Dennis Farina
Dennis Farina
Dennis Farinawas an Italian-American actor of film and television and former Chicago police officer. He was a character actor, often typecast as a mobster or police officer. His most known film roles are those of mobster Jimmy Serrano in the comedy Midnight Run and Ray "Bones" Barboni in Get Shorty. He starred on television as Lieutenant Mike Torello on Crime Story and as NYPD Detective Joe Fontana on Law & Order. He also hosted and narrated a revived version of...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth29 February 1944
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
When too many people get their hands on things, they want to make it commercial, and they wanna do this, and they wanna do that.
Their football is not like our football, and I was asking Vinnie to explain cricket to me and he asked me to explain American football to him.
I had a brother who was an attorney, so my first intention was to go to law school. I wound up in the police department, and I loved it.
We keep monitoring ourselves, censoring ourselves, being too sensitive to this, too sensitive to that. We can't keep doing that.
Vince or Brad or Benicio would say, Maybe we should try this, and Guy was open to changes.
When they released Sidewalks of New York, there were some shots with the towers they were going to take out, and Ed told them no. I don't think they can deny the towers were a part of New York.
You can't act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right.
This generation of filmmakers is very good. They're seasoned, for some reason.
The cast was huge, but I never saw anybody.
Usually you're in movies with a lot of dissolves and things, but this was kind of quick, more jarring than usual. I thought it would be fun to be in a movie that's unconventional. Then I met Guy and I liked him. I think he's a good man.
The British have slang words, as we do, but it was fun.
When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn't know what the story was about or anything.
I have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home.
Do whatever you're directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director.