59 Quotes by Joe Mantegna

I reached that day that I always thought might happen, where I say to myself I don't want to do this anymore. I'm looking for some stability. I want to stay home.

I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can.

The actual time you're acting is miniscule compared to the time you're getting ready to do the work. The big difference on series television is, there's not a lot of hanging-out time. You're pumping those pages out, you're doing six, seven, eight pages a day. And I like that pace.

But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways.

I'm in the wrong racket if I didn't want a public life.

That's why I like the scenes where we're just in the kitchen having breakfast, because it's the interaction between people. The chaos.

I think of being an actor as a blue-collar profession.

That's why I really don't play cards or gamble. Because I'd crack.

But what I will do is I'll acknowledge it and if it can be of any help the fact that I do acknowledge it then maybe other people will benefit from it because I do have somewhat of a public forum being in the line of work I am.