Rispoli Quotes

#1. If I were to be cast as Cyrano or a Connecticut prep-school teacher or a gay boutique owner, it would only happen if some director I had worked with in the past said, 'Why don't we give Rispoli a shot at it?'

Michael Rispoli

#2. I smile to catch the piranhas from swimming out of my mouth.

Evan Mariah Pettit

#3. Only one in a thousand sits down in the midst of it all and says - I will watch my Father mend this. God must not be treated as a hospital for our broken "toys," but as our Father.

Oswald Chambers

#4. Better never begin than never make an end.

George Herbert

#5. I am one of the few actresses who isn't recognized by the way she looks. I'm recognized by the way I talk.

Joey Lauren Adams

#6. A man obsessed: obsessed with perfection, sharing, aesthetics, taste, savoir-faire, and much more.

Alain Ducasse

#7. The reinterpretation and eventual eradication of the concept of right and wrong are that belated objectives of nearly all Psychotherapy

Brock Chisholm

#8. We're dream chasers. Nobody owes us our dream. But we have to chase it.

Michael Rispoli

#9. I grew up around hardware. I could sell you all the plumbing and electricity you want.

Michael Rispoli

#10. That's what I play - blue-collar Italian-Americans. You got to be typecast in order to work. I've been blessed.

Michael Rispoli

#11. My mother and father were supportive. But in an Italian family, you kind of work with your hands, or you are an engineer or a doctor. But an actor was something they couldn't get hold of. They were afraid I wouldn't be able to make a living, and for many years, they were right.

Michael Rispoli

#12. Not all the coal that is dug warms the world.

Mary Harris Jones

#13. I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.

Gary Coleman

#14. I think I was drawn to acting just as a way of getting noticed.

Michael Rispoli

#15. Tell me who you walk with, and I'll tell you who you are.

Esmeralda Santiago