Dom DeLuise Quotes

Every couple of seconds out here they're honoring somebody. You've got to get dressed, go in and sit down. Invariably somebody makes a speech.

Dom DeLuise

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 1, 1933 - May 4, 2009

Topics

SpeechYouDownDressedGoOut

Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it. Obviously, it's a challenge - but if you're not taking the bull by the horns, I have no patience for you. You're just taking up space.

Melissa Rosenberg

PatienceChallengeSpaceGiftYou

In 1932, the predecessor organization, the CDC, took 299 black sharecroppers from the South who had syphilis. They offered them free healthcare, hot lunches, and free burial. They said you can only come to us for healthcare. These were men who were sharecroppers, and they had syphilis. They were never told they had syphilis.

Robert Kennedy, Jr.

MenOrganizationFreeBlackYouHot

Hip-hop started as this niche moment, and the values of it, the cultures that it carried on its back; language, clothes, the way you wear your clothes, the items that you consume, all came with the music as an art form. And those things helped transform how people buy, shop, speak, engage.

Steve Stoute

MusicArtMomentPeopleSpeakYou

Swavey is a musical genre that I came up with to describe artists who are too talented to stay in a box with their music.

Tory Lanez

MusicBoxUpStayArtistsWho

I'm not up in the front office or anything; I just control what I can control: playin' ball and playin' the best I can play.

Rob Gronkowski

BestControlI CanPlayOfficeUp

I grew up seeing a lot of theatre, and it was theatre that really seduced me into acting - not film or television.

Miranda Otto

MeTheatreSeeingTelevisionActing

I thought to myself, 'All right, let's take a look at your resume. You have no financial background. You have basketball, that's what you have, for your whole life.'

Jason Kidd

LifeMyselfBasketballThoughtLook

You can't bomb a people just in case.

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

PeopleYouJustBombCase

I love being a struggling artist; it makes me feel very alive.

Jonathan Evison

LoveMeFeelArtistAliveBeing

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack in 'Titanic' was my childhood crush!

Christa B. Allen

ChildhoodCrushTitanicJack

I use New York to talk about home, but the ideas in 'Colossus' could be transferred to other cities. The story about Central Park is really about the first day of spring in any park. The Coney Island chapter is really about beaches and summer and heat waves.

Colson Whitehead

HomeDayNew YorkSpringIdeasNew

If you play well, win, don't change too much. But when you don't play well, lose, you have to give the opportunity to the other players.

Claudio Ranieri

ChangeOpportunityWinYouLose

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