Danny Aiello Quotes

Danny Aiello

Profession : Actor

Birth : June 20, 1933

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

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

Danny Aiello

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

Danny Aiello

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

Danny Aiello

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.

Danny Aiello

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

Danny Aiello

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.

Danny Aiello

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

Danny Aiello

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

Danny Aiello

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

Danny Aiello

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

Danny Aiello

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

Danny Aiello

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.

Danny Aiello

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

Danny Aiello

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

I was 40 when I did my first movie.

Danny Aiello

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.

Danny Aiello

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.

Danny Aiello

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

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

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