Danny Aiello's BIO Oscar win for 'Do the Right Thing' (1989)
June 20, 1933 (Brooklyn, New York, USA)

Danny Aiello's quotes
  • You don't have to be worried about labeling me.
  • Death can't be so bad if mom went through it. It makes it easier for the child to follow.
  • 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.
  • Like most people, I would sing in the privacy of my home. I'd also sing for my daughters or at a guest at somebody's function. I loved doing it.
  • I'm a traditionalist. I have certain values I live by.
  • 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.
  • My mother was the total influence. My father was what we call a nomadic person; he was a wanderer.
  • I try to be a good parent. I've probably repressed my kids more than I should have, protecting them overly. I never hit them. I yelled a lot.
  • 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.
  • An album is such a personal thing. It's something I always wanted to do. It's me doing me, singing as me.
  • My mother was like the pope. Any talent that I have that's good comes straight from her. She was loving to all people. Not only me.
  • I have sons, and they have never said the word hell in front of me or my wife. That's the truth.
  • If I stunk for some reason, you can always blame it on the character.
  • The choreographer for the Milton Berle show wanted me to audition. I walked away from that.
  • 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.
  • I'm an actor and that's what I do for a living, but I just wanted them to know where I came from and hopefully remember what I've started to do.
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