104 Quotes by Dennis Farina

When too many people get their hands on things, they want to make it commercial, and they wanna do this, and they wanna do that.

I was in New York on Sept. 11 doing the publicity for Big Trouble. What happened was beyond horrible, and everybody knows that. But we have to go on.

We keep monitoring ourselves, censoring ourselves, being too sensitive to this, too sensitive to that. We can't keep doing that.

Their football is not like our football, and I was asking Vinnie to explain cricket to me and he asked me to explain American football to him.

I had a brother who was an attorney, so my first intention was to go to law school. I wound up in the police department, and I loved it.

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.

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

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.

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.