Armand Assante Quotes

I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was never in a film big enough to do that.

Armand Assante

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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.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • Best
  • Picture
  • King

• 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.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Job
  • Think
  • Stop

• 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.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • World
  • Good
  • Bad

• Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Today
  • Struggle
  • Religion

• Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Green
  • Favorite
  • Colors

• 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.

  

  Edmund White
  • Point
  • Novels
  • Seven

• 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.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Mind
  • Myself
  • Feel

• Compton is my city.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • City

• Everyone's curves fall in a different place. But you can't put something of mine on and not see curves.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Different
  • Fall
  • See

• 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.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Music
  • Courage

• Everyone who goes to a job he doesn't like is a lot weirder than I am.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Job
  • Weirder

• Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.

  

  Sam Ewing
  • Father
  • Career
  • Marriage

• You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • People
  • Know
  • Leader

• Great success doesn't come in short periods of time.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Time
  • Great
  • Success

• I try to let my game speak for itself.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Game
  • Speak
  • Try

• The end of a picture is always an end of a life.

  

  Sam Peckinpah
  • Life
  • Picture
  • End

• Knowing was better than not knowing. But not by much.

  

  Orson Scott Card

• There came a point when if a conspiracy was that powerful and subtle it became pointless to worry about it.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Powerful
  • Worry

• I remember seeing Bill Hurt in New York once. I talked to him on the phone around 1988 and that's about it. I was shooting in New York and somebody said Glenn Close came by the set.

  

  Tom Berenger
  • Remember
  • New York
  • Set

• Instead of dumping all my money on an independent film that nobody would watch and most people would make fun of behind my back, I decided, 'I'm just going to buy a house.'

  

  Daniel Tosh
  • People
  • Money
  • Fun

• It is an important time to speak out on Islamaphobia. I truly believe in the inherent goodness in people, and there are people willing to be allies. I choose to focus on the incredible potential for good that this otherwise ugly situation is bringing up.

  

  Hasan Minhaj
  • People
  • Allies
  • Islamaphobia

• A day without football is a day lost.

  

  Ernst Happel
  • Lost
  • Day
  • Football

• When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Light
  • Thought
  • Wall

• I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was never in a film big enough to do that.

  

  Armand Assante