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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Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.
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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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Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can't have any regrets.
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In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.
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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 like fashion, but I love, love, love music and film; they are my two passions. I would love to pursue my acting and my love of music more than anything.
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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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I get to enter into the world the director has created: to live these different lives on top of my own life.
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Working in theater, film, or television are three different jobs for an actor, and I accept them as such.
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Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people are sort of wanting to see more uplifting sorts of things.
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Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs.
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'I have a headache' 'You can't get headaches' 'So you're fond of telling me.'
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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.
