Rocco's Quotes

#1. I grew up on Nickelodeon.On All That and Are You Afraid of the Dark, and Salute Your Shorts and Rocco's Modern Life and all that. That was my generation.

Drake Bell

#2. In all my work I like to convey the fact that I like cooks, that it's noble toil and that it is hard.

Rocco DiSpirito

#3. Walking around with less than ten thousand dollars is completely unacceptable. It's a necessity of life. It gives you freedom. The most important thing in life is a sense of possibility, and you simply can't have it with less than ten thousand dollars in your pocket.

Rocco Landesman

#4. At times, it was an incredible blessing to have all the attention; at times it was a logistical nightmare.

Rocco DiSpirito

#5. After guest appearances, I got the offer to do the show as the successor of Arthur Schwartz. It's so much fun.

Rocco DiSpirito

#6. I support non-discrimination for homosexuals, but I think, or at least I have the right to think - without saying whether I think it or not - I have the right to think, along with the catechism of the Catholic Church, that homosexuality is morally wrong.

Rocco Buttiglione

#7. It's a very, very difficult space to operate in, the restaurant business-it requires a lot of human beings to intersect at just the right place to make it all work out.

Rocco DiSpirito

#8. Mama is slowly getting better. So many people are so fond of her.

Rocco DiSpirito

#9. That's possible, and in fact the legislation, the politics should graduate the advantages towards those who have children and give less to those who don't have children.

Rocco Buttiglione

#10. I would like to start by calling bullshit.

Rocco Landesman

#11. Rocco drove up the West Side until they reached the Port Authority Bus Terminal.

Richard Price

#12. Some people go to acting classes to learn. I just kind of went for the dates.

Alex Rocco

#13. I think the State shouldn't poke its nose into the sexual relations of consenting adults.

Rocco Buttiglione

#14. I'm here, and she is out there, and there isn't a damn thing I can do about it. My love for her is extreme, unexplainable, and to try to say what she means to me in mere words would not do it justice. Maybe I'm not normal.

Danielle Rocco

#15. I'm Italian. I wouldn't know how to play a Jew.

Alex Rocco

#16. Relativism should be confronted where it damages fundamental human rights, because we're not relativists if we believe that the human being should be at the centre of society and the rights of every human being should be respected.

Rocco Buttiglione

#17. I can think that you are mistaken, but I have to be ready to give my life to maintain your right to make mistakes. I have to, though, have the right to say that you're mistaken. This is the principal of the liberal society.

Rocco Buttiglione

#18. No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference.

Rocco Buttiglione

#19. The greed of a single person must never be allowed to subvert the function of government so that one person's profit can be achieved at the expense of many.

Rocco Leonard Martino

#20. The family exists in order to allow women to have children and to have the protection of a male who takes care of them.

Rocco Buttiglione

#21. As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going to be chaos in the restaurant business.

Rocco DiSpirito

#22. Be curious, learn and read as much as you can about food. Don't worry about making money. Focus on learning at various venues before you settle down for a steady position.

Rocco DiSpirito

#23. I saw a bakery truck go by with the name 'Rocco' on it, and that's when I decided to become Alex Rocco.

Alex Rocco

#24. On the other hand, I think that the family, the traditional family, has a fundamental social role, because it's there that children are born and the investment in children is the greatest investment a country can make. The benefits of this investment go to everyone.

Rocco Buttiglione

#25. With Peter O'Toole, you just had nothing but fun.

Alex Rocco

#26. I came literally to the table with a wealth of knowledge by simply understanding how food should taste.

Rocco DiSpirito

#27. One needs to know what the hierarchy of values are from which one takes inspiration, and in a democratic society this is the subject of continuous democratic debate.

Rocco Buttiglione

#28. John Paul II, above all, managed to contain the huge mass of frustration, of hate that had accumulated in that region, in favour of a peaceful transition. This was, without doubt, something that changed European history.

Rocco Buttiglione

#29. I had to get out of the Boston area, so I flipped a coin and said, 'Heads - Miami, tails - California. I was in my mid-20s and came out here with no training. Acting wasn't even in my mind.

Alex Rocco

#30. If you search for poverty, you'll find it, often in the family. Why? Because the family makes this great investment, from which we all benefit, but for which no-one helps. We have to point the spotlight on the family, and make political choices that sustain the family.

Rocco Buttiglione

#31. There are many great wine producers from all over the world making fantastic wines. Italian wines especially are making an enormous comeback after sometimes being labeled as inexpensive jug wines.

Rocco DiSpirito

#32. You have to stick out the toughness of the business and form relationships with the people in it.

Rocco DiSpirito

#33. We desecrated the traditional values, but new values didn't come along.

Rocco Buttiglione

#34. I was on the show previously as a guest host, so I had a little practice.

Rocco DiSpirito

#35. I worked in this bar called the Raincheck Room in the '60s; it used to be over on Santa Monica Boulevard, and, y'know, it was a pretty hip place. Lots of actors hung out there.

Alex Rocco

#36. You study all your life, you work really hard to do your best work onstage and onscreen, and then you make your best money playing an ant.

Alex Rocco

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"If I have learned one thing in my life, it is this - just go with it. If you relax, it doesn't hurt as much," Madonna ( she said as childhood pictures of Rocco were shown in the background.)

Madonna

#38. Rocco watched Strike limp into the human slipstream of Eighth Avenue, watched him negotiate his way through lowlifes and taxpayers until he disappeared inside the terminal doors without a backward glance.

Richard Price

#39. Rocco paid me 35 bucks a week at Murray's Inn in South Jersey. People started asking Rocco to have me sing.

Frankie Avalon

#40. Just over 800 people were gathered around the cooking stage, all eager to learn about my five-minute flavor cooking. The demonstration had to be done right then and there, in front of everyone.

Rocco DiSpirito

#41. The family has a social function and so it should be sustained.

Rocco Buttiglione

#42. I was a young kid; I did a little time in the Billerica House of Correction, and it basically turned my life around because I said, 'Oh, I'll never be locked up again. They're not taking away my privacy.' So I flipped a coin: heads - Miami, tails -California.

Alex Rocco

#43. There really is a camaraderie among chefs and a willingness to help out whenever we can.

Rocco DiSpirito

#44. I was pleasantly surprised after the book came out. It was like, hey, the home team put down a nice score.

Rocco DiSpirito

#45. It's not how you start, it's how you finish.

Danielle Rocco

#46. Love only knows your heart, not your fucking address

Danielle Rocco

#47. I definitely think there was some overacting on the part of the customers and the wait staff. The people who came in during the shooting were clearly there to have a moment on television, and that's fine.

Rocco DiSpirito

#48. Flavor Five is a book with recipes using five ingredients to possibly be cooked in just five minutes. It will be very user-friendly for the home cook on the run.

Rocco DiSpirito

#49. The past was more Christian? At times perhaps, in others, though, no.

Rocco Buttiglione

#50. But he had handled enough divorces to understand that in rough circumstances companions sometimes fared better than lovers. Rocco

Laurie Fabiano

#51. Is it possible to fall in love at thirteen, because I think I just looked into the eyes of the girl I want to look at forever.

Danielle Rocco

#52. Priests have to have the right to say that a sin is a sin.

Rocco Buttiglione

#53. There is a trend in the whole [U.S.] culture toward making things shorter. People have been watching too much television, and they have a television mentality. I think people really are wary of sitting in a theatre too long. They're not used to it.

Rocco Landesman

#54. Playing gangsters is great. They usually dress you sharp. And you have a license to pretty much bully anybody. I mean, I wouldn't dare do that at home. My wife will give me a back hander.

Alex Rocco

#55. The 1,000 tasting portions were to be served over a period of six hours, starting at noon, so we would have to prep those another way, to keep them as fresh as possible.

Rocco DiSpirito

#56. Rocco loving them both so much that he knew he'd never tell a soul about this moment, just take it to bed with him every night for years, like a miser's secret stash of gold.

Richard Price

#57. In life, genius often finds its home in simplicity. And in the cowboy's world, amid the complications of dealing with cows and cowboys, horses and dogs, and trucks and tractors, there may be nothing simpler, yet more ingenius, than a meal cooked over an open fire and served up behind a chuck wagon.

Rocco Wachman

#58. Talking up a storm about food is so easy for me, it's second nature.

Rocco DiSpirito

#59. On the nights they went to bed at the same time, Rocco would lie there and watch her go to the closet, watch her choose either silky slips or mannish shirts, like running up sex flags from across the room.

Richard Price

#60. For Europe, the fall of Communism has to be taken into account, and the fact that in the fight against Communism the recovery of Europe's Christian roots was the driving force.

Rocco Buttiglione

#61. I learned to bet the Red Sox, the Celtics, Suffolk Downs. I thought it was a glorious life - pull up to the doughnut shop, spread out, and plan your day.

Alex Rocco

#62. The new soft totalitarianism that is advancing on the left wants to have a state religion It is an atheist, nihilistic religion - but it is a religion that is obligatory for all.

Rocco Buttiglione

#63. It is important to experiment and endlessly seek after creating the best possible flavors when preparing foods. That means not being afraid to experiment with various ingredients.

Rocco DiSpirito

#64. I don't mean you have to be overbearing, but you have to stay on top of things - read the trades, know what's going on in the town. I call it 'dare to be stupid.' The worst thing they can say is, 'We got nothing for you.' So I've hustled a lot.

Alex Rocco

#65. We are offering to the American public a line of delicious Italian-American foods. They will be available through the Internet, shopping networks and national store distribution.

Rocco DiSpirito

#66. As I get more and more involved in the child's world with Rocco [his son] I'm getting interested in making a film for children.

Guy Ritchie

#67. I wanted to share my life story and honor my roots. I am very proud of my family and mother.

Rocco DiSpirito

#68. I can now focus on a huge audience through TV, books, cookware and foods.

Rocco DiSpirito