Top 66 Sopranos Quotes

My first proper credit was a small voice-over on an episode of ‘The Sopranos’ when I was, like, 11 or 12.

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

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.

I personally think ‘Power’ is much more similar to ‘The Sopranos’ in that it deals with a character who is leading a double life and wants to become legitimate.

‘The Sopranos’ was a very East Coast show; ‘Heroes’ is more organically global.

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’.

I was a huge ‘Sopranos’ fan, obviously.

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?’

Ms. Sciorra is a member of a dwindling fleet of actors who actually sound like they come from somewhere. In her case, ‘somewhere’ is Brooklyn. In most movies, and perhaps especially in a handful of singeing ‘Sopranos’ episodes, ‘somewhere’ makes her vital. She’s what you’d call an around-the-way girl.

I was very lucky with ‘The Sopranos.’

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.

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.’

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 had some experience when I joined ‘The Sopranos’ in the last season. My character married Christopher, and everyone loved Adriana. I knew what it was like to join a very beloved, secretive show and following a very iconic character.

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.

I did 10 years on ‘Sopranos,’ but the whole craft of acting is relatively new to me. I’m still learning that, and I’ll be learning that forever.

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?’

And then you have the classical ballerinas, they’re like sopranos. Applied to the dance.

I wanted to play a good guy after doing this lunatic on The Sopranos for two years. And then they did the sequel to Bad Boys, where I get to play the barking captain again.

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

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.’

Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and ‘long-form development’ that filmmakers didn’t have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like ‘The Sopranos.’

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.’

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.

Being on ‘The Sopranos’ definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of ‘Mad Men.’

I started acting in ‘The Sopranos’ around 1999 and 2000. I did that for six years. That was quite a job, and I loved it.

’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.’

Coming off ‘Sopranos’ and ‘Mad Men,’ I was starting to feel like I was being spoiled creatively. I wanted to move forward as a director in TV and get more involved in the process. After having those two great experiences, doing regular episodic TV wouldn’t be quite the thrill.

There’s nothing funnier for me than taking two characters and throwing them into a pressure cooker and letting them turn on each other. Especially if they already tend to be loud, aggressive, alpha types. That’s sort of everything from ‘The Honeymooners’ to ‘Goodfellas’ to ‘The Sopranos.’

‘Sopranos’ was a fascinating moment, just catching our whole culture by surprise, a fun ride to be on while I’m learning the craft.

‘Heroes’, ‘Desperate Housewives’, ‘The Sopranos’ – they’re all very stylised. ‘The Wire’ is much more rooted in realism and honesty. In American television, I can’t think of anything I’d rather have been in because it has got something to say and that is the kind of thing I want to do.

It’s people politics, people dynamics that make a show really good, whether it’s ‘Desperate Housewives’ or ‘Lost’ or ‘The Sopranos.’ It’s the people we’ve grown to love or otherwise.

The government itself is running exactly like the Sopranos and they sit back and they make deals. And they say okay, ‘I’m going do this: France, you’re getting the pipelines.’

I think that ‘The Sopranos’ uses music incredibly well.

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

‘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 don’t know anyone who curses the way they do on the Sopranos. Not in an Italian household. I never said the word hell in front of my mother.

One FBI agent told us early on that on Monday morning, they would get to the FBI office, and all the agents would talk about ‘The Sopranos’, having the same conversation about the show, but always from the flip side.

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.

Like ‘Twin Peaks,’ ’24,’ ‘Mad Men,’ and ‘The Sopranos’ before it, ‘Downton Abbey’ enriches the iconography and collective lore of pop culture. It replenishes the stream.

HBO churn out some unbelievable stuff. They really got me with things like ‘Band of Brothers.’ But you can’t beat ‘The Sopranos.’

I wrote for ‘The Sopranos’ and worked on big, blustery characters for quite a while.

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

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.

If you look at ‘The Sopranos,’ there’s this notion of a criminal element on its last legs.

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 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.

With TV season structures – and I’m a huge TV watcher – you look at shows like ‘Breaking Bad,’ which is my favorite show of all time, and ‘The Sopranos,’ which is pretty high up there as well, and there was that thing where, every season, Walter White would go up a level, but there would be a new bad.

I’ve seen every episode of ‘Sopranos.’

If you see the Sopranos, you’re not going to be speaking in the Shakespearean English.

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.

They’re naughty, all those writers – they mess around with people. I know James Gandolfini got a bit fed up on ‘The Sopranos’: if he said anything in front of a writer, told them a story from his life, it could make its way into the script.

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.