James Gandolfini
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"James Joseph Gandolfini, Jr." was an American actor and producer.

Gandolfini was best known for his role as Tony Soprano, an American Mafia crime boss/boss in the HBO series The Sopranos. He garnered enormous praise for this performance, winning three Emmy Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and one Golden Globe Award for Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama/Best Actor in a Drama Series. His other notable roles included woman-beating mob henchman Virgil in True Romance (1993), enforcer and stuntman Bear in Get Shorty (film)/Get Shorty (1995), and impulsive "Wild Thing" Carol in Where the Wild Things Are (film)/Where the Wild Things Are (2009).

After finishing The Sopranos, Gandolfini produced the documentary Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq (2007), in which he interviewed injured Iraq War veterans. His second documentary, Wartorn: 1861–2010 (2010), analyzed the impact of posttraumatic stress disorder on soldiers and families throughout several Military history of the United States/wars in American history from 1861 to 2010.

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I was in bed, and I got the script and I was reading it, and I said, 'Man, this is really good, there's no way I'll get hired for this!'

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I just don't think I'm that interesting. I don't think what I have to say is that interesting. To hear me go blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I mean, who... cares?

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My father had a pat answer: I'm extremely proud of all my three children.

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I'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.

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I have a little bit of a temper, but it's ... a useless temper, ... It doesn't accomplish anything, generally. It's just a lot of ranting and raving and nothing, so David (Chase) probably saw that and put it into the character.

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Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make, ... The nice thing about my father is that he spent a lot of time with his children. We had a good time with my father.

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This is something different, something completely new. It is a much needed breath of fresh air.

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It was a big part of his life, ... He opened the school [as facilities director] in 1965. He would get there at 6 a.m.

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