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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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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The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.
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Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac.
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The truth was, I needed to impress them. I knew from my previous discussions with Ben that you needed money or brains to get into the University. The more of one you had, the less of the other you needed.
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I knew what it was like growing up in a world where I never saw myself in anything.
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No matter what happens in a child's home, no matter what other social and economic factors may impede a child, there's no question in my mind that a first-rate school can transform almost everything.
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Paradoxically, the man who has failed and one who is at the peak of success are in exactly the same position. Each must decide what he will do next, choose the course that will lead him to the future.
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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.
