Danny Aiello Quotes

• An album is such a personal thing. It’s something I always wanted to do. It’s me doing me, singing as me.

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• If I stunk for some reason, you can always blame it on the character.

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• You don’t have to be worried about labeling me.

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• There was certainly less profanity in the Godfather than in the Sopranos. There was a kind of respect. It’s not that I totally agreed with it, but it was a great piece of art.

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• The choreographer for the Milton Berle show wanted me to audition. I walked away from that.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• I’m a traditionalist. I have certain values I live by.

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

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• 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.

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• Death can’t be so bad if mom went through it. It makes it easier for the child to follow.

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Danny Aiello (12)

Birth:	20th June, 1933
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

About

Danny Aiello was born in New York City, New York. He is an American actor. He had a pivotal role in the 1989 Spike Lee film Do the Right Thing as Salvatore "Sal" Frangione, the pizzeria owner, which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. One of his earliest roles came as a ballplayer in the 1973 baseball drama, Bang the Drum Slowly, with Robert De Niro. In 1981, he won a Daytime Emmy award for his appearance in an ABC Afterschool Special called A Family of Strangers. His many film appearances included three for director Woody Allen, who cast him in Broadway Danny Rose, The Purple Rose of Cairo, and Radio Days.

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