Danny Aiello Quotes

The choreographer for the Milton Berle show wanted me to audition. I walked away from that.

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• I wanted to make it a really strong point to not watch 'Battlestar Galactica' before starting 'Caprica' because I was afraid it was going to give me a lot of pressure and preconceived notions of what it was going to be like.

  

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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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• Personally, I believe people who have a lots of memories are people who are living with zest.

  

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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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• Iuravit in mea verba tota Italia.

  

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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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• I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.

  

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• When in your last hour (think of this) all faculty in the broken spirit shall fade away, and sink into inanity - imagination, thought, effort, enjoyment - then will the flower of belief, which blossoms even in the night, remain to refresh you with its fragrance in the last darkness.

  

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• I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world.

  

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• The choreographer for the Milton Berle show wanted me to audition. I walked away from that.

  

  Danny Aiello