Michael Imperioli Quotes

I'd go for parts that didn't pay a dime, and there would be 300 to 400 actors there. It could be very discouraging. To make it in this business, you have to have a kind of dumb sense that you're really good. You have to believe that someone is going to recognize that.

Michael Imperioli

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• Not to sound bad, but some girls are dumb. It's because they spend so much of their life trying to have the right look. On the other hand, some girls are just really smart. There are girls you can have conversations with that are healthy conversations. You can argue real life issues and solve problems together. That is what makes a woman sexy.

  

  Wale
  • Life
  • Real
  • Trying

• Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Thinking
  • Business
  • Guy

• I don't put a ton of time into my on-stage style, largely because I'm dumb about clothes. But I have friends who are very smart about clothes, and they teach me things. For the show, I'm mainly concerned with feeling comfortable, being able to jump around and get wild.

  

  K. Flay
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Feeling

• When I was in first grade, some psychologist told my mom if I didn't go to graduate school, she basically failed as a parent, because I had the aptitude to do it. Which is so dumb. Huge pressure!

  

  Cam
  • School
  • She
  • Mom

• I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn't a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Myself
  • Picture
  • Mirror

• Out of all the actors I have worked with, I love working with Larry Hagman the most. We were very close and it was just a wonderful time.

  

  Barbara Eden
  • Time
  • Actors
  • Working

• I don't want anybody to not recognize how appreciative I am of the volume of e-mails I get.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Recognize
  • Volume
  • Appreciative

• Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera. I thought, 'Hey, this will be a really fun story to tell my grandkids one day, that I auditioned for a soap!'

  

  Teddy Sears
  • Business
  • Fun
  • Day

• Silence in love bewrays more woeThan words, though ne’er so witty:A beggar that is dumb, you know, May challenge double pity.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • May
  • Words
  • Challenge

• You struck me dumb, Like radium Like Peter Pan, or Superman, You have come... to save me. Come on and save me... Why don't you save me? If you could save me, From the ranks of the freaks, Who suspect they could never love anyone, Except the freaks, Who suspect they could never love anyone, Except the freaks, Who could never love anyone.

  

  Aimee Mann
  • Why
  • Dumb
  • Superman

• My idea of horses is from when I grew up on a farm. They were big, and they were dumb.

  

  Nelsan Ellis
  • Up
  • Dumb

• I don't think you need to dumb down to a child, you merely have to be clear, you know?

  

  Mary Chapin Carpenter
  • Dumb

• What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

  

  Mario Puzo
  • Real
  • Death
  • Wish

• Even if I'd wanted to work at Goldman Sachs, they weren't going to hire me, because I was saying things like, 'That's a dumb question' when I was asked something stupid in the interviews. I just didn't have a lot of respect for authority.

  

  Mark Pincus
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Question

• When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Art
  • Dress
  • Recognize

• Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food as it's done in the restaurants, but they are dumbed down, and I hate it when they dumb them down.

  

  Mario Batali
  • Different
  • Done
  • Hate

• If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is.

  

  Arnold Rothstein
  • Why
  • Dumb

• We don't need to dumb down our stuff. And it's important to know how far we can push readers.

  

  Ashwin Sanghi
  • Important
  • Dumb

• When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years.

  

  Frank Butler
  • Father
  • Pretty
  • Dumb

• There's a certain power in vague language, but I started to get more into the idea of really trying to have a discrete thought in the lyrics and to have songs that were about stuff - to try to make things more coherent.

  

  David Longstreth
  • Song
  • Language
  • Certain

• You can't argue with the dead, no matter what you say, they always have the last word.

  

  Jennifer Donnelly
  • Dead
  • Argue
  • Last Word

• Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.

  

  Plato
  • Education
  • Childhood
  • Commence

• I'd go for parts that didn't pay a dime, and there would be 300 to 400 actors there. It could be very discouraging. To make it in this business, you have to have a kind of dumb sense that you're really good. You have to believe that someone is going to recognize that.

  

  Michael Imperioli
  • Actors
  • Dumb
  • Recognize