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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I've got so many clothes; I can dress in any style.
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My first attempt at real music was when I was 13. My first signed band was when I was 21; that failed. I got another deal at 26; that failed, and then I was broke.
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On the France's Indochina involvement: 'They were engaged in the most dangerous of all activities – deceiving themselves...France was engaged in a task beyond her strength, indeed, beyond the strength of any external power unless it was acting in support of the dominant local will and purpose.'
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We are a big country, with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time... to ask for an effort in the battle against debt.
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I was tough at a very young age, where I was just fighting all the time.
