I read the script and try not to bring anything personal into it. I make notes, talk to … - Dennis Farina

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It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray. . . We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to forsake it for fact. Such constancy is a defect in an historian.

Dennis Farina

I read the script and try not to bring anything personal into it. I make notes, talk to the director and we decide what kinds of shades should be in the character.

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I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.

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You cant act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right.

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I have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home.

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Writer-directors are a little bit more liberal, rather than having just the writer on the set, because I think sometimes the writer becomes too precious with the words. If you're a writer-director, you can see what you're doing and see your work in action, so I think you can correct it right there and still not compromise yourself.

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I know people who go back and check themselves, but it drives me crazy. Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case.

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