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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."

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"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."

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Donna Grant

"Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else."

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Donna Grant

"If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress."

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Donna Grant

"Leno, Conan. They are both really funny. They really know how to land one."

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Donna Grant

"Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it."

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Donna Grant

"I walked in thinking, 'I have ten movies under my belt and now they want me to go back to making commercials?' I said, if I do that, I want it to be funny."

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Donna Grant

"It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music."

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Donna Grant

"This is going to sound really funny. I have a poster of Zac Efron on my wall! I think every girl has a poster of him in their room so, why not join the club!"

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Donna Grant

"People don't realize that I'm really funny and I'm an excellent bridge player."

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Donna Grant

"I come from a background of hanging out with friends and shooting videos with them, with funny stuff coming out of the group. I guess we got the same charge jocks get out of sports."

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Donna Grant

"I'm a sucker for a funny script. And then, as soon as I don't wanna be, one comes along and grabs me."

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Dominic Chianese
"The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language."

Comedy

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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."

Children

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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."

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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
"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."

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Dominic Chianese
"I went on tour in the play H.M.S. Pinafore."

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

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Dominic Chianese
"When I started really singing I was 17, 18 years old. I used to go around trying to be a singer in the Bronx. My knees would shake but I learned by doing."

Old

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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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