Nicholas Pileggi Quotes
Las Vegas is a city of kickbacks. A desert city of greased palms. A place where a $20 bill can buy approval, a $100 bill adulation and $1,000 canonization.
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Unless you have a long-running series, most actors just go job to job if you're lucky to keep working. You just do a movie or a play or a TV thing, and it's over at some point.
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No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
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I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.
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I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan making Super-8 movies.
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We were ordered out to quell an uprising of the Indians, and were out for several days, had numerous skirmishes during which six of the soldiers were killed and several severely wounded.
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I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.
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It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
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A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.
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The fact is that most 'Irish-Americans', in spite of dropping the word 'Irish' into half of all sentences, couldn't find Europe on an atlas, let alone Ireland.
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I've got some good saints out there - that's right - that pray for me constantly. You've gotta have that! You do.
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If you are in trouble anywhere in the world, an airplane can fly over and drop flowers, but a helicopter can land and save your life.
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One of the marks of excellent people is that they never compare themselves with others. They only compare themselves with themselves and with their past accomplishments and future potential.
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One may aspire to succeed Chairman Greenspan but it will not be possible to replace him.
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Because when I get to heaven, the first face that shall ever gladden my sight will be that of my Savior.
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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I'm not trying to get approval from anyone else. No one's approval matters to me - what matters is making myself happy for myself and no one else. And if I look good to someone else, I hope they take me as inspiration or whatever they want.
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We have the best government that money can buy.
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You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it's been something I've been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it's something I hope to continue because it's interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.
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I've always tried to be funny, or stupid, or whatever. I love making people laugh and I think it comes quite naturally to me.
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Las Vegas is a city of kickbacks. A desert city of greased palms. A place where a $20 bill can buy approval, a $100 bill adulation and $1,000 canonization.
