Dom DeLuise Quotes

When I was 14 years old, I decided I could cook. It was either that or puberty.

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• When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Great
  • Father
  • Fear

• I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• One of the things I love about acting is that I can enter into these other people's lives. But going back to being me at the end of the day is very important, too. That process of remembering who I am.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • People
  • Things
  • Acting

• Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.

  

  Imran Amed
  • People
  • Done
  • Day

• George W. Bush is long gone, and with him the idea that 'Israel can do no wrong.'

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Long
  • Idea
  • Israel

• We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Energy
  • Day
  • Focus

• I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Writing
  • Attention
  • Explore

• Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • Good
  • Democracy

• You have to push yourself when you're older because it's very easy to fall into the trap. You start to fall apart - you just have to do your best to paste yourself together. I think doing things and being active is very important. When your mind is busy, you don't hurt so much.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Together

• As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Work
  • Better
  • Whiskey

• In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • America
  • Latin
  • Even

• Only in America could you get away with the kind of comedy I did.

  

  Pat Morita
  • America
  • You
  • Comedy

• Their crew for 'Arrow' is just one of the most wonderful crews that I've worked with. I know that actors say that all the time, and it sounds like trash coming out of my own mouth, but it's so true.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Time
  • True
  • Know

• I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Country
  • History
  • Gay

• New York has a deep culture of house and dance music, and to be able to tap into that is my way of shutting off. I go to friends' parties and local spots around the area: places I can go to, have a dance, and forget about being an actor and the attention.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Music
  • Friends
  • House

• There were times when we didn't have hot water or a phone line. But I guarantee you, we always had cable, and it was always on.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • You
  • Water
  • Phone

• I'm obsessive. I want to know the answer to how good I am. Most people aren't.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Answer
  • Obsessive

• Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Age
  • Take
  • Tragic

• 'In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child,' says good old Santa Claus; and if he had his way the children would all be beautiful, for all would be happy.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • World
  • Good
  • Children

• My thing is related to who I am as a person. The clothes are an extension of me. The music is an extension of me. All my businesses are part of the culture, so I have to stay true to whatever I'm feeling at the time, whatever direction I'm heading in. And hopefully, everyone follows.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Time
  • Music
  • True

• Let my temptation be a book, which I shall purchase, hold and keep.

  

  Eugene Field
  • Book
  • Temptation
  • Hold

• Let me fall. Let me climb. There's a moment where fear and dream must collide.

  

  Josh Groban
  • Dream
  • Fear
  • Collide

• I welcome newcomers to cons, or 'con-virgins' as I like to call them, by saying 'Welcome to the 'Supernatural' Circus,' and I mean it. We take pride as a cast to deliver a show that not only entertains the fans but ourselves, Creation Entertainment, and everyone involved on both sides.

  

  Matt Cohen
  • Pride
  • Supernatural

• When I was 14 years old, I decided I could cook. It was either that or puberty.

  

  Dom DeLuise