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American policeman and actor (b. 1944), Death: 22-7-2013 Dennis Farina Quotes
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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.
Dennis Farina

2.
I have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home.
Dennis Farina

3.
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.
Dennis Farina

4.
You cant act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right.
Dennis Farina

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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.
Dennis Farina

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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.
Dennis Farina

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As far as carrying the American banner, you just do what's right for the kids.
Dennis Farina

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I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?
Dennis Farina

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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.
Dennis Farina

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

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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.
Dennis Farina

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

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

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I think first impressions are important when you pick up a script.
Dennis Farina

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I love England and the historical aspect of it.
Dennis Farina

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I'm old enough to never say never. I never had a grand plan with what I was going to do. There are some movies that I would like to be involved with, but I'm trying to be a working actor.
Dennis Farina

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In a sense, all actors are character actors, because we're all playing different characters. But a lot of the time - and I don't know, because I'm not a writer - but writers a lot of times write second- and third-tier characters better than they write primary characters. I guess they're more fun.
Dennis Farina

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Writer-directors are a little bit more liberal, rather than having just the writer on the set, because I think sometimes the writer becomes too precious with the words. If you're a writer-director, you can see what you're doing and see your work in action, so I think you can correct it right there and still not compromise yourself.
Dennis Farina

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I don't watch any of my own movies, but I love going to the movies. To me, there is nothing more relaxing or gratifying than sitting down in the dark and having some popcorn and watching a great movie.
Dennis Farina

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

21.
I think all actors are supposed to be character actors.
Dennis Farina

22.
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.
Dennis Farina

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

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This is my first experience working in a foreign movie, but the mechanics, I think, are pretty much the same all over; you still have to wait in the trailer.
Dennis Farina