Paulie's "Whattaya hear? Whattaya say? is an Easter egg to 1938's Angels With Dirty Faces, one of the best gangster films ever made.

According to David Chase, the only time an actor ever convinced him to change a line of dialogue on The Sopranos was when Tony Sirico, deeply resentful that his character, Paulie, a mob captain ...

He was 79. Sirico’s Paulie Walnuts, a bombastic and ferociously funny foot soldier to James Gandolfini’s Tony Soprano with one-liners like no one else, was a “Sopranos” scene-stealer from ...

The “Goodfellas” star added: “He was a bit of a hypochondriac, he was kind of paranoid and kind of egotistical and like Paulie Walnuts and, that made for a lot of fun and funny moments.” ...

Don’t mess with Paulie Walnuts. Chris Diamantopoulos ... and the look on his face would be so incredibly laughable, and funny,” Chase, 79, told Rolling Stone after Sirico’s passing.

This is Paulie Walnuts.” I’m really gonna miss that ... just to make sure everyone in the room heard him being funny. Was that something you invented, or something Tony did?

Sirico portrayed "Paulie Walnuts" Gualtieri on the HBO series ... He was so uproarious, so funny, so talented. I’m very happy for him that in his mid-50s and 60s he finally learned how talented ...