Chazz Palminteri Quotes
My mom was Sicilian, my dad was Sicilian. Mom was a great cook, but all the women were.
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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I started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
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Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
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The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.
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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
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My son has taken liking for sports and is most of the time playing cricket and football. It is so much fun being with them, as I'm enjoying every phase of motherhood.
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The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.
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All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
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You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.
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I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.
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I could do a show with men; I'd love to do that, but it's women that I know and understand.
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I tried to do Kwanzaa with my family and was like, 'This sucks. What am I doing this for?' For me, I felt like I was doing it because I was trying to live up to someone else's idea of what 'black' was.
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I was on a Swedish soap opera when I was 10.
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Willem Dafoe and I are actually the same person.
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My mom was Sicilian, my dad was Sicilian. Mom was a great cook, but all the women were.
