27 Quotes by Dominic Chianese

I think Pirandello had something to say to people about what truth really is.

The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language.

They would wake me up when I was sleeping, and say sing a song for our friends. I had a sweet voice, I had a nice little tenor voice. God knows what I sang, but my whole family would admire me.

Uncle Junior is a criminal, which makes him a villain, so it makes people want to watch him. My whole life as an actor has been preparing for something like this.

When I started really singing I was 17, 18 years old. I used to go around trying to be a singer in the Bronx. My knees would shake but I learned by doing.

I went on tour in the play H.M.S. Pinafore.

Im the kind of guy, when the marriage is breaking up, who doesnt want to yell in front of the kids. So I left, but it was very hard.

I had no idea what they were saying in Italian as a child, they spoke too quickly on the radio. But I realized that language was very funny.

I was on the bus with Pop, going to lay brick. There was a newspaper lying on the seat, advertising for singers. I loved to sing as a child.