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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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"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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Akiroq Brost

"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

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"A wise woman protects her kids. A wiser woman hangs out with police officers, retired FBI agents and private investigators."

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Akiroq Brost

"Family gathersto share good noise and good food.Gratitude abounds."

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Akiroq Brost

"My mother is my doctorCaring for me when am illI will love her forever tillWe are gone to our creator!"

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"Her metaphors for her children included barnacles encrusting a ship and limpets clinging to a rock."

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Akiroq Brost

"Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit."

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Akiroq Brost

"If I would be made come to earth again, I would ask for the same mother again. If made to return 100 times to earth, I would request to be born through the same mother 100 times!"

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"A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world."

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Akiroq Brost

"Children can see the beatitudes in nature."

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"You don't build a family by tearing down another one."

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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
"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."

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

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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
"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."

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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
"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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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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