27 Quotes by Dominic Chianese

There is a lot of me in Uncle Junior.

I'm the kind of guy, when the marriage is breaking up, who doesn't want to yell in front of the kids. So I left, but it was very hard.

If you get involved with Uncle Junior's business, he'll have you killed if it's going to take money away from him. That's very far from me.

I had given up the acting to be a schoolteacher, but I just couldn't handle it, it was too much pressure. I couldn't handle the bureaucracy.

The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I’ve seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic.

I tried to become a family man. I got married, but it didn’t work out. After 22 months we got an annulment. Then I married an Italian girl, which resulted in an immediate annulment. I had two annulments by the time I was 23.

I don’t like the way Uncle Junior dresses. He loves it.

For TV I don’t think I could have gotten a better part than Uncle Junior because of the intimacy of the character based on David Chase’s brilliant writing.

I’ve always wanted to play Don Quixote in some way. It’s a great role. I think the idealism of the man shows that hope that we have in the human breast to achieve something.