70 Quotes by James Gandolfini

It is a dark, dark world. If you’re going to be in a dark world, I can’t think of any better one to be in. I still think I’m very lucky to be in it.

Good writing will bring you to places you don’t even expect sometimes.

You know, all writers are vampires and they’ll look around and they watch you when you’re not even thinking they’re watching you and they’ll slip stuff in.

What they say about TV shows is true. You’re really a family. You laugh, you fight, you get close, you know? Movies are shorter. They’re over quicker. You don’t form the same bonds.

The Sopranos all came down to the writing. I wouldn’t have been on for as long as I was if the writing weren’t so good.

Standing in public in other people’s clothes, pretending to be someone else. It’s a strange way for a grown man to make a living.

I’d love to live in New Orleans. I love the freedom of it – for good and for bad.

I don’t think I will do a Mafia character again. I want to get away from the violence a little bit, because it is starting to bother me personally.

I’ve been very lucky, considering what I look like and what I do.