Dominic Chianese Quotes

I had to audition for the part of Jnior, and I wanted the role terribly because I knew it was a great character. This guy is a wonderful, funny, mean old guy.

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• Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in a high speed chase.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • People
  • High
  • Think

• I'm very self-critical.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Very
  • Self-Critical

• Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Los Angeles
  • Angeles
  • Los

• Young people really want you to give them a road map, and they will follow it to a tee. If you tell them, 'These are the eight steps you have to take to be successful,' they will do all eight very earnestly.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Road
  • Successful

• If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Writing
  • Moving
  • Moving Forward

• Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Great
  • Attention
  • Health

• It's a blessing to have fans acknowledging your craft, period.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Period
  • Fans
  • Blessing

• When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Child
  • Uncle

• My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Done
  • Die
  • Myself

• Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Women
  • Career
  • Proud

• I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Life
  • School
  • Remember

• Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Wall

• Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • She
  • Black

• Something about 'Battlestar' that I didn't realize when I took the job was this whole bubble aspect of closing people in and seeing what they do.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Job
  • Closing

• The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • More
  • Now
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• Life is too short to be on a diet.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Life
  • Life Is Too Short

• Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Parents

• You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • People
  • Brain
  • Model

• I think it's the wrong way around to say, 'When you get older move to the country.' I think when you get older you move to New York.

  

  Elaine Stritch
  • Country

• Men live in glad obedience to the masters they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they wish to undermine.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Live

• Just be funny. Funny always goes over well, so try to think of something funny to break the ice rather than being weird or using pickup lines.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Funny
  • Weird

• I'd read one too many crime novels where the victim was just a name: body number one, dead woman number 12. I understood fear, and I wanted to create characters who made readers say, 'Please, don't hurt this guy.' That's the key to suspense. It's easy to disgust a reader. It's much harder to make them care.

  

  Mark Billingham
  • Guy
  • Fear
  • Hurt

• You’d think people would realize they’re bad at multitasking and would quit. But a cognitive illusion sets in, fueled in part by a dopamine-adrenaline feedback loop, in which multitaskers think they are doing great.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • People
  • Great
  • Bad

• I had to audition for the part of Jnior, and I wanted the role terribly because I knew it was a great character. This guy is a wonderful, funny, mean old guy.

  

  Dominic Chianese
  • Great
  • Character
  • Guy