Michael Rispoli Quotes
My mother and father were supportive. But in an Italian family, you kind of work with your hands, or you are an engineer or a doctor. But an actor was something they couldn't get hold of. They were afraid I wouldn't be able to make a living, and for many years, they were right.
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To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
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What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.
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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
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I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is why I've also produced documentaries like 'Brick City' and 'Serving Life.'
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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Had I to do it again, I would have been a math major, probably a double major, and did take a lot of math classes, but I would have taken a lot more.
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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We are all born mad. Some remain so.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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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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If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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To have art suppressed is very dangerous to society.
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Creatively, I've always wanted to be different as it relates to my craft, and reggae, being a part of my culture, makes up a percentage of that uniqueness. The only definition I can think of to describe my style is 'OMI.'
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You have to offer a product that creates an environment that captures donations, but at the end of the day, it's not the environment that draws in the money but the cause.
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At any one time language is a kaleidoscope of styles, genres and dialects.
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We are born, we live, we disappear. One of the chilling aspects of history is the swiftness with which it carries us into oblivion.
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I feel more Jewish than I do Iranian.
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A second later, when he looked up at me, we were face to face, and again, even under these circumstances, I was struck by how good looking he was, in that accidental, doesn't-even-know-it kind of way. Which only made it worse. Or better. Or whatever. "Yup", he said, as if there'd been any doubt, "you're in there, all right." "I was warned, too,"I told him, as he stood up. "I just saw that sculpture, and I got distracted." "The sculpture?" He looked at it, then at me. "Oh, right. Because you know it.
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My father died of brain cancer in 1991. I do not know anyone whose life has not been touched by the loss of a loved one to cancer. I wrote my book 'Gracefully Gone' about my father's fight and my struggle growing up with an ill parent. I wrote it to help others know they are not alone in this all-too-often insurmountable war against cancer.
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My mother and father were supportive. But in an Italian family, you kind of work with your hands, or you are an engineer or a doctor. But an actor was something they couldn't get hold of. They were afraid I wouldn't be able to make a living, and for many years, they were right.
