I'd love to live in New Orleans. I love the freedom of it - for good and for bad.

- James Gandolfini

I love hearing people laugh.

- James Gandolfini

I find I have to be the sad clown: laughing on the outside, crying on the inside.

- James Gandolfini

I don't think I will do a Mafia character again. I want to get away from the violence a little bit, because it is starting to bother me personally.

- James Gandolfini

You know my feelings: every day is a gift. It's just, does it have to be socks?

- James Gandolfini

I've been very lucky, considering what I look like and what I do.

- James Gandolfini

People don't know and they shouldn't know that you work incredibly hard as an actor.

- James Gandolfini

Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.

- James Gandolfini

Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living.

- James Gandolfini