Jake LaMotta Quotes
I always needed money when I was younger. I had different ways of getting it. A lot of the ways I don't like to talk about.
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I never thought that I would become a staple in the Australian cultural diet. The equivalent of bread or milk, or a fine old Tasmanian Mauve Vein. I think it's because I talk about things that people dare not mention. I don't mean raunchy things or unsavoury things. I call a spade a spade - I discuss things in a realistic manner.
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Most actors can't make any kind of living.
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The voice doesn't take a lot of effort now, but in the beginning it was hard to try to find a voice. The one I settled on was just easier to do for a half-hour.
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War is the greatest failure of mankind.
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I'm getting fat... because my size, I put on 20 or 30 pounds, it doesn't show very much... I'm thinking about going back to work out in a very short time.
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I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp.
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When a single author uploading his own books to Amazon can earn more money than a large N.Y. publisher exploiting both print and e-rights, there's something amiss.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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Politics is the womb in which war develops.
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.
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I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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There's a lot of females that hustle, just like men hustle.
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Whenever I read a script, I start recasting the role that I might play. I'm like, 'God, this should be played by Domhnall Gleeson, not me.'
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Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.
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As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!
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Taoism taught me to focus on the process and not to be attached to preconceived ideas of what I thought the outcome should be.
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Dieu des Juifs, tu l'emportes!
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Leaving was easy. It was everything else that was so damned hard.
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Some argue we should get coal, oil and gas out of the ground as quickly as possible, build more pipelines and make as much money as we can selling it here and abroad. Their priorities are the economy and meeting short-term energy needs so we can live the lives to which we've become accustomed.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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I always needed money when I was younger. I had different ways of getting it. A lot of the ways I don't like to talk about.
