Top 44 Quotes About Danza
#1. I learned so much from Tony Danza I learned so much about myself.
Judith Light
#3. If you can make just one person laugh, then you are already doing better than Tony Danza.
Emo Philips
#4. Italian men age very well. That's what I've learned from Tony Danza.
Alyssa Milano
#5. I live in Los Angeles and I had been drinking one night, so I was on the walk of fame and I saw Tony Danza's star and I started urinating on it. Just yelling out, 'Who's the boss now?'
Zach Galifianakis
#6. I've met Tony Danza. He was really nice. And he looks ... I feel like he hasn't aged. He looks exactly the same. He's just Tony Danza. He's exactly the same as he's always been.
Fred Armisen
#7. Some memorizers arbitrarily associate each playing card with a familiar person or object, so that the king of clubs is represented by, say, Tony Danza. The grand masters associate each card with a person, an action, or an object so that every group of three cards can be converted into a sentence.
Joshua Foer
#8. In an earthquake, I shouldn't run out of the house - I should run into it.
Tony Danza
#9. If you're a teacher you have to teach the curriculum, all that stuff, you have to teach morals, you have to teach values, and you have to teach, all-importantly, self-control. Because a lot of kids don't have it.
Tony Danza
#10. The joke I wanted to put into one of the promos for this new season, was to have a guy come up to me and say, Hey! Tony! I love your show, I've watched you every night since you started! And then I'd say, Ah! You're the one!
Tony Danza
#11. The part in 'Taxi' was originally written for a guy named Phil Ryan, so they made it Phil Banta, and then they made it Tony Banta, which sounded a lot better anyway.
Tony Danza
#12. Poverty can't be an excuse for bad teaching, but teaching can't be the only thing we do to combat poverty.
Tony Danza
#13. I think like a lot of people, you look back on your life and say, 'Gee, why didn't I apply myself?' If I would have spent as much time studying as I did conniving, trying to do as little as possible, I probably would have got the A's.
Tony Danza
#14. I wasn't a bad kid. I was a good kid. But I had gotten in a lot of fights 'cause in the neighborhood I grew up in, that wasn't equated with bad behavior almost. I mean, we'd fought like it was another game. 'You wanna play stick ball today?' 'Nah, let's go fight.'
Tony Danza
#15. I was training in Gleason's Gym on 30th and 8th Avenue, where it was the Mecca of boxing, and a guy walked in who couldn't rub two quarters together and said, 'Did you ever think of being on TV?' And somehow I ended up in 'Taxi,' which is the craziest thing of all.
Tony Danza
#16. Teaching is different today. Teachers don't just stand at the board and lecture while the kids take notes. What we're ultimately teaching them is to teach themselves.
Tony Danza
#17. I'm a union guy; I've always been. I've been in SAG 35 years; my father was a garbage man, a sanitation man, for the city, a union guy.
Tony Danza
#18. Don't try too hard to be young. Be who you are.
Tony Danza
#19. Everyone kept telling me, Just be yourself. Be yourself. I kept thinking, there's got to be more to it than that!
Tony Danza
#20. Every job has its pros and cons. The NFL just has more of both.
Tony Danza
#21. The publicists are the gatekeepers, and they wield a lot of power. They're the ones giving you access to their clients.
Tony Danza
#22. We can't want an education for kids more than they want it for themselves.
Tony Danza
#23. This culture is sort of antithetical in everything it says to the kids. I don't want to pick on 'Jersey Shore,' but it's pretty clear. I would tell the kids good behavior and hard work will pay off, and then they go home and watch TV and go, 'Oh, that's not true.'
Tony Danza
#24. Boxing changed my life. It's like a drug; you can't believe how great it is! Let me tell you something, you hit somebody on the chin, the guy goes down, the crowd roars ... Wow! You really feel something!
Tony Danza
#25. What's interesting is that I get messages from people who think I'm gone. I have messages like "Tony, we're so sorry. We loved you!"
Tony Danza
#26. The prospect of beginning a third- act career scared me almost as much as it attracted me.
Tony Danza
#27. We are cutting things kids like-music, art, and gym classes; stuff that kept me in school. This country can't survive without you kids. It's all about you kids.
Tony Danza
#28. I did Vibe, and I felt old and paternal. I've got ties older than people in that audience. I had a talk with myself. I said, You've got to deal with this better.
Tony Danza
#29. We did 112 shows and had 112 parties.
Tony Danza
#30. Look, when I got in trouble in school I got in trouble at home. Now when kids get in trouble at school, the teacher gets in trouble. So the families are important.
Tony Danza
#31. I love to cook and I know a lot of people watching love those segments, but so often they feel rushed to me. If we give 'em a bit more time to breathe, people will get more out of them.
Tony Danza
#32. I always wanted to be a teacher. I went to school to be a teacher. And I've always, you know, had this sort of romantic idea about it. But I'm worried about - I'm worried about education.
Tony Danza
#33. Sometimes it's like watching a train wreck. You're uncomfortable, but you just can't help yourself. Some of those so-called bad interviews actually turned into compelling television.
Tony Danza
#34. One of the best indicators of student achievement is the academic success of the mother in the home.
Tony Danza
#35. I am a singer and dancer, and I've been perfecting it for a lot of years.
Tony Danza
#36. I am looking forward to getting to do things I have never done before.
Tony Danza
#37. What happened is, when I was doing 'Taxi,' the last year, we did this thing where we had on top hats and tails, and we pretended to tap-dance. And I said to myself, 'You know, I always wanted to know how to do this.' So I got myself a teacher, and I started studying, and I got hooked.
Tony Danza
#38. No one ever seems to question why the burden is all on the teacher to do the engaging, when we ask so little of the students, or for that matter, their parents." Her vehemence startled me. "I never thought of it that way," I told her. "No," she said, not unkindly. "But I promise, you will.
Tony Danza
#39. Hold back the tide. Keep your kids innocent as long as possible.
Tony Danza
#40. I worked at an old folks' home once in Harlem, and I was an activities volunteer. I used to do all these plays with the old people. I did 'The Wizard of Oz;' it was adapted. There was a guy there who played the harmonica, so we had an overture, and The Wizard was 96.
Tony Danza
#41. I got this call that they wanted me to join this cast. They called it a family show, and it thought that it would be similar to all family shows. I wasn't sure about this until I watched some tapes, and was amazed.
Tony Danza
#42. I'm into women. I just really like women a lot.
Tony Danza
#43. Teaching high school in an inner-city school is not an easy task. Every teacher is responsible for 150 teenagers. The amount of work is just mind-boggling. Remember, you're not just doing a job. You have these kids' futures in your hand; you have to inspire them.
Tony Danza
#44. There was a time when watching a cartoon was a nurturing experience. You would watch a Warner Bros. cartoon, and at the end of it you could probably win 'Jeopardy.'
Tony Danza
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