Joe Mantegna
Joe Mantegna

You talk to the real cops and they say ninety percent of it is paperwork.

Joe Mantegna
Joe Mantegna

When I played Dean Martin, he was dead when we made the movie but there would have been nothing better than to spend a week with Dean Martin if I could have.

Joe Mantegna
Joe Mantegna

They put me in the drama class, and that's the path I've taken.

Joe Mantegna
Joe Mantegna

Dean Martin is one of my heroes.

Joe Mantegna
Joe Mantegna

But what I will do is I'll acknowledge it and if it can be of any help the fact that I do acknowledge it then maybe other people will benefit from it because I do have somewhat of a public forum being in the line of work I am.

Joe Mantegna
Joe Mantegna

I'm in the wrong racket if I didn't want a public life.

Joe Mantegna
Joe Mantegna

There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers.

Joe Mantegna
Joe Mantegna

If at the end of the day, people look at it and say, oh, yeah, I liked his stuff, or for the most part I liked his stuff, or I've enjoyed watching some of the things he's done, that's all I can hope for.

Joe Mantegna
Joe Mantegna

There's now a Fat Tony doll, which cracks me up. But you feel honored that they asked you to do a voice.

Joe Mantegna
Joe Mantegna

When they were small and my wife really had no other responsibilities, except taking care of the family and all of us, it wasn't that big a deal. It was fun. Hey, we're going to Moscow. We're going to Italy. We're going to Toronto. We're going to New York.

Joe Mantegna
Joe Mantegna

For the last thirty years in my career I never know what I'm doing next.

Joe Mantegna
Joe Mantegna

I'm a character actor so I've jumped around to all kinds of things.

Joe Mantegna
Joe Mantegna

Whenever you're going to play a real person, you run the risk of well, everybody in the world kind of has an image of what that person is and who he should be and so you really have to do your homework.

Joe Mantegna
Joe Mantegna

You learn that not all things fall into a certain kind of pattern that can be predictable and that can be understandable and that's going to be easy, you know.

Joe Mantegna
Joe Mantegna

I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can.

Joe Mantegna
Joe Mantegna

There are a lot of people who will come to me for advice or whatever.

Joe Mantegna
Joe Mantegna

You know the way I play golf, it's a good I do these things for charities.

Joe Mantegna
Joe Mantegna

That's why I really don't play cards or gamble. Because I'd crack.

Joe Mantegna
Joe Mantegna

I've spent the better part of the last twenty-five years doing a lot of traveling.

Joe Mantegna
Joe Mantegna

I've loved it, but I have a wife and two children.