Top 26 Quotes & Sayings by Armand Assante

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor Armand Assante.

Last updated on September 18, 2024.

Armand Anthony Assante Jr. is an American actor. He has played mobster John Gotti in the 1996 HBO television film Gotti, Odysseus in the 1997 mini-series adaptation of Homer's The Odyssey, Nietzsche in When Nietzsche Wept, and Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer in 1982's I, the Jury. His performance in Gotti earned him a Primetime Emmy Award and nominations for the Golden Globe Award and the Screen Actors Guild Award.

American - Actor | Born: October 4, 1949

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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.

Armand Assante

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

Armand Assante

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

Armand Assante

I never pursued a career relentlessly.

Armand Assante

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

Armand Assante

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

Armand Assante

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

Armand Assante

I stopped courting Hollywood a long time ago.

Armand Assante

Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity.

Armand Assante

Acting is a total physical, emotional sensation.

Armand Assante

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

Armand Assante

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

Armand Assante

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

Armand Assante

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.

Armand Assante

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

Armand Assante

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

Armand Assante

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.

Armand Assante

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.

Armand Assante

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

Armand Assante

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