Danny Aiello Quotes

#1. As a kid, I lived in a fantasy world. I used to believe ants could talk. Not once did they say thank you.

Willard Wigan

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

Danny Aiello

#3. Don't let the whirlwinds drag you down. These are your days - to stand strong as disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Neil L. Andersen

#4. 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

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

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#6. 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

#7. I like the public hot-tub at the hotels. I like when a guy is already in there, I say, "Hey, do you mind if I join you?" Then I go turn the heat up, and I add some carrots and onions.

Mitch Hedberg

#8. I have to go through auditions, and my surname has got me into rooms, but I'll never know if it gets me any jobs. There's a lot of sexism and objectification, and a lot of people put you down.

Oona Chaplin

#9. 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.

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

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

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#12. 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.

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#13. Ahem," Drustan said after a long time. "Do you know you just married me, lass?" "What?" Gwen shouted. "Would you please let your husband out of the garderobe?" Gwen was stunned. She'd married him with those words?

Karen Marie Moning

#14. 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.

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

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

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

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#18. 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.

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#19. How do we think beyond interruptive ad formats, and do things that are much more integrated, much more innovative, and actually empower the viewer and give them a better product experience?

James Murdoch

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

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#21. 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.

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

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

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#24. When, within our souls and psyches we are made aware of a safe but insistent drum beat, repeated like butterfly wings in motion, we sense the message ... that our inner self has begun its search for freedom.

Mary Meeker

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

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

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

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#28. The human body is river of intelligence, energy and information that is constantly renewing itself in every second of its existence.

Deepak Chopra

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

Danny Aiello

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

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#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. And the sunlight claps the earth,
And the moonbeam kiss the sea,
What is all these sweet work worth,
If thou kiss not me.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#34. All I can say is practice, you never know what you might do.

Soraya Jimenez