“I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody get...” — Joe Mantegna Quote

“I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can.”

“But what I will do is I'll acknowledge it and if it can be of any help the fact that I do acknowledge it then maybe other people will benefit from it because I do have somewhat of a public forum being in the line of work I am.”

“You know the way I play golf, it's a good I do these things for charities.”

“Whenever you're going to play a real person, you run the risk of well, everybody in the world kind of has an image of what that person is and who he should be and so you really have to do your homework.”

“You talk to the real cops and they say ninety percent of it is paperwork.”

“There's now a Fat Tony doll, which cracks me up. But you feel honored that they asked you to do a voice.”

“We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.”

“Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.”

“The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it.”

“In an ideal world for me, school lunch would be free for everybody.”

“Until we are all free, we are none of us free.”

“In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.”