Quotes by Joe Mantegna

About Joe Mantegna:

Joseph Anthony "Joe" Mantegna, Jr is an American actor, producer, writer, director, and voice actor. He is best known for his roles in box office hits such as Three Amigos (1986), The Godfather Part III (1990), Forget Paris (1995), and Up Close & Personal (1996). He currently stars in the CBS television series Criminal Minds as FBI Supervisory Special Agent David Rossi. His daughter, Gia Mantegna, has also become a renowned actress.
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I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can.

Joe Mantegna

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...

Joe Mantegna

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.

Joe Mantegna

If at the end of the day, people look at it and say, oh, yeah, I liked his stuff, or for the most part I liked his stuff, or I've enjoyed watching some of the things he's done, that's all I can hope for.

Joe Mantegna

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

Joe Mantegna

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

Joe Mantegna

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

Joe Mantegna

I'm in the wrong racket if I didn't want a public life.

Joe Mantegna

For the last thirty years in my career I never know what I'm doing next.

Joe Mantegna

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

Joe Mantegna

Dean Martin is one of my heroes.

Joe Mantegna

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.

Joe Mantegna

There are a lot of people who will come to me for advice or whatever.

Joe Mantegna

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

Joe Mantegna

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.

Joe Mantegna

When I played Dean Martin, he was dead when we made the movie but there would have been nothing better than to spend a week with Dean Martin if I could have.

Joe Mantegna

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

Joe Mantegna

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

Joe Mantegna

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

Joe Mantegna

I wouldn't be surprised if some day, they put the Simpsons in the Smithsonian. It's become part of our culture, those characters.

Joe Mantegna

Author Bio

  • NameJoe Mantegna
  • DescriptionAmerican actor, producer, writer, and director
  • BornNovember 13, 1947
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Voice Actor; Film Director; Screenwriter