Joe Mantegna

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

I've loved it, but I have a wife and two children.

I wouldn't be surprised if some day, they put the Simpsons in the Smithsonian. It's become part of our culture, those characters.

So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.

I studied international relations and economics at the University of Virginia. I paid my way by working as a bartender in the summer and at three part-time jobs during the year.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.