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
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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.

  

  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 think when you sell your company and are no longer the master of driving it, it's quite difficult.

  

  Hubert de Givenchy
  • Driving

• I think when I was a kid, and I was in England and it was all about The Stones, The Who, The Kinks and The Beatles and that's what my dad was into.

  

  Slash Guns N' Roses
  • England
  • The Beatles
  • My Dad

• I think when you get on with the actors that you're working with, even if you do have really intimate scenes, as long as you get on well, and have a bit of a laugh while doing it, then it's fine.

  

  Saoirse Ronan
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Laughing

• You got to be pretty thin to be in the movies, or it helps. I would actually love to do it.

  

  Gregg Allman
  • Pretty

• I don't think I'll be doing a lot more commercials.

  

  James Nesbitt

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

  

  Armand Assante