Armand Assante Quotes
I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was never in a film big enough to do that.
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I will, proudly and by preference, do at least one picture a year for King Brothers, and I will try to make it the best picture that I have it in me to do.
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It is absolutely unacceptable to think that in the last year of the president's term, that he should stop doing his job, and he won't.
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Most big popcorn movies are 'bad guy does something to good guy, good guy gets revenge on bad guy, sets the world right, and moves on.' And 'Ender's Game' is just not that simple, so it's an exciting challenge. It's a little terrifying, and let's see how audiences respond.
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Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
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Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
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I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.
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I was a hacker of sorts. Not a mind 'reader,' exactly; more a mind 'radar,' in tune with the workings of the aether. I could sense the nuances of dreamscapes and rogue spirits. Things outside myself. Things the average voyant wouldn't feel.
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Compton is my city.
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Everyone's curves fall in a different place. But you can't put something of mine on and not see curves.
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A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it.
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Everyone who goes to a job he doesn't like is a lot weirder than I am.
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Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.
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You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.
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Great success doesn't come in short periods of time.
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I try to let my game speak for itself.
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The end of a picture is always an end of a life.
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Knowing was better than not knowing. But not by much.
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There came a point when if a conspiracy was that powerful and subtle it became pointless to worry about it.
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I understand why people think we're gay. There isn't a definition in our culture for this kind of bond between women. So I get why people have to label it – how can you be this close without it being sexual?
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The feeling for what ought and ought not to be grows and dies like a tree, and no fertilizer of any kind will do much good.
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There's kind of no rhyme or reason to what is appealing to any given actor. It just is, or it isn't. It's kind of like dating. You either connect to someone or you don't. You can't really say why.
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In 2016, let us all join the Rising, and the only final message is this very clear: Up the Rebels. Up a sovereign and independent Irish republic.
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I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was never in a film big enough to do that.
