Joe Mantegna
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1,285 appearances
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard Jul 2025
Joe Mantegna’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But as long as those are good roles and roles that I can embrace and say to myself,
I can do that.
And then there were times, believe me, when I was special before things started going well for me and I was trying out for bit parts, I would read them and it would be a role like in a sitcom where it was like, hey, oh, Jimmy, how you doing, Jimmy, Jimmy?
And as I walked in the audition, a couple of times I know I blew the audition because I'd look at the casting people, I'd say,
Okay, what level of, like, you know, of Rocky Balboa do you want me to be?
They look at me with this thing like, and I think, oh, they're not amused.
They don't want to be told that.
But I knew that's exactly what they wanted.
They wanted, like, hey, you, you, they wanted John Travolta in the TV show.
But it was okay.
I wasn't, like, offended because I thought that's Hollywood.
That's the way it goes.
It's a little of both.
The point is, the main thing was I was scared to death to do it, but then I was scared to death not to do it because of being offered it.
I thought, oh, God, it's my chance to play a guy I idolized.
But I thought, do I have it in me?
Can I fool people for two hours?
Oh, the whole thing and the look.
And so what I started to work on was I did all the research I could do.
I read, you know, autobiographies of him.
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