Burt Young (Gerald Tommaso DeLouise) Quotes

I used to be a fighter and I'm used to taking weight off.

Burt Young

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• I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it's a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I'm gonna do it whether it's hard or easy.

  

  Faith Ringgold
  • Trying
  • Love
  • Power

• My camps are always ten weeks. That's what makes me comfortable.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Me
  • Always
  • Comfortable

• I like Alexander McQueen's work a lot: he's always pushing boundaries, and he's rough around the edges.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Work
  • Always
  • Boundaries

• There is so much great talent in the underground, and electronic music is finally getting the props that it's deserved for so long. I feel like now that everyone is discovering it and it's so fresh sounding to so many people. It doesn't get any more rock n' roll than playing EDC or the Staples Center. It's really madness.

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• I am less comfortable saying I am a jeweller and more comfortable saying I am a story teller.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Comfortable
  • Teller
  • Jeweller

• My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • More
  • Consciousness
  • His

• I got out of grad school in 2000. I was about 26 years old. I've always said that I was late to acting because I didn't really start doing it in a focused way until I was in my early 20s.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • School
  • Acting
  • Start

• Most of my instruments are handmade.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • Most
  • Instruments
  • Handmade

• I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.

  

  Jack Steinberger
  • Feel
  • Learned
  • Students

• As someone who gets nervous in silences, I spill words rather than really think.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Think
  • Words
  • Nervous

• I love Africa.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Africa

• Mom and Dad were bibliophiles. Dad shared his father's love of westerns, Mom favored the likes of Zelazny and Heinlein, Howard and Burroughs. We owned several hundred books stored in trunks that comprised our portable library.

  

  Laird Barron
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Books

• Self-parody is the first portent of age.

  

  Larry McMurtry
  • Age
  • First

• There's only one race - it's human. We are all brothers and sisters.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Human
  • Race
  • Sisters

• Pleasant to bring back the divisions of a parish; Also pleasant to us the time of paradise. Pleasant, the moon, a luminary in the heavens; Also pleasant where there is a good rememberer.

  

  Taliesin
  • Time
  • Good
  • Moon

• The corporate Catch-22: Don't be flexible, lose good women; be flexible, lose good women... A company listening to women's desires for flexibility and therefore fewer promotions, giving fewer promotions to women, and then being sued for giving fewer promotions to women. Yiddish has a word for this: chutzpah.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Good
  • Women
  • Giving

• Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than Sargent thinks. But he went on to agree that impressionists had noted how strong

  

  Claude Monet
  • Great
  • Strong
  • Question

• In a different era, I would have called myself a natural philosopher. All my life, I have enjoyed the reputation of being someone who disrupted prevailing ideas. Now that I'm in my 80th year, I can play on my age and provoke people even more.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Wise

• It'd be very difficult to cast me as a ballet dancer. Everybody is, in some sense, controlled by their size and their gender. I'm not going to be allowed to play the part that Denzel Washington plays.

  

  Brian Dennehy
  • Ballet

• ...sometimes you just want the comfort of knowing that somebody really does care about you (even if they show it in peculiar ways).

  

  Cara Lockwood
  • Want
  • You
  • Care

• What I did was sit down with the Washington State officials, with the historic preservation people, with the tribe, the local community, the port of Port Angeles, and we worked this thing out, and we protected the tribe's interest.

  

  Norm Dicks
  • Interest
  • Protected
  • Tribe

• The condition of our survival in any but the meagerest existence is our willingness to accommodate ourselves to the conflicting interests of others, to learn to live in a social world.

  

  Learned Hand
  • World
  • Live
  • Survival

• I used to be a fighter and I'm used to taking weight off.

  

  Burt Young