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Dominic Chianese

"My father was an American who could cuss in Italian and make an aria out of it. It was wonderful to watch. But then again, he was a Gemini. I believe in that stuff."

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Akshay Vasu

"I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job."

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Akshay Vasu

"My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that."

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Akshay Vasu

"My father is the jailhouse. My father is your system... I am only what you made me. I am only a reflection of you."

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Akshay Vasu

"I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father."

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Akshay Vasu

"The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and dad were with me, then we all went to pieces. I was saying, No, I've got my flight to Sydney in two hours. I'm getting on a plane."

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Akshay Vasu

"My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker."

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Akshay Vasu

"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."

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Akshay Vasu

"Dad bought me a toy drum one Christmas, and I eventually destroyed it. I wanted a real drum and he bought me a snare drum. Dad continued to buy me one drum after the other."

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Akshay Vasu

"I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living."

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Akshay Vasu

"I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me."

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Dominic Chianese
"I went to Brooklyn College and met this beautiful Jewish girl named Merle, with dark hair, exotic looking and brilliant. So we got married and had three children."

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Dominic Chianese
"My father was an American who could cuss in Italian and make an aria out of it. It was wonderful to watch. But then again, he was a Gemini. I believe in that stuff."

Father

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Dominic Chianese
"I had to audition for the part of Jnior, and I wanted the role terribly because I knew it was a great character. This guy is a wonderful, funny, mean old guy."

Funny

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Dominic Chianese
"They would wake me up when I was sleeping, and say sing a song for our friends. I had a sweet voice, I had a nice little tenor voice. God knows what I sang, but my whole family would admire me."

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Dominic Chianese
"I tried to become a family man. I got married, but it didn't work out. After 22 months we got an annulment. Then I married an Italian girl, which resulted in an immediate annulment. I had two annulments by the time I was 23."

Family

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Dominic Chianese
"I think Pirandello had something to say to people about what truth really is."

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Dominic Chianese
"For TV I don't think I could have gotten a better part than Uncle Junior because of the intimacy of the character based on David Chase's brilliant writing."

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Dominic Chianese
"Uncle Junior is a criminal, which makes him a villain, so it makes people want to watch him. My whole life as an actor has been preparing for something like this."

Life

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Dominic Chianese
"I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them."

Mother

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Dominic Chianese
"The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I've seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic."

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