Armand Assante Quotes

"I've worked for 27 years nonstop in theater and films. That's a lot of work."
- Armand Assante
(Related: Work, Theater, Years)

"You love what you do, you are cursed with it, and then you get known for being cursed with it."
- Armand Assante
(Related: Love, Being)

"The whole industry is so screwed up by economics. It's disgusting to me."
- Armand Assante
(Related: Economics)

"The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western."
- Armand Assante

"My dream as a youngster was to be like Olivier. To be a great stage actor. To be a great Shakespearean actor. To me that is the Olympics of acting."
- Armand Assante
(Related: Dream, Acting, Actor)

"Maybe you don't work for seven months a year, but you'll work again. It may be a piece of garbage, so you wear hip boots."
- Armand Assante
(Related: Work, May, Months)

"Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity."
- Armand Assante
(Related: Literature, Mediocrity)

"I go out there and make a fool of myself. It's inevitable."
- Armand Assante
(Related: Fool)

"Acting is a total physical, emotional sensation."
- Armand Assante
(Related: Acting)

"I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with."
- Armand Assante
(Related: People, Act, Intimacy, Want)

"It's a blessing and a curse. But it's not always the best situation to be in. As a profession, I don't recommend acting at all."
- Armand Assante
(Related: Acting, Profession)

"I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them."
- Armand Assante
(Related: Idea, Being, Fun, Hollywood)

"I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker."
- Armand Assante
(Related: Life, Quiet)

"I never pursued a career relentlessly."
- Armand Assante
(Related: Career)

"I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was never in a film big enough to do that."
- Armand Assante
(Related: Film, Hollywood)

"I stopped courting Hollywood a long time ago."
- Armand Assante
(Related: Time, Hollywood)

"I've brought my daughters all over the world-they travel with me. I drag them out of school just to keep the relationship. When I'm home I'm a big-time daddy."
- Armand Assante
(Related: Home, Travel, Daughters, School, World)