American - Actor | March 26, 1966 -
'Pitchfork' said something like, 'Michael Imperioli wrote a book that sounds like Lou Reed fan fiction,' which maybe it is. It's fiction, and I'm a fan. But it's not about me, and it's not a Lou Reed book.
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I think a lot of people who didn't know my work before 'The Sopranos' think I came from the Jersey Shore, like they picked us out of the mall and put us on television.
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When I read the pilot of 'The Sopranos,' I wasn't terribly blown away by it.
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One of my early money mistakes was getting fired from the first acting job I ever had. I was cast in a play as the lead, and I got fired three nights after the open.
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In this world, there really is a law of cause and effect: You reap what you sow. Then energy you put out really does come back to you.
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I love fiction and read novels constantly.
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With screenplays and teleplays, they are mapped, really, in the blueprint of a finished product, which is something you're going to watch on a screen. But a book is an end to itself, really.
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I have a background writing screenplays and teleplays. I've tried to write prose and fiction but never really completed anything I thought worthy of publication or worthy of anyone else to even look at.
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There's a whole network of people, particularly in New York, obviously, that came up through the Spike Lee School. I'm one of them. That's big!
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Spike Lee is not the first name you would probably think about redoing 'Oldboy.'
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I don't know if I would have had the same career had I not done 'GoodFellas.' Probably not. Would I have been cast on 'The Sopranos?' Who knows if there would have been a 'Sopranos?'
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I like working with people I know and feel a kinship to.
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