Top 55 The Sopranos Quotes

‘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.

If I have to read another cultural studies analysis of ‘The Sopranos,’ I give up. There’s an awful lot of rubbish around masquerading as cultural studies.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.’

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

‘The Sopranos’ only reflected the tenor of how things are done in New Jersey. They didn’t invent it. And I say that as a fan of both ‘The Sopranos’ and New Jersey.

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.’

On its surface, the HBO documentary series ‘Hard Knocks,’ about the New York Jets‘ training camp, resembles another HBO series, ‘The Sopranos.’ Both star the stout patriarch of a New Jersey ‘family‘ preoccupied with food, intimidation, and florid profanity.

’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.’

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.’

I watched ‘The Sopranos,’ I saw a couple of episodes of ‘Mad Men.’ I loved ‘Seinfeld.’ In fact, I got some CDs of ‘Seinfeld.’ ‘Seinfeld’ was hilarious. Oh, boy. The Nazi soup kitchen? ‘No soup for you!’

Our amour fou with ‘The Sopranos’ is headed for long-term parking, like so many of its most memorable characters. We’ll never see a show like this again.

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.

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.’

‘The Sopranos’ wardrobe people would sometimes go over there and just grab stuff off the racks, because B&G has that style that never ages. It’s like a ’50s or ’60s style. It fits me well.

There was certainly less profanity in the Godfather than in the Sopranos. There was a kind of respect. It’s not that I totally agreed with it, but it was a great piece of art.

‘The Sopranos’ all came down to the writing. I wouldn’t have been on for as long as I was if the writing weren’t so good.

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.’

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

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.

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

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

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.

When we were doing ‘The Sopranos’, I used to love that about it. There were rules, Mafia codes you had to go by, but the code is ridiculous. It’s a code among sociopaths.

Deathstroke,’ in my view, is a family drama. It’s like the ‘Sopranos’ with super villains.

I like to watch the Fox News Network. I like ‘Nightline.’ I like to watch ‘The Sopranos,’ of course. That is one of my favorite shows. ‘Entourage‘ is another one. I like ‘The Shield.’

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

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

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.’

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 done a big series like ‘Game of Thrones’ before. All I knew was that it was HBO, and I’d seen what they had done with ‘The Sopranos’ and ‘The Wire.’ But when I started reading the script, it was a no-brainer. Yes, yes, yes. Gold. Every time I turned the page.

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.

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 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.

‘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.

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

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