Joe Mantegna Quotes

You know the way I play golf, it's a good I do these things for charities.

There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers.

Scars remind us where we've been - they don't have to dictate where we are going.

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

I mean, believe me, I'm not for censorship.

There's now a Fat Tony doll, which cracks me up. But you feel honored that they asked you to do a voice.

I'm a character actor so I've jumped around to all kinds of things.

They put me in the drama class, and that's the path I've taken.

If you're going to believe in a God, then you also have to equally believe that there's a flip side to this.

Dean Martin is one of my heroes.

I've spent the better part of the last twenty-five years doing a lot of traveling.

For the last thirty years in my career I never know what I'm doing next.

There are a lot of people who will come to me for advice or whatever.

I wouldn't be surprised if some day, they put the Simpsons in the Smithsonian. It's become part of our culture, those characters.

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

I did plays and movies and whatever all over the place.

You can't bluff someone that's not paying attention.

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.

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.

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

If humanity can exist for another million years, everybody's going to be a light shade of yellow-brown-red-tan.

Actors are journeymen. We show up for work. We do the job and then we go. What goes on behind the scenes is what goes on behind the scenes.

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.