Franco Nero Quotes
I could be a star and maybe make lots of money, or I could change roles all the time and have a more interesting - and longer - career.
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I remember the first time I went to Italy when I was eighteen, I was in Florence and there were all these eighteen, nineteen, twenty-year-olds gliding past on Vespas with crinkly, long, hair, and I thought I was on the set of a movie. I couldn't believe that this was going on and I hadn't known about it before. I was flabbergasted.
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It didn't help my career to be living in Appalachia.
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I love Winston Churchill; I think he had the grace of coming and the grace of leaving - when things were hard he was there, and when it was time to leave, he left.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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When I first met Mandela, we did not discuss anything of substance; we just felt each other out. He spent a long time expressing his admiration for the Boer generals and how ingenious they were during the Anglo-Boer war.
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I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.
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You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
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There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really interesting character because she does this.' I'm not like that at all. I'm not an actory actor.
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For being in a relationship or to be linked up with somebody, you need to have time. I hang out with my friends just at my leisure, but there's no time to get into any link up.
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Dan Henderson has been a fighter for a long time, and he's been a champion in many different organizations.
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Playing baseball is fun. If I could play, I'd never retire. But managing is work. It's constant decisions of whose feelings you want to hurt all the time.
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It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-'80s, and we had the '85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era.
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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
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Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.
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Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.
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People have different takes on clothes and what to wear and colors and all that stuff, so why make a big deal about uniformity? It took me a long time to grasp that particular concept, simply because I was coming from the James Brown thing. Again, I wouldn't trade that experience for anything.
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I read The Odyssey all the time. I always get something out of it.
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To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a good player, but I lost the skill and now I play very badly. I do it every day even so. The reason is that I want to return to my childhood. For me, the trumpet is evidence of the sort of young man I was.
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You know, I have some issues. But I just love to play different characters all the time, and I try not to repeat myself too much.
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When you make a black-and-white movie with two people in it in 2016, you're taking a swing at something.
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When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.
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Your teammates give you the confidence. They give me the confidence all year, all postseason.
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The space you occupy and the authority you exercise may be measured with mathematical exactness by the service you render.
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I could be a star and maybe make lots of money, or I could change roles all the time and have a more interesting - and longer - career.
