Jake LaMotta Quotes
I purposely lost a fight to Billy Fox because they promised me that I would get a shot to fight for the title if I did.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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I like seeing girls throw down.
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Don't forget to eat a lot of greens and fish oil pills. Those are two of the best things to keep your skin glowing.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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Religion is induced insanity.
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Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
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In the end, the actor's main power is the power to say, 'No.'
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Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
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'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.
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I didn't go to school a lot.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.
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I like new challenges and new experiences.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.
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I learned a tremendous amount about dialogue because I suffered as an actor.
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Every actor craves choice.
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To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodiment.
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There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.
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I appeared on a show with Jonathan Harris on it-the Bill Dana show-even before Lost In Space. Someone gave me a tape of it in the past year, but in all these years we hadn't remembered.
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You know, in each segment of ex-Yugoslavia, multi-ethnic life is lost, except I think we somehow still have this in Serbia.
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I purposely lost a fight to Billy Fox because they promised me that I would get a shot to fight for the title if I did.
