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Armand Assante
American
Actor
About the author
I've got the best deal on Earth. Where else can I sin and know that I'm forgiven for it?
Armand Assante,
American
Actor
#Earth
#Sin
I've worked for 27 years nonstop in theater and films. That's a lot of work.
Armand Assante,
American
Actor
#Work
#Years
#Theater
You love what you do, you are cursed with it, and then you get known for being cursed with it.
Armand Assante,
American
Actor
#Love
#Being
The whole industry is so screwed up by economics. It's disgusting to me.
Armand Assante,
American
Actor
#Economics
The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western.
Armand Assante,
American
Actor
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,
American
Actor
#Acting
#Actor
#Dream
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,
American
Actor
#Work
#May
#Months
Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity.
Armand Assante,
American
Actor
#Literature
#Mediocrity
I go out there and make a fool of myself. It's inevitable.
Armand Assante,
American
Actor
#Fool
Acting is a total physical, emotional sensation.
Armand Assante,
American
Actor
#Acting
I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with.
Armand Assante,
American
Actor
#Want
#People
#Act
#Intimacy
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,
American
Actor
#Acting
#Profession
I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them.
Armand Assante,
American
Actor
#Fun
#Hollywood
#Being
#Idea
I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker.
Armand Assante,
American
Actor
#Life
#Quiet
I never pursued a career relentlessly.
Armand Assante,
American
Actor
#Career
I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was never in a film big enough to do that.
Armand Assante,
American
Actor
#Film
#Hollywood
I stopped courting Hollywood a long time ago.
Armand Assante,
American
Actor
#Time
#Hollywood
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,
American
Actor
#World
#Home
#School
#Daughters
#Travel