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Joe Mantegna
American
Actor
About the author
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,
American
Actor
#World
#Play
#Risk
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,
American
Actor
#Hope
#People
#Day
#End
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,
American
Actor
#God
That's why I really don't play cards or gamble. Because I'd crack.
Joe Mantegna,
American
Actor
#Play
#Cards
There are a lot of people who will come to me for advice or whatever.
Joe Mantegna,
American
Actor
#People
#Will
#Advice
There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers.
Joe Mantegna,
American
Actor
#Evil
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,
American
Actor
#Now
#Voice
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,
American
Actor
You talk to the real cops and they say ninety percent of it is paperwork.
Joe Mantegna,
American
Actor
#Talk
You know the way I play golf, it's a good I do these things for charities.
Joe Mantegna,
American
Actor
#Play
#Golf
I've spent the better part of the last twenty-five years doing a lot of traveling.
Joe Mantegna,
American
Actor
#Years
#Traveling
They put me in the drama class, and that's the path I've taken.
Joe Mantegna,
American
Actor
#Class
#Drama
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,
American
Actor
#Nothing
#Martin
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,
American
Actor
#People
#Public
#Work
#Will
#Being
#Help
#Fact
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,
American
Actor
#Fun
#Wife
#Family
#Care
#Italy
I've loved it, but I have a wife and two children.
Joe Mantegna,
American
Actor
#Wife
#Children
But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways.
Joe Mantegna,
American
Actor
#Society
Dean Martin is one of my heroes.
Joe Mantegna,
American
Actor
#Heroes
#Martin
For every Mother Teresa, there's a Jeffrey Dahmer.
Joe Mantegna,
American
Actor
#Mother
For the last thirty years in my career I never know what I'm doing next.
Joe Mantegna,
American
Actor
#Years
#Career
I mean, believe me, I'm not for censorship.
Joe Mantegna,
American
Actor
#Censorship
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,
American
Actor
#Life
#Open
#Knowledge
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,
American
Actor
#Want
#Day
#Home
#Thought
#Stability
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,
American
Actor
#Day
#Culture
I'm in the wrong racket if I didn't want a public life.
Joe Mantegna,
American
Actor
#Want
#Life
#Public
#Wrong
I did plays and movies and whatever all over the place.
Joe Mantegna,
American
Actor
#Movies
I'm a character actor so I've jumped around to all kinds of things.
Joe Mantegna,
American
Actor
#Character
#Actor