Michael Imperioli

Actor

1966-03-26

Books by Michael Imperioli

Woke up This Morning
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The Perfume Burned His Eyes
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The Nicotine Chronicles
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Quotes by Michael Imperioli

I do smoke in real life. A lot. We're all smoking right now in fact.
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When I was young, you went to school, dealt with your friends and drama, went home, did your homework, went to bed, and started over the next day. But that social interaction that happens at school doesn't end now - it goes until the minute you go to bed and starts again when you wake up.
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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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Spike Lee is not the first name you would probably think about redoing 'Oldboy.'
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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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Not to toot our own horn, but when 'The Sopranos' was on, it was as good as any movie that was coming out in the theater. I think that goes for a lot of shows today.
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John Ventimiglia, who was on 'The Sopranos,' was in my first acting class and we have been friends since that time. Alec Baldwin was in my class back then, Sean Young and Andrew McCarthy.
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Back 20 years ago, there was a division between movie actors and TV actors. That's kind of gone away. People who have had a lot of success in movies in the past now want to be on TV. There used to be much more of a quality division between TV and movies, and that's kind of not the case anymore.
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I've been working professionally as an actor since I was 20. That's going to be 25 years soon. So, that's a veteran. That's a big-time veteran. I've had some great successes, and I've had some not-successes.
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There's too many actors in LA. I mean, I'll go out there from time to time, but I always find it pretty soul-destroying. I don't drive, and the people kind of rub me the wrong way. It's just not home. You know? It's not New York. It's not... my town.
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