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Top 20 Dennis Farina Quotes (2025 Update)

Dennis Farina Quote: “I learned a long time ago: You’re in the entertainment business. You’re not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.”

1. “I learned a long time ago: You’re in the entertainment business. You’re not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.”

— Dennis Farina

Dennis Farina Quote: “I think all actors are supposed to be character actors.”

2. “I think all actors are supposed to be character actors.”

— Dennis Farina

Dennis Farina Quote: “What you do as a policeman might be the right thing to do, but it’s not entertaining. I left that behind me.”

3. “What you do as a policeman might be the right thing to do, but it’s not entertaining. I left that behind me.”

— Dennis Farina

Dennis Farina Quote: “I think first impressions are important when you pick up a script.”

4. “I think first impressions are important when you pick up a script.”

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Dennis Farina Quote: “You can change a person’s life in an instant; put him in a movie, and you start thinking differently, you want to be in another movie. It’s like an addiction almost.”

5. “You can change a person’s life in an instant; put him in a movie, and you start thinking differently, you want to be in another movie. It’s like an addiction almost.”

— Dennis Farina

Dennis Farina Quote: “I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series.”

6. “I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series.”

— Dennis Farina

Dennis Farina Quote: “I have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home.”

7. “I have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home.”

— Dennis Farina

Dennis Farina Quote: “I don’t know if I have a technique. I’m just trying to remember the words.”

8. “I don’t know if I have a technique. I’m just trying to remember the words.”

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Dennis Farina Quote: “When I was a kid going to the movies, we’d go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn’t know what the story was about or anything.”

9. “When I was a kid going to the movies, we’d go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn’t know what the story was about or anything.”

— Dennis Farina

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Dennis Farina Quote: “I know people who go back and check themselves, but it drives me crazy. Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that’s just not the case.”

10. “I know people who go back and check themselves, but it drives me crazy. Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that’s just not the case.”

— Dennis Farina

Dennis Farina Quote: “I’d love to do a Western. A real Western like John Ford used to do. There’s not too many of them made, so I don’t know if I’ll ever get to do that. They’re awfully hard movies to make.”

11. “I’d love to do a Western. A real Western like John Ford used to do. There’s not too many of them made, so I don’t know if I’ll ever get to do that. They’re awfully hard movies to make.”

— Dennis Farina

Dennis Farina Quote: “I’ve tried writing. Two days later I’d go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?”

12. “I’ve tried writing. Two days later I’d go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?”

— Dennis Farina

Dennis Farina Quote: “I read the script and try not to bring anything personal into it. I make notes, talk to the director and we decide what kinds of shades should be in the character.”

13. “I read the script and try not to bring anything personal into it. I make notes, talk to the director and we decide what kinds of shades should be in the character.”

— Dennis Farina

Dennis Farina Quote: “As far as carrying the American banner, you just do what’s right for the kids.”

14. “As far as carrying the American banner, you just do what’s right for the kids.”

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Dennis Farina Quote: “Do whatever you’re directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director.”

15. “Do whatever you’re directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director.”

— Dennis Farina

Dennis Farina Quote: “There’s a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school.”

16. “There’s a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school.”

— Dennis Farina

Dennis Farina Quote: “I don’t like to be talked into anything. I don’t want to be cajoled.”

17. “I don’t like to be talked into anything. I don’t want to be cajoled.”

— Dennis Farina

Dennis Farina Quote: “I love England and the historical aspect of it.”

18. “I love England and the historical aspect of it.”

— Dennis Farina

Dennis Farina Quote: “You cant act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right.”

19. “You cant act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right.”

— Dennis Farina

Dennis Farina Quote: “This is my first experience working in a foreign movie, but the mechanics, I think, are pretty much the same all over; you still have to wait in the trailer.”

20. “This is my first experience working in a foreign movie, but the mechanics, I think, are pretty much the same all over; you still have to wait in the trailer.”

— Dennis Farina

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