Best 20 quotes of Joe Mantegna on MyQuotes

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.

Dean Martin is one of my heroes.

For every Mother Teresa, there's a Jeffrey Dahmer.

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.

If humanity can exist for another million years, everybody's going to be a light shade of yellow-brown-red-tan.

If you're going to believe in a God, then you also have to equally believe that there's a flip side to this.

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

I mean, believe me, I'm not for censorship.

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.

I reached that day that I always thought might happen, where I say to myself I don't want to do this anymore. I'm looking for some stability. I want to stay home.

I think of being an actor as a blue-collar profession.

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

I wouldn't be surprised if some day, they put the Simpsons in the Smithsonian. It's become part of our culture, those characters.

That's why I like the scenes where we're just in the kitchen having breakfast, because it's the interaction between people. The chaos.

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

The actual time you're acting is miniscule compared to the time you're getting ready to do the work. The big difference on series television is, there's not a lot of hanging-out time. You're pumping those pages out, you're doing six, seven, eight pages a day. And I like that pace.

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

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

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

You can't bluff someone that's not paying attention.