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
I think all actors are supposed to be character actors.
I think first impressions are important when you pick up a script.
You can change a person's life in an instant; put him in a movie, and you start thinking differently, you want to be in another movie. It's like an addiction almost.
This is my first experience working in a foreign movie, but the mechanics, I think, are pretty much the same all over; you still have to wait in the trailer.
You cant act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right.
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.
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.
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.