33 Quotes by Danny Aiello

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

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.

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.

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.

I was 40 when I did my first movie.

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.

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.

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

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.