Robert Loggia Quotes

#1. I am a close friend of Robert Loggia. And I just love how, with actors, there's the screen persona. Here is Robert, known for his portrayal of many characters, including gangsters. But in real life, he is elegant and erudite. He sits in the garden reading the sonnets of William Shakespeare.

Luanne Rice

#2. Working with David Lynch was like taking a bullet. A gun at you. 'Lost Highway' is, I think, one of the best films I've ever been in. It'll endure a long, long time.

Robert Loggia

#3. If the guy has a gun, that's the power. He doesn't need to wave the gun; he just needs to point the gun in a very relaxed fashion.

Robert Loggia

#4. I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me.

Charles Kingsley

#5. When you play somebody, you pick up a lot of their gestures, his voice, the way he speaks, his body language. You don't often get that opportunity.

Robert Loggia

#6. We rehearsed our 'Scarface' to the nines. Long period of rehearsal, so that by the time we started to shoot, it was almost like doing a play. We all had a grand time doing it. It was a wonderful cast.

Robert Loggia

#7. An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God - that'd be a boring career. When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting ... It's a challenge.

Robert Loggia

#8. ...even the goddess Persephone is happy, if only for half each year.

C.F. Joyce

#9. I think a lot of what you do depends on the other people in the cast. It doesn't only depend on you the actor, but it depends on a variety of things, what the other actors are like.

Robert Loggia

#10. John Huston is more of a creative director than most.

Robert Loggia

#11. I can't be under the weight of the character for a 14-hour shooting day. I don't think anybody can do that.

Robert Loggia

#12. Psychoanalysis is right to be mistrustful. One of its rules runs: whatever disturbs the continuation of the work of analysis is a resistance.

Sigmund Freud

#13. It's unfortunate, and we're disappointed the FDA did not grant the stay, ... But because there are no new scientific findings other than what the poultry groups submitted already, the likelihood of the company being successful in a further legal action is next to nil.

Bob Walker

#14. Oh It's home again, and homed again, America for me. I want a ship that's Westward bound, to plough the rolling sea.

Henry Van Dyke

#15. The Italian mafia, they're very [into] construction. They're in a whole different way of operating than they did back in the '20s.

Robert Loggia

#16. I'm real, and that what you see is what you get with me. I want people to know that I'm just Julianne. I'm not somebody that needs to be put up on a pedestal.

Julianne Hough

#17. When you read a script, you don't want to be the same guy all the time, you want to change, you're a different person. That's why acting is a wonderful career. You're not the same guy all the time.

Robert Loggia

#18. History is not a fixed truth. It changes with the speaker.

Jenn Reese

#19. Anyone who thinks designers don't talk to editors, and editors don't talk to stores doesn't know what's happening ... It's called crossover, sampling all references in music, art and fashion.

Marc Jacobs

#20. Lesson number one: Don't underestimate the other guy's greed.

Robert Loggia

#21. Nevertheless, I tend to get offensive easily.

Robert Loggia

#22. I don't know why it was canceled, but 'Mancuso, FBI,' it should have had a good long run, but it wasn't picked up. Maybe there was a problem with me. I have no idea.

Robert Loggia

#23. I think there were some dubious feelings about it, that the first 'Scarface' would not be surpassed by the second 'Scarface.' We were wrong; it surpassed it. The acting talent, the cinematography - we were propelled into a real class action film. Long after I kick the bucket, it'll be played.

Robert Loggia

#24. One thing that took a while to really adjust to was, you do it for the the art, for the money, for being together and having a good time, but you do it for all those people out there who really care about the show. We are now talking about a show we did over 20 years ago.

Steve Kanaly