time. There's been a lot of pain here, and the city, physically, has suffered. You can see it in certain neighborhoods, and there's buildings downtown that have been abandoned.
Michael Imperioli / Actor
Abandoned
Cities
Detroit
Downtown
Pain
Buildings
Suffered
Difficult Time
Stands
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I didn't start making a real living until eight or nine years in. Even after 'Goodfellas' came out, I was still working as a waiter, and people would recognize me - that was an odd experience. But when 'The Sopranos' hit, that was like an exponential leap.
Michael Imperioli / Actor
Leap
Odd
Sopranos
Waiter
Exponential
The Sopranos
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I'd go for parts that didn't pay a dime, and there would be 300 to 400 actors there. It could be very discouraging. To make it in this business, you have to have a kind of dumb sense that you're really good. You have to believe that someone is going to recognize that.
Michael Imperioli / Actor
Believe
Discouraging
Dumb
Would Be
Good Business Believe
Dime
Business Good Believe
Recognize
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When I was young, you went to school, dealt with your friends and drama, went home, did your homework, went to bed, and started over the next day. But that social interaction that happens at school doesn't end now - it goes until the minute you go to bed and starts again when you wake up.
Michael Imperioli / Actor
Homework
Social Interaction
Home Your Day
Dealt
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Back 20 years ago, there was a division between movie actors and TV actors. That's kind of gone away. People who have had a lot of success in movies in the past now want to be on TV. There used to be much more of a quality division between TV and movies, and that's kind of not the case anymore.
Michael Imperioli / Actor
Quality
Division
Gone Away
Movie Actors
Past
Years
Years Ago
Anymore
Case
In The Past
Tv Actors
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At one point, I got to work as an assistant for Martin Scorsese: He wanted to know about all the films coming out, so I would make clippings and put it all in a big scrapbook for him. I was also in charge of his video library - it was like a little video store, and his friends and colleagues would come and borrow films.
Michael Imperioli / Actor
Colleagues
Scorsese
Video
Assistant
Borrow
Charge
Martin Scorsese
Store
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