Danny Aiello Quotes

I was 40 when I did my first movie.
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

Wanted, Personal, Singing

At some point in my life, before I was gone, I wanted to make an album, even if it was for no reason other than posterity.
Danny Aiello

Life, Before, Reason

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

Death, Mom, Bad

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

Mother, Hell, Said

I fell in love with the most beautiful girl in the Bronx.
Danny Aiello

Love, Beautiful, Girl

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

Truth, Wife, Hell

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

Good, Great, Bad

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

Movies, Character, Father

I was just so blatantly shy throughout my life.
Danny Aiello

Life, Shy, Throughout

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

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

Start, Singing, Tried

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

Character, Blame, Reason

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

Care, Image, Beat

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

Family, Person, Become

My father never saw me play ball, and I was an outstanding ballplayer. I missed all that adoration.
Danny Aiello

Father, Play, Ball

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

Good, Father, Con

My father was never around. It was almost as if he didn't exist. I would tell my friends he was in Cleveland, on business. Sometimes, every six months or so, he would come by for dinner.
Danny Aiello

Business, Father, Friends

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

Mother, Father, Person

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

Love, Insult, Used

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

Care, Image, Beat

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

Away, Wanted, Show

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

Great, Art, Respect

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

Crazy, Happen, Talk

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

Worried, Labeling

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: June 20, 1933

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