Chazz Quotes

#1. I always knew I was going to make it, without doubt.

Chazz Palminteri

#2. You must feel an affinity for what you are photographing. You must be part of it, and yet remain sufficiently detached to see it objectively. Like watching from the audience a play you already know by heart.

George Rodger

#3. To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

Thomas Jefferson

#4. Italian-Americans are not the Mafia.

Chazz Palminteri

#5. Chazz Palminteri is just the ultimate screen husband.

Linda Fiorentino

#6. Mental violence is as bad as physical violence. You don't see that very often in movies, so it was a good subject to tackle.

Chazz Palminteri

#7. I came here knowing nobody. I worked clubs as a singer and even the doors a few times before I landed some TV roles.

Chazz Palminteri

#8. 14May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing to you, O LORD, my rock and my redeemer.

Anonymous

#9. The saddest thing in life is wasted talent and the choices you make will shape your life forever.

Chazz Palminteri

#10. I love people who just started making movies - first-timers, second-timers. They take chances.

Chazz Palminteri

#11. I'm very proud of being Italian-American, but people don't realize that the mafia is just this aberration. The real community is built on the working man, the guy who's the cop, the fireman, the truck driver, the bus driver.

Chazz Palminteri

#12. People pay me for my thoughts and my dreams. I think in that sense I'm very fortunate.

Storm Thorgerson

#13. Also, there's the caliber of actors that we keep getting. Lorraine Bracco plays my mom and Chazz Palminteri plays my father, and Brian Dennehy and Donnie Wahlberg have been on the show. And, we've got Billy Burke from Twilight. We've gotten all kinds of fantastic actors. That speaks for itself.

Angie Harmon

#14. I like playing roulette, I like dice. I grew up with gamblers.

Chazz Palminteri

#15. I've always been successful. Now I'm famous and successful.

Chazz Palminteri

#16. My father always said, 'The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.'

Chazz Palminteri

#17. If you're dressed for my funeral, it's too casual. If it's just street clothes, then you must be scaring the tourists.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#18. Your friend split you open and nearly bled you out."
"True. But he didn't behead me, which I appreciate."
"That is the lowest bar for friendship I've ever heard of.

Devon Monk

#19. My mother and father told me I was god. I was a good Italian boy who hung out with the same four guys. I was a little god.

Chazz Palminteri

#20. I had a 90-minute one-man show. I performed it and my life just exploded. Everything - my life just changed. Every writer, director, producer, studio head, movie star - they all wanted it. It was the hottest property since Rocky.

Chazz Palminteri

#21. Oh, great reviews are the worst. They mislead you more than the bad ones, because they only fuel your ego. Then you only want another one, like potato chips or something, and the best thing you get is fat and bloated. I'd rather just refuse, thanks.

Chazz Palminteri

#22. Yeah, I like to gamble.

Chazz Palminteri

#23. My mom was Sicilian, my dad was Sicilian. Mom was a great cook, but all the women were.

Chazz Palminteri

#24. I get the beginning. I get the end. Then I write the middle. That's how I do it.

Chazz Palminteri