Danny Aiello Quotes
The choreographer for the Milton Berle show wanted me to audition. I walked away from that.
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I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.
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When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting.
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We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with 'Shooting Fish.' Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.
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Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.
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This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.
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Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.
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I've figured out what to do with my hands... onstage. I'm a percussion player, so I grab a tambourine as much as I can.
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Come to think of it, the way I play is like a drum machine- very mechanical.
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I got into the whole Ayurvedic thing. It was really cool.
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Iuravit in mea verba tota Italia.
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If you're allowed to make your mistakes, I think you should. But people don't really like hearing you admit them. Although I'd never wanted to dump on the musicians that were involved in that.... Because it was not their fault.
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A man was desired to rise from bed, because the sun was already risen. To which he replied: 'If I had as far to go, and as much to do as he has, I should be risen by now; but having but a little way to go, I shall not rise yet.'
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Imagine your son becomes your guardian, no matter my capabilities as a woman, I am still enslaved to somebody else. Freedom for me is to live with dignity, and if my dignity and freedom is controlled by a man, I will never be free.
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Di voce in voce e d'una in altra orecchiaIl grido e 'l bando per la terra scorse.
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The kibbutz way of life is not for everyone. It is meant for people who are not in the business of working harder than they should be working, in order to make more money than they need, in order to buy things they don't really want, in order to impress people they don't really like.
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There was a whole slew of 'Cops and Robbersons,' just films that didn't measure up, that didn't stand for anything comedically. They were purely for a paycheck.
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My profession is about as far away from growing up in southern Illinois as you can get.
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At least 80 percent of the success of the football team is determined by the fight and spirit that they put into their play.
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I don't always understand my characters. I write to understand them better.
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If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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We made music seated on the grass of Brasilia's super-squares, at home, at college. It was a creative time, more ingenuous, when the people amused more themselves, played more.
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The choreographer for the Milton Berle show wanted me to audition. I walked away from that.
