JOE PANTOLIANO

Good actors are a dime a dozen, but I want actors that are gonna be part of my team and collaborative.

One thing that's great about being a character actor is that a movie doesn't rest on your shoulders. If it bombs, it won't hurt my career.

Actors always have opinions.

The greatest leading man, in my opinion, will always be Cary Grant.

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.

What the hell did I do in the 80's? Midnight Run. A perfect movie. Just a perfect movie.

It's all about people. It's all about the subjectivity of what people love.

The Moguls is a story about guys that have all grown up together and are now in their late 40s, early 50s.

I've been saying in the press that being a NY Post investigator reporter is an oxymoron.

I've been very successful doing voices in movies. I did Olive, the Other Reindeer, with Drew Barrymore, and I did Cats and Dogs. My children came to some of the sessions.

When we were making The Fugitive, we all thought it was going to bomb.

Let's face it, 80 percent of the work I do my kids can't see.

When I interview somebody, I look at their resume to see what they've done, who they've worked with, and how many times. If they've gotten repeat work. Those are the kinds of actors I want to hire.

In private some critics have come up to me afterwards and told me they honestly enjoyed the movie. Then they'd tell me that they're still going to have to write it up negatively.

When I got the script for Memento, I read it and I got killed off on page one and I fired my agent.

They actually bought me for Daredevil 2, but they have to exercise the option.

It's such a luxury to be able to be happy about going to work in the morning.

I think one of the geniuses of Bound and The Matrix and Memento is the complete collaboration of the effort. There were no rotten apples.

When you work for Bruckheimer, you don't get it any better. He's the ultimate producer. I've had the good fortune of working with some great producers over the years.

I don't like directors that just say, Stand there and now do this.

Living in the projects helped me with this role.

That's another reason I did Daredevil: I didn't get killed off in it.

We have to promote a movie. It's just extraordinary that everybody I'm talkin' to loves this movie.

We should do another 10 Bad Boys movies. I could come in in one of those electric wheelchairs, like Peter Sellers in Dr Strangelove, just shouting away.

I've been so good in so many movies that nobody saw.