Armand Assante Quotes

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

Armand Assante

#2. It's a blessing and a curse. But it's not always the best situation to be in. As a profession, I don't recommend acting at all.

Armand Assante

#3. For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. Only ten years ago the 'more with less' technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#4. I stopped courting Hollywood a long time ago.

Armand Assante

#5. I go out there and make a fool of myself. It's inevitable.

Armand Assante

#6. He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Joseph Heller

#7. Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity.

Armand Assante

#8. Maybe you don't work for seven months a year, but you'll work again. It may be a piece of garbage, so you wear hip boots.

Armand Assante

#9. There was a lot of purple on the covers. Purple sold scary books better than any other color, Mike had been told.

Stephen King

#10. You love what you do, you are cursed with it, and then you get known for being cursed with it.

Armand Assante

#11. It is always important in matters of high politics to know what you do not know. Those who think that they know, but are mistaken, and act upon their mistakes, are the most dangerous people to have in charge.

Margaret Thatcher

#12. I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker.

Armand Assante

#13. Am I too much for the world, or is the world too much for me?

Kelli Jae Baeli

#14. True Christianity, which will last forever, comes from the gospel words of Christ not from the epistles of Paul. The writings of Paul have been a danger and a hidden rock, the causes of the principal defects of Christian theology.

Ernest Renan

#15. I've got the best deal on Earth. Where else can I sin and know that I'm forgiven for it?

Armand Assante

#16. I've brought my daughters all over the world-they travel with me. I drag them out of school just to keep the relationship. When I'm home I'm a big-time daddy.

Armand Assante

#17. The whole industry is so screwed up by economics. It's disgusting to me.

Armand Assante

#18. The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western.

Armand Assante

#19. I never pursued a career relentlessly.

Armand Assante

#20. My dream as a youngster was to be like Olivier. To be a great stage actor. To be a great Shakespearean actor. To me that is the Olympics of acting.

Armand Assante

#21. Acting is a total physical, emotional sensation.

Armand Assante

#22. Call it sentimentality. Call it curiosity.
Just don't call it madness.

Megan Shepherd

#23. I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them.

Armand Assante

#24. I've worked for 27 years nonstop in theater and films. That's a lot of work.

Armand Assante

#25. I never excelled at one sport or had a very strong passion for anything other than wrestling and bodybuilding.

Dave Bautista

#26. I think every player should think that he's a difference maker.

Brett Favre

#27. I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with.

Armand Assante

#28. I would not put my little bird in the jaws of a trap without being near enough to make sure it wouldn't close on her.

Lili St. Crow