Quote: I would never want to hurt anybody. [Dominic Chianese]
Quote: During the early years while I was acting, I even had a love child. So I have six kids, at least. We're all very close. [Dominic Chianese]
Quote: Every actor dreams of a great role to do, whether it be Hamlet or a great film role. [Dominic Chianese]
Quote: For TV I don't think I could have gotten a better part than Uncle Junior because of the intimacy of the character based on David Chase's brilliant writing. [Dominic Chianese]
Quote: Growing up in a very demonstrative kind of culture, Italian-Americans would sing a lot, and I think my grandfather, singing out the window, probably had the greatest influence in my life. [Dominic Chianese]
Quote: I don't like the way Uncle Junior dresses. He loves it. [Dominic Chianese]
Quote: I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them. [Dominic Chianese]
Quote: I had given up the acting to be a schoolteacher, but I just couldn't handle it, it was too much pressure. I couldn't handle the bureaucracy. [Dominic Chianese]
Quote: I had no idea what they were saying in Italian as a child, they spoke too quickly on the radio. But I realized that language was very funny. [Dominic Chianese]
Quote: I had to audition for the part of Jnior, and I wanted the role terribly because I knew it was a great character. This guy is a wonderful, funny, mean old guy. [Dominic Chianese]
Quote: I have the ability to be passionate about the little things-frustration, tunnel vision, respect. [Dominic Chianese]
Quote: I think Pirandello had something to say to people about what truth really is. [Dominic Chianese]
Quote: I tried to become a family man. I got married, but it didn't work out. After 22 months we got an annulment. Then I married an Italian girl, which resulted in an immediate annulment. I had two annulments by the time I was 23. [Dominic Chianese]
Quote: I was on the bus with Pop, going to lay brick. There was a newspaper lying on the seat, advertising for singers. I loved to sing as a child. [Dominic Chianese]
Quote: I went on tour in the play H.M.S. Pinafore. [Dominic Chianese]
Quote: I went to Brooklyn College and met this beautiful Jewish girl named Merle, with dark hair, exotic looking and brilliant. So we got married and had three children. [Dominic Chianese]
Quote: I'm a Pisces. Pisces are like water washing up on the beach; it takes a lot to get it to inundate people. But like the tide, the emotions are very strong. [Dominic Chianese]
Quote: I'm the kind of guy, when the marriage is breaking up, who doesn't want to yell in front of the kids. So I left, but it was very hard. [Dominic Chianese]
Quote: I've always wanted to play Don Quixote in some way. It's a great role. I think the idealism of the man shows that hope that we have in the human breast to achieve something. [Dominic Chianese]
Quote: If you get involved with Uncle Junior's business, he'll have you killed if it's going to take money away from him. That's very far from me. [Dominic Chianese]
Quote: My father was an American who could cuss in Italian and make an aria out of it. It was wonderful to watch. But then again, he was a Gemini. I believe in that stuff. [Dominic Chianese]
Quote: One of my favorite Sopranos memories is working with a great actress, who unfortunately has passed away, Nancy Marchand. She's number one. [Dominic Chianese]
Quote: The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I've seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic. [Dominic Chianese]
Quote: The CD that I have coming out, Dominic Chianese Hits-that's exciting to me. [Dominic Chianese]
Quote: The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language. [Dominic Chianese]