Assante Quotes

#1. The Lord grants in a moment what we may have been unable to obtain in dozens of years.

Philip Neri

#2. Every one and every single time is different, and I didn't have C-sections, which I don't know if that's lucky or unlucky, but I was able to feel every contraction. You forget what it feels like. God's got a great way of making women forget what it's like because we would never go through it again.

Monica Potter

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

Armand Assante

#4. I'm not a big gore hound but monster gore is different to me than killing a teenager in any way that you can when another human-like person does it. I don't know how I rationalize that really but it seems different to me.

Rick Baker

#5. Remember the seven Ps.

Seven what?

Proper preparation and planning... Prevent piss-poor performance.

Garth Ennis

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

Armand Assante

#7. I want you to know that I would be happy if the two of us spent the rest of our lives living in the cabin. It's not the size of the house that makes it a home. It's the love inside. Marrying you is the best decision I've ever made, Eric Hawke.

Pamela Clare

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

Armand Assante

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

Armand Assante

#10. 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

#11. I never pursued a career relentlessly.

Armand Assante

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

Armand Assante

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

Armand Assante

#14. If I met me, I would say a quick hello and then think that I was a really nice girl.

Britney Spears

#15. I love to be directed. They can trust me and go.

Jeff Goldblum

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

Armand Assante

#18. What do you say to someone who is not the same and yet completely the same?

Stephanie Perkins

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

Armand Assante

#20. The only thing that was sharper and that scarred more was the selfish actions of those you loved when they made it crystal clear that they cared more for themselves than they did for you. Especially when it was someone you trusted to always put you first.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

Armand Assante

#22. I'm a wonderful editor. That's what I do best. I know exactly what I want. If I have to decide whether to wear the red dress or the blue dress or what should I have said, I am constantly changing my mind.

Barbara Walters

#23. I notice that a little bit at The Office, with, like, an actor: If I decided there'd be a certain way in the script, it would still seem open-ended, whereas ... if I was a man I would not have seen that.

Mindy Kaling

#24. You must spend money to make money.

Plautus

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

Armand Assante

#26. 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

#27. The only real failure in life is giving up. On looking back let it stand to our credit in life's balance sheet that at least we tried, and tried hard.

A.G. Street

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

Armand Assante

#29. I am deeply worried because we are seeing an unleashing of violence by 2,000 to 3,000 thugs who come to smash and loot. My objective is to avoid mistakes by the police, so that people can protest in safety.

Nicolas Sarkozy

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

Armand Assante

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

Armand Assante

#32. 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