More - Steve Schirripa Quotes

David Chase invented the Big Pussy rule, which is that no one lives forever. I would've bought something five years ago, but I thought they'd kill me.

Steve Schirripa

 

The book is set in 2005,

Steve Schirripa

 Books And Reading

But it's really about the Bensonhurst I knew growing up in the '60s and '70s. The Bensonhurst where the little old Italian ladies went out with their cart and shopped at seven stores along Bath Ave.

Steve Schirripa

 Growing Up

So I dipped into my childhood and came up with Nicky Deuce. I wanted him to get into a lot of mischief, like the time I taped a fork to a broom handle and cattle-rustled a steak off the barbecue of the next-door neighbor.

Steve Schirripa

 Childhood

There's already some movie interest, and this is the first of a series of books. In the next book, Nicky Deuce brings the Brooklyn gang to his New Jersey hometown and sets it on its ear.

Steve Schirripa

 Books And Reading

All I can tell ya is that Bobby is around pretty much and I'm still alive so far. There will be a few more funerals. That's all I can say.

Steve Schirripa

 

David is the show. There are other writers, but it's David's vision.

Steve Schirripa

 Vision

We always have a big dinner.

Steve Schirripa

 

It's really sad because besides losing the money and having to find work again, you're also leaving the greatest working situation you're ever going to get.

Steve Schirripa

 

At the beginning of the season you look at the front of the script, then you go straight to the back to make sure you're still on the show.

Steve Schirripa

 Beginning