Armand Assante Quotes

• You love what you do, you are cursed with it, and then you get known for being cursed with it.

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• The whole industry is so screwed up by economics. It’s disgusting to me.

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• The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Literature is air, and I’m suffocating in mediocrity.

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• 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.

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• I’ve worked for 27 years nonstop in theater and films. That’s a lot of work.

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• I’ve got the best deal on Earth. Where else can I sin and know that I’m forgiven for it?

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• 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.

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• I stopped courting Hollywood a long time ago.

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• I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was never in a film big enough to do that.

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• I never pursued a career relentlessly.

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• I live a very quiet life, although I’m very urban and a diehard New Yorker.

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• I go out there and make a fool of myself. It’s inevitable.

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• I don’t champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them.

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• I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I’m working with.

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• Acting is a total physical, emotional sensation.

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Armand Assante (18)

Birth:	4th October, 1949
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

About

Armand Assante was born in New York City, and raised in Cornwall, New York. He is an American actor. Assante was married to Karen McArn from 1982 to 1994, and has two daughters, Anya and Alesandra. His first film was The Lords of Flatbush, although the title credits misspelled his last name as Assanti. A role that brought him greater attention came in 1980's Private Benjamin as a handsome Frenchman who becomes the love interest of a U.S. soldier played by Goldie Hawn.  He portrayed the notorious Bugsy Siegel in a comedy, Neil Simon's The Marrying Man, another mobster in Hoffa starring Jack Nicholson, and crime kingpin John Gotti in the 1996 made-for-television biopic Gotti, for which he won his Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie.

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