James Gandolfini

James: I just don't think I'm that interesting. I don't think what I have to say is that interesting. To hear me go, 'Blah, blah, blah, blah'. I mean, who… cares?

James: I should exercise, but I'm too old for that s**t. I lost 30lbs to play my character in The Mexican, but people don't take to skinny mafia men, and I don't feel right when I'm thin. I was voted best-looking kid in high school but, as you can see, things changed. I used to say I was a 260lb Woody Allen. You can make that 295lb now.

James: I'm a neurotic mess. I'm really basically just like a 260-pound Woody Allen.

James: (on The Sopranos) I was in bed, and I got the script and I was reading it, and I said, 'Man, this is really good, there's no way I'll get hired for this!

James: Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make, ... The nice thing about my father is that he spent a lot of time with his children. We had a good time with my father.

James: I'm an actor... I do a job and I go home. Why are you interested in me? You don't ask a truck driver about his job.

James: I've been very lucky, considering what I look like and what I do.

James: (on his character in The Sopranos) I have a little bit of a temper, but it's ... a useless temper, ... It doesn't accomplish anything, generally. It's just a lot of ranting and raving and nothing, so David [Chase] probably saw that and put it into the character.

James: 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.

James: 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.