Top 40 The Sopranos Quotes

I can’t say I have enough experience with Hollywood to feel that I’ve encountered racism there. I can tell you that I did about five fruitless years of auditioning for voiceovers where I did variations on tacos and Latin accents, and my first screen role was as a bellhop on ‘The Sopranos.’

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?’

More and more, you’re seeing television shows that are better than 99% of the movies out there. I mean, you watch something like the last couple of seasons of ‘The Sopranos,’ which is some of the most sophisticated writing I’ve ever seen filmed and some of the best filmmaking I’ve ever seen – and it’s a TV show.

Between ‘The Godfather,’ ‘The Sopranos,’ ‘Goodfellas,’ and the countless other mob stories that have been both critically and commercially acclaimed over the years, it’s not hard to see why a game like ‘Mafia Wars’ works.

I’ve never seen ‘Mad Men.’ I’ve never seen ‘Breaking Bad.’ I’ve never seen ‘The Sopranos.’ These sort of seminal shows.

I’d seen ‘The Sopranos,’ but I wasn’t a faithful viewer because I can’t handle it.

The first thing I went out for was ‘The Sopranos’ and I got it, so that’s how it happened. I hate to say it like that because I wait for calls now.

In ‘The Sopranos,’ these guys know their best years are behind them. They have nostalgia for their old traditions. In their minds, they’re looking for a time when loyalty mattered, community mattered. E Street is about community, too. People are looking for something real.

I still think, most of the time, when people called shows like ‘The Sopranos’ or ‘Deadwood’ ‘art’ that they were correct.

’24’ and 20th Century Fox and Sky TV are not responsible for training the U.S. military. It is not our job to do. To me, this is almost as absurd as saying, ‘The Sopranos’ supports the mafia, and by virtue of that, HBO supports the mafia.’

To me, ‘Transparent’ is one of the best family dramas since ‘The Sopranos.’

The best TV is always about family, whether it’s ‘All in the Family,’ or ‘The Sopranos’ or ‘The Flintstones.’

When I read the pilot of ‘The Sopranos,’ I wasn’t terribly blown away by it.

I can’t actually believe how good ‘The Sopranos’ is. I genuinely am dumbfounded by it. It’s like when you realize how good The Beatles are, and you think, ‘How did they do that?’

If you think about the traditional mafia stories we grew up on, it is always about the death of criminal organisations – things like the ‘Sopranos’ – the last vestiges of once proud families subsumed by the modern era.

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.

I didn’t watch T.V. from the time I was 18 ’til my mid-30s. And then I got a T.V. to watch ‘The Sopranos.’ I realized, ‘Oh, T.V. is really interesting.’

The scripts of ‘The Wire’ are fantastic – the scripts of ‘Breaking Bad,’ the scripts of ‘Mad Men,’ the scripts of ‘The Sopranos,’ the scripts of ‘Battlestar Galactica.’ You could keep going on. They’re incredibly well written.

I like watching American TV shows like ‘The Sopranos,’ ‘Game of Thrones,’ etc. I also like to watch dance reality shows since I love to dance, even though I haven’t been trained in dancing.

We’re seeing TV series that are as good as movies were in the ’70s and ’80s – shows like ‘The Wire,’ ‘The Sopranos’ and ‘Breaking Bad.’

‘The Sopranos,’ for instance, is arguably the best cable show of all time. They could have made a movie, but that show ended so perfectly, it would almost be a disadvantage to make a movie like that. Then again, if you made a ‘Sopranos’ movie, people would be lined around the block to go see it.

I’m not one of these people who say how much better American drama is than English. I find it mostly too American, except for The Sopranos, which I think is the best thing.

I didn’t start making a real living until eight or nine years in. Even after ‘Goodfellas’ came out, I was still working as a waiter, and people would recognize me – that was an odd experience. But when ‘The Sopranos’ hit, that was like an exponential leap.

Personally, I don’t think we could do such a show if we didn’t get along. The subtext of all this is that we’re women in a show so we can’t possibly get along. It’s not like they write about The Sopranos like that.

It frustrates me that Britain can’t make something like ‘CSI’ or ‘The Sopranos’. Instead, British TV puts soap in primetime while every other civilized nation leaves it in daytime. Viewers should be more demanding.

‘The Wire’s definitely one of them. ‘The Sopranos’ is one of my all-time favorites. Those are two big ones for me.

If something sticks around long enough that it makes it to seasonal D.V.D. release, I’ll watch it. That’s how I watched ‘The Sopranos’.

‘The Sopranos’ is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, bad jokes – infantile, adolescent stuff, but it makes me laugh.

I really loved the ‘Sopranos’ but didn’t have HBO. So someone would send me tapes of the show with three or four episodes. I would watch one episode and go: ‘Oh my God, I’ve got to watch one more.’ I’d watch the whole tape and champ at the bit for the next one.

I remember turning ‘The Sopranos’ on once and within two minutes nearly throwing a brick through the screen.

The way that Dickens structured his books has a form that we most readily recognize now from, say, the great T.V. series, like ‘The Wire’ or ‘The Sopranos.’ There’s one central plot line, but then from that spin off all kinds of subplots.

When I was doing ‘The Sopranos’, I liked putting music together with the film; that was my favorite part of it.

Very often at the end of ‘The Sopranos’ you get the feeling that its not under control, you should be very worried, and life is kind of really, really messed up at lot of times. It leaves you feeling very disconcerted. That was kind of the point of it.

I never watched ‘The Godfather’ and it seems too late now. The same happened with ‘The Sopranos,’ ‘The Wire’ and ‘Peaky Blinders.’ I don’t know if they can be compared but they feel to me like they had a lot of male violence that I’m not massively into.

I think that the difference between ‘The Sopranos’ and the shows that came before it was that it was really personal. There had been a lot of dramas, a lot of really good ones, a lot of really bad ones, but they were always franchise shows about cops, or doctors, or lawyers. They weren’t about the writer himself.

My character on ‘The Sopranos’ was specific to being a single mother and being from Jersey. And being part of that season finale… wow. That show is always going to be world-renowned and iconic.

It’s a cliche to say this now, but to me, ‘The Sopranos’ is like Dickens. It’s able to take this very focused look at something but make it epic and profound.

It’s funny – I was a big fan of ‘The Sopranos.’ It became kind of a threat to ‘The X-Files’ in a way because they could play with language, character, and story in ways that we never could because of the limitations of network television.

I am box-set girl; I buy into those big American series like ‘The Sopranos’ and ‘Heroes.’

I’m not sure sometimes if it was because Will was gay or it was a sitcom. But that combination does make it hard to become the new lead on the ‘Sopranos.’