Danny Aiello Quotes
People call me an instinctive actor. I used to consider that an insult early on, only because I had never studied. Now... I love it.
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.
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It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.
Garry Kasparov -
I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.
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A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman.
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I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
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Criticism always seemed to me a lot like police work. You look for clues, fingerprints, motives. You need to construct an airtight case.
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War is like a monster," he says, almost to himself. "War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows and grows." He's looking at me now. "And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.
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My desire has always been to be the leader in an industry.
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As ecstatic as I was at the birth of my daughter, I felt selfish bringing her, and later my son, into our screwed-up world.
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You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream, you've got to get out there and make it happen yourself.
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My greatest fear about a world in which racial reassignment surgery becomes common is that it then becomes an expression of all kinds of class privilege. You have a truly dystopian society divided between the people who can afford to be racially altered and perfected and the ones who can't.
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People call me an instinctive actor. I used to consider that an insult early on, only because I had never studied. Now... I love it.
