This is gonna sound stupid, but I saw at one point that our mothers are ... bus drivers. No, they are the bus. See, they're the vehicle that gets us here. They drop us off and go on their way. They continue on their journey. And the problem is that we keep tryin' to get back on the bus, instead of just lettin' it go.
James GandolfiniI'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 GandolfiniThe Sopranos all came down to the writing. I wouldn't have been on for as long as I was if the writing weren't so good.
James GandolfiniI dabbled a little bit in acting in high school and then I forgot about it completely. And then at about twenty-five I went to a class. I don't think anybody in my family thought it was an intelligent choice. I don't think anybody thought I'd succeed, which is understandable. I think they were just happy that I was doing something.
James Gandolfini