Aiello Quotes

#1. I said to NFL spokesman Greg Aiello, 'You realize that's the first time anybody associated with the league has made that connection?' And I remember, he was a litttle ... annoyed. He was annoyed.

Alan Schwarz

#2. Alan Schwarz of the New York Times calls up the NFL to get a response, and what he gets from Greg Aiello, the league spokesman, is more denials. They are now denying their own study.

Steve Fainaru

#3. I was 40 when I did my first movie.

Danny Aiello

#4. My mother was the total influence. My father was what we call a nomadic person; he was a wanderer.

Danny Aiello

#5. We talk about Hollywood being pro-labor, yet about 70% of our industry has been farmed out to Canada, meaning we are losing jobs like crazy. Where's organized labor asking how we can allow such a thing to happen?

Danny Aiello

#6. When two countries fight was, it's weapon manufacturers who win.

Abhijeet Singh

#7. My father was a good man, but he was a con man. He was a wanderer, nomadic.

Danny Aiello

#8. For years, I was compared to Wookiees, especially after I did the 'Star Wars Holiday Special.' I have some photos of me with a few of the Wookiees on the set, and it's hard to tell us apart.

Bruce Vilanch

#9. There was certainly less profanity in the Godfather than in the Sopranos. There was a kind of respect. It's not that I totally agreed with it, but it was a great piece of art.

Danny Aiello

#10. Faith is like pure eyes that enable us to see a pure and perfect world beyond the suffering world of samsara.

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

#11. When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.

Ralph Fiennes

#12. I used to make up stories about my father. I would go to the movies and look for a character who looked like my father.

Danny Aiello

#13. In a sense, when we started Virgin Atlantic, I was trying to create an airline for myself. If you try to build the perfect airline for yourself, it will be appreciated by others.

Richard Branson

#14. An album is such a personal thing. It's something I always wanted to do. It's me doing me, singing as me.

Danny Aiello

#15. You gazed at the moon and fell in the gutter.

Thomas Fuller

#16. The wheel of fortune [ ... ] tells us that we all only want victory. We all want to triumph. But we all have to learn to endure what comes. We have to learn to treat misfortune and great fortune with indifference. That is wisdom.

Philippa Gregory

#17. People call me an instinctive actor. I used to consider that an insult early on, only because I had never studied. Now ... I love it.

Danny Aiello

#18. The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.

Tecumseh

#19. My father was never around. It was almost as if he didn't exist. I would tell my friends he was in Cleveland, on business. Sometimes, every six months or so, he would come by for dinner.

Danny Aiello

#20. My father never saw me play ball, and I was an outstanding ballplayer. I missed all that adoration.

Danny Aiello

#21. Be strong and of good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed.

John F. Kennedy

#22. You don't have to be worried about labeling me.

Danny Aiello

#23. I was just so blatantly shy throughout my life.

Danny Aiello

#24. I need distractions. Good distractions, not bad ones. A good distraction for me is a great play.

Danny Aiello

#25. I get off on hearing other people's voices. I like voices: they're my favourite things on records.

Brian Wilson

#26. Millie ran back and forth, first jumping on Diego, then Henry, then Diego. "Arff!" she said, which means "let's help" in the way dogs talk.

Tracy Aiello

#27. Do I really want to spend my whole life trying not to die by mistake?

Amanda Seyfried

#28. If I only did theatre I would have had to waitress, and I didn't want to waitress.

Kim Cattrall

#29. Death can't be so bad if mom went through it. It makes it easier for the child to follow.

Danny Aiello

#30. Look, people have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world, I don't care where it is, when they look at me it's not about my intelligence. It's who can I beat up.

Danny Aiello

#31. I'm a traditionalist. I have certain values I live by.

Danny Aiello

#32. I fell in love with the most beautiful girl in the Bronx.

Danny Aiello

#33. It was a thick black leather, stopping at the waist, and definitely not his style. It looked ridiculous with the white tee shirt. "Come on, Tommy. I can't wear this. I look like something from West Side Story." Tommy

Darien Cox

#34. I have sons, and they have never said the word hell in front of me or my wife. That's the truth.

Danny Aiello

#35. I don't know anyone who curses the way they do on the Sopranos. Not in an Italian household. I never said the word hell in front of my mother.

Danny Aiello

#36. If I didn't start singing in the cabarets and on my albums, I could have never even tried something like 'Capone.'

Danny Aiello

#37. The choreographer for the Milton Berle show wanted me to audition. I walked away from that.

Danny Aiello

#38. At some point in my life, before I was gone, I wanted to make an album, even if it was for no reason other than posterity.

Danny Aiello

#39. My entire family were Democrats all our lives. But because how furious I was about the previous administration, I turned in my card to become a Republican. I did not want to be known as a Democrat under that person's regime.

Danny Aiello

#40. It was him. The boy in 'I met a boy!

Gillian Flynn

#41. If I stunk for some reason, you can always blame it on the character.

Danny Aiello

#42. Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.

Marcus Buckingham