59 Quotes by Joe Mantegna

Whenever you're going to play a real person, you run the risk of well, everybody in the world kind of has an image of what that person is and who he should be and so you really have to do your homework.

When they were small and my wife really had no other responsibilities, except taking care of the family and all of us, it wasn't that big a deal. It was fun. Hey, we're going to Moscow. We're going to Italy. We're going to Toronto. We're going to New York.

When I played Dean Martin, he was dead when we made the movie but there would have been nothing better than to spend a week with Dean Martin if I could have.

You learn that not all things fall into a certain kind of pattern that can be predictable and that can be understandable and that's going to be easy, you know.

You know, you want to research it as close to the resource material as you can, you know, where you're going to be drawing it from.

I've loved it, but I have a wife and two children.

You talk to the real cops and they say ninety percent of it is paperwork.

I mean, I don't work with a system as an actor in the sense of method as much as it's a compilation of everything I've done and learned all my life.

For every Mother Teresa, there's a Jeffrey Dahmer.