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Joe Mantegna
November 13, 1947 -
Nationality: American
Category: Actor
Subcategory: American Actor

Dean Martin is one of my heroes.

   

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

   

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

   

I've loved it, but I have a wife and two children.

   

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

   

But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways.

   

You talk to the real cops and they say ninety percent of it is paperwork.

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

When they were small and my wife really had no other responsibilities, except taking care of the family and all of us, it wasn't that big a deal. It was fun. Hey, we're going to Moscow. We're going to Italy. We're going to Toronto. We're going to New York.

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

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.

   

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.

   

Whenever you're going to play a real person, you run the risk of well, everybody in the world kind of has an image of what that person is and who he should be and so you really have to do your homework.

   

You learn that not all things fall into a certain kind of pattern that can be predictable and that can be understandable and that's going to be easy, you know.

   

I did plays and movies and whatever all over the place.

   

You know the way I play golf, it's a good I do these things for charities.

   

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