John Turturro Quotes

It's great to watch someone get the most out of what they can do, whether they're a beautiful performer or just a really gritty performer. It's something to behold.

John Turturro

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 28, 1957

Topics

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The personality problem is so tough when you're not able to pay people. It's bad enough when you can pay people, but, when you have people working for free, often their motivation is diminished considerably.

John Badham

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I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved occupation, so he didn't have to enlist. My mother was a housewife. She worked in a bank before marrying my father.

Robert Powell

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Gomez is a by-the-book cop. He's the only character not to break bad.

Steven Michael Quezada

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I am the best cruiserweight in the world.

Tony Bellew

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All boxers are different, and we all approach the fights in different ways.

Miguel Cotto

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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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The Monkees changed my life but ruined my acting career.

Davy Jones

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I remember, as a kid, thinking more about, you know, watching the world go by and being amazed by how both complex but consistent and elegant it was. You know, why, you know, when you put that cold glass of water on the table, it kind of warms up at a very predictable way.

Dean Kamen

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I don't know any comedian who tailors his act to his audience. Maybe people say they do, but I can't even imagine them.

Colin Quinn

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People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.

Chuck Norris

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I was reading C.S. Lewis with my mom, and she was pointing out that he was dead, and I'm like, 'What do you mean he's dead?' We were in this world he created, and he was gone from the Earth. Yet in those black marks on a white page, his imagination lived on, his voice lived on. That is so miraculous.

Anthony Doerr

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'Luncheon of the Boating Party,' owned by The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., has served Americans as a symbol of France and French culture, both of which I love, and is as evocative and triumphant an image as that other emissary of France, the Statue of Liberty.

Susan Vreeland

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