Joe Mantegna quotes

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)
For every Mother Teresa, there's a Jeffrey Dahmer.
Joe Mantegna
I've spent the better part of the last twenty-five years doing a lot of traveling.
Joe Mantegna
There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers.
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
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 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
I'm in the wrong racket if I didn't want a public life.
Joe Mantegna
They put me in the drama class, and that's the path I've taken.
Joe Mantegna
There are a lot of people who will come to me for advice or whatever. (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
I did plays and movies and whatever all over the place.
Joe Mantegna
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.
Joe Mantegna
Dean Martin is one of my heroes.
Joe Mantegna
But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways.
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
That's why I really don't play cards or gamble. Because I'd crack.
Joe Mantegna
I mean, believe me, I'm not for censorship.
Joe Mantegna