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When I read the pilot of 'The Sopranos,' I wasn't terribly blown away by it.
- Michael Imperioli
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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
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Detroit is a city that really stands out. It's been through a very difficult time. There's been a lot of pain here, and the city, physically, has suffered. You can see it in certain neighborhoods, and there's buildings downtown that have been abandoned.
- Michael Imperioli
#Buildings
#City
#Difficult
#Pain
#Time
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
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Back 20 years ago, there was a division between movie actors and TV actors. That's kind of gone away. People who have had a lot of success in movies in the past now want to be on TV. There used to be much more of a quality division between TV and movies, and that's kind of not the case anymore.
- Michael Imperioli
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#People
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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
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#Guitar
#Three
But James Gandolfini and Edie Falco, they did such great work, especially in the last show.
- Michael Imperioli
#Great Work
#Great
#Last
#Show
#Work
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
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#People
#School
#Time
#Yourself
When you're going through these difficult times of chaos and trauma, the most important thing is to keep those who are closest to you together.
- Michael Imperioli
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#Difficult
#Important
#Together
In Britain you're more used to challenging drama. In America, TV is just boring, and numbing, and bloody terrible.
- Michael Imperioli
#America
#Boring
#Drama
#More
#Terrible
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
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#Great
#Intelligence
#Knowledge
John Ventimiglia, who was on 'The Sopranos,' was in my first acting class and we have been friends since that time. Alec Baldwin was in my class back then, Sean Young and Andrew McCarthy.
- Michael Imperioli
#Acting
#Back
#First
#Time
#Young
In this world, there really is a law of cause and effect: You reap what you sow. Then energy you put out really does come back to you.
- Michael Imperioli
#Back
#Energy
#Law
#Reap
#World
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
#Easy
#Gangster
#Me
#New
#Way
I do smoke in real life. A lot. We're all smoking right now in fact.
- Michael Imperioli
#Life
#Real
#Right
#Smoke
#Smoking
My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what's important to me.
- Michael Imperioli
#Family
#Important
#Life
#Me
#My Life
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