Jake LaMotta Quotes
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When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.
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Everybody has their struggles.
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People make mistakes. They say stupid things.
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I wasn't pampered the way a Tyrone Power was.
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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
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My first celebrity crush... I had a huge crush on 'Cheetara' from 'ThunderCats.'
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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Penso che una vita per la musica sia una vita spesa bene ed รจ a questo che mi sono dedicato.
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Every child in America deserves high-quality health care.
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Liquid helium belongs to a class of fluids known as quantum fluids, as distinct from classical fluids.
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I think 'A Serious Man' is genius.
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Time rolls his ceaseless course.
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I was tough at a very young age, where I was just fighting all the time.
