Tony Bennett (Anthony Dominick Benedetto) Quotes

"Benedetto" means the "blessed one" and I feel that I have truly been blessed.

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• Most actors, if you ask them if they play guitar, they'll say they played guitar for 20 years, but what they really mean is they've owned a guitar for 20 years.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Play
  • Mean
  • Guitar

• I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Job
  • Want
  • Day

• I'm really, really interested in the job of acting. I can really care less about being famous. I'm more about the work, and 'The Big C' was amazing, so I wanted to be a part of it.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Work
  • Job
  • Amazing

• I have more friends in New York than Paris.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Friends
  • New
  • New York

• I am a citizen of the world.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • World
  • Citizen

• Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Life
  • Good
  • Home

• If you give the audience what they want when they want how they want it, they won't steal it.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Want
  • You
  • Audience

• I got my feet wet in a couple of shows. I did a cameo on my favorite show, 'The Vampire Diaries.' And I guest starred on a show called 'Kickin' It' on Disney.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Couple
  • Feet
  • Disney

• I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Religion
  • Seriously
  • Effect

• If my daughter has a bad dream and wants to get into my bed, I'm a sucker for her sweet face and warm body next to mine, so I let her jump in. I should tell her to go to bed, but secretly I love it.

  

  Lara Spencer
  • Love
  • Bad
  • Dream

• I'm a foodie. I enjoy it a lot, and contrary to what it looks, I eat a lot. My comfort food, of all things, would be southern soul barbecue.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Soul
  • Food
  • Enjoy

• I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Life
  • Love
  • True

• The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.

  

  F. L. Lucas
  • World
  • Men
  • Art

• Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps because his wife was a poet, Ira Pastan agreed to take me into his laboratory, despite my lack of scientific credentials.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Health
  • Wife
  • Training

• At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Movie

• Emotions should be real; one shouldn't come across as acting.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Real
  • Acting
  • Emotions

• We do not have to accept the world as we find it. And we have a responsibility to leave our world a better place and never walk by on the other side of injustice.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • World
  • Responsibility
  • Walk

• I have a strong emotional respect for Steve.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Strong
  • Respect
  • Emotional

• Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.

  

  Daniel Webster
  • Forever

• In 2012, I received a phone call from the family of Arsala Rahmani, the Afghan senator with whom I'd become friendly. That morning, a gunman had pulled up alongside Rahmani's vehicle, idling in a crowded intersection, and shot him point blank.

  

  Anand Gopal
  • Up
  • Family
  • Morning

• I've got five kids and I'm married, Tommy's got two kids and he's been married, Vince just got married again, Mick's out of a relationship, Tommy's single as well. We've done a lot in our life, we've covered a lot of miles.

  

  Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
  • Relationship
  • Married
  • Miles

• The problem with the Iranian regime, of course is, one, its unsettling effects on the Sunnis, particularly Saudi Arabia, and, secondly, its potential threat to Israel.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Problem
  • Potential
  • Israel

• Use justice to rule a country. Use surprise to wage war. Use non-action to govern the world.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • War
  • Justice
  • Rule

• "Benedetto" means the "blessed one" and I feel that I have truly been blessed.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Blessed
  • Benedetto