Dominic Chianese
Dominic Chianese
Dominic Chianeseis an American actor, singer, and musician. He is best known for his role as Corrado "Junior" Soprano on the HBO series The Sopranos, and Johnny Ola in The Godfather Part II...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth24 February 1931
CityBronx, NY
CountryUnited States of America
kids guy want
Im the kind of guy, when the marriage is breaking up, who doesnt want to yell in front of the kids. So I left, but it was very hard.
character mean guy
I had to audition for the part of Jnior, and I wanted the role terribly because I knew it was a great character. This guy is a wonderful, funny, mean old guy.
breaking front marriage yell
I'm the kind of guy, when the marriage is breaking up, who doesn't want to yell in front of the kids. So I left, but it was very hard.
uncle
There is a lot of me in Uncle Junior.
acting given handle
I had given up the acting to be a schoolteacher, but I just couldn't handle it, it was too much pressure. I couldn't handle the bureaucracy.
far involved money uncle
If you get involved with Uncle Junior's business, he'll have you killed if it's going to take money away from him. That's very far from me.
people truth
I think Pirandello had something to say to people about what truth really is.
play
I went on tour in the play H.M.S. Pinafore.
children italian ideas
I had no idea what they were saying in Italian as a child, they spoke too quickly on the radio. But I realized that language was very funny.
mother father grandparent
I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them.
song sweet nice
They would wake me up when I was sleeping, and say sing a song for our friends. I had a sweet voice, I had a nice little tenor voice. God knows what I sang, but my whole family would admire me.
men thinking play
I've always wanted to play Don Quixote in some way. It's a great role. I think the idealism of the man shows that hope that we have in the human breast to achieve something.
uncles father son
The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I've seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic.
radio comedy language
The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language.