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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Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.
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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 have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.
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I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
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On stage, you're not limited at all because you're free in language: language is the source of the imagination. You can travel farther in language than you can in any film.
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Let's not forget, Sarah Palin may not have a golden touch, but she gave Christine O'Donnell candidate a big touch that got her over the top.
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I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.
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You can have a lot of fun in a New York minute.But there's some things you can't do inside those city limits.Ain't no closing time, ain't no cover charge.Just country boys and girls gettin' down on the farm.
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I was tough at a very young age, where I was just fighting all the time.
