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Michael Imperioli
Michael Imperioli
American Actor
Born: Mar 26, 1966
Actor Me People Think Time You
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When I was young, you went to school, dealt with your friends and drama, went home, did your homework, went to bed, and started over the next day. But that social interaction that happens at school doesn't end now - it goes until the minute you go to bed and starts again when you wake up. Michael Imperioli
Day Home You School Wake Up Young Homework Starts Drama Minute Over Until Bed Dealt Go Wake End Up Friends Did Goes Interaction Happens Again Social Next Social Interaction Your Now Started
There's an intelligence that goes with being a good cop. Intuitiveness - they have to be actors; they have to have deductive reasoning, knowledge about a great deal of subjects. Michael Imperioli
Good Great Knowledge Intelligence Great Deal About Deal Subjects Goes Being Reasoning Actor Cop
But James Gandolfini and Edie Falco, they did such great work, especially in the last show. Michael Imperioli
Work Great Great Work Did James Show Last
In Britain you're more used to challenging drama. In America, TV is just boring, and numbing, and bloody terrible. Michael Imperioli
You Drama TV Boring More Terrible Bloody America Just Used Challenging Britain Numbing
I like working with people I know and feel a kinship to. Michael Imperioli
People Kinship Feel Like Know Working
Not to toot our own horn, but when 'The Sopranos' was on, it was as good as any movie that was coming out in the theater. I think that goes for a lot of shows today. Michael Imperioli
Today Good Own Think Our Out Horn Sopranos Coming Lot Goes Any Movie The Sopranos Theater Shows
I've been working professionally as an actor since I was 20. That's going to be 25 years soon. So, that's a veteran. That's a big-time veteran. I've had some great successes, and I've had some not-successes. Michael Imperioli
Great Veteran Some Had Soon Since Been Years Going Successes Working Professionally Actor
To be at acting school, it was kind of the first time you felt the freedom to be as much of yourself as you wanted. People weren't going to judge you. Michael Imperioli
Time Freedom You Yourself People Judge School First Kind Felt First Time Were Going Wanted Much Acting Acting School
I played guitar in a band from when I was about 20 for three years. Then I sang a little. Then I started getting really busy as an actor and forgot about it. Michael Imperioli
Guitar Three Band Busy About Years Getting Forgot Little Then Really Sang Actor Played Started
I've played some gangster roles, but that's obviously not me. When you're an Italian-American New York actor, it's just an easy way to get cast. Michael Imperioli
Me You Way Easy Easy Way Some Cast New Obviously Italian-American Get Roles York Just New York Gangster Actor Played
'Detroit 1-8-7' - the numbers are police slang for murder - is filmed in that blue-collar Michigan city, providing a flavor of authenticity. Detroit offers a unique visual landscape that tells the story of the city and what it's been through. Michael Imperioli
Police Tells Visual City Through Detroit Been Providing Authenticity Offers Michigan Blue-Collar Story Flavor Landscape Unique Slang Numbers
I'd go for parts that didn't pay a dime, and there would be 300 to 400 actors there. It could be very discouraging. To make it in this business, you have to have a kind of dumb sense that you're really good. You have to believe that someone is going to recognize that. Michael Imperioli
Good You Business Sense Pay Believe Dime Recognize Kind Would Would-Be Someone Could Make Parts Go Discouraging Dumb Very Going Really Actor
When you get made into the Mafia, they cut, prick your finger. And they take the blood and put it on the picture of a saint. Then they burn it. That's the Mafia induction ceremony. Michael Imperioli
You Made Picture Mafia Finger Take Put Saint Blood Get Burn Cut Then Ceremony Your
It doesn't really matter to me how people see me. Michael Imperioli
Me People Matter See How Really
My goal as an actor was just to be somebody very human. I'm not really interested in playing a character who is particularly cool and everything he does looks great and turns out great. Michael Imperioli
Great Character Somebody Everything Out He Particularly Looks Does Goal Very Human Just Interested Really Turns Who Cool Actor Playing
At one point, I got to work as an assistant for Martin Scorsese: He wanted to know about all the films coming out, so I would make clippings and put it all in a big scrapbook for him. I was also in charge of his video library - it was like a little video store, and his friends and colleagues would come and borrow films. Michael Imperioli
Work Library Big Films Colleagues Out Charge Would Borrow About Martin Martin Scorsese Point He Put Come Like Know Also Make Him Got Coming His Friends Scorsese Store Wanted Little Video Assistant
One of my early money mistakes was getting fired from the first acting job I ever had. I was cast in a play as the lead, and I got fired three nights after the open. Michael Imperioli
Money Job Three First Mistakes Nights Cast Fired Lead Open Had Got Getting After Acting Ever Play Early
I didn't start making a real living until eight or nine years in. Even after 'Goodfellas' came out, I was still working as a waiter, and people would recognize me - that was an odd experience. But when 'The Sopranos' hit, that was like an exponential leap. Michael Imperioli
Me Experience People Living Nine Recognize Out Would Like Until Sopranos Leap Making Real Still Came Odd Years Waiter Hit Eight After The Sopranos Working Exponential Even Start
I have a background writing screenplays and teleplays. I've tried to write prose and fiction but never really completed anything I thought worthy of publication or worthy of anyone else to even look at. Michael Imperioli
Writing Thought Else Background Completed Worthy Tried Write Never Prose Look Fiction Anyone Screenplays Anyone Else Anything Really Even Publication
There's a whole network of people, particularly in New York, obviously, that came up through the Spike Lee School. I'm one of them. That's big! Michael Imperioli
People School Big Spike Spike Lee Network Through New Particularly Obviously Came Lee Up York New York Them Whole
Spike Lee is not the first name you would probably think about redoing 'Oldboy.' Michael Imperioli
You First Think Spike Spike Lee Would About Name First Name Lee
I don't know if I would have had the same career had I not done 'GoodFellas.' Probably not. Would I have been cast on 'The Sopranos?' Who knows if there would have been a 'Sopranos?' Michael Imperioli
Would Cast Had Know Sopranos Knows Been Same Done The Sopranos Who Career
I would never put on a Mets hat. Only if I was playing a Met as part of the job. Which, actually, I did a long time ago. Michael Imperioli
Time Job Long Long Time Met Would Hat Only Never Part Put Long Time Ago Mets Did Which Actually Playing

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