Diamantopoulos Quotes & Sayings

I'm what you call a good, old-fashioned working actor who has had delusions of grandeur for my entire career and has known what I want to do, but there's a lot going on out there. There are a lot fewer films being made, and there's a lot of competition. — Chris Diamantopoulos

I'm a huge fan of the 'James Bond' genre. — Chris Diamantopoulos

In a pinch, when my leather shoes need a quick shine, I take the inside of a banana peel and rub it on the leather like I would a shoe wax. Then I spit-shine it and buff it with a cloth, and my shoes look great. — Chris Diamantopoulos

'The Stooges' used to be ubiquitous, back in the '60s and '70s. They were on TV all the time, but they're not on so much anymore. Kids aren't getting the chance to watch them, not to mention the fact that kids don't really necessarily relate to black-and-white stuff. — Chris Diamantopoulos

Virtue is concerned with what we do, and honour is concerned with how we do it. You can fight a war in an honourable way - the Geneva Convention exists for that very reason - and you can enforce the peace without any honour at all. In its essence, honour is the art of being humble. — Gregory David Roberts

If I could rub a genie and anything could happen? Truthfully, my other love, and this is a complete 180, but I'd love to do a spy or an espionage pic, like a James Bond movie. — Chris Diamantopoulos

I would beg, borrow, and steal to live in N.Y.C. — Chris Diamantopoulos

Tell me my heart beats a war drum
that my eyes are not just armies
but my spine
is a harpoon. — Buddy Wakefield

A strong film director does leave you to your devices. A strong director allows you to be free and you trust that he's there and he will tell you if you've gone too far. A strong director allows you to be much more experimental and take greater chances than a director who isn't secure within himself. — Elizabeth Taylor

No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman. — Israel Zangwill

The great thing about Eminem is, he's just hysterical. You forget, people like Eminem because he is riotously funny. And he's a great actor. — Judd Apatow

I used to be so young, how did I get so old? — Dan Mangan

I started watching 'The Stooges' religiously and obsessively when I was probably about four or five years old till around the age of 18. — Chris Diamantopoulos

It was interesting doing impressions as somebody else doing impressions. Normally, I'll do a voice, and it's me doing the voice. To have to be Robin Williams doing the voice was an interesting sort of study in getting into somebody's head. — Chris Diamantopoulos

A free people, forgetting that it has a soul to be cared for, devotes all its energies to its material advancement. If it makes war, it is to subserve its commercial interests. The citizens copy after the State, and regard wealth, pomp, and luxury as the great goods of life. Such a nation creates wealth rapidly, and distributes it badly. — Albert Pike

We've got to rescue our democracy by using it. — Annie Leonard

I'm barely reading the 'New York Times!' But I do try to keep abreast of things. — Chris Diamantopoulos

I'm not a comedian. I'm what you call a good, old-fashioned working actor who has had delusions of grandeur for my entire career and has known what I want to do. — Chris Diamantopoulos

If you really pay attention to the movie, it comes into play, in many different sections. — Chris Diamantopoulos

The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

I work in L.A. from time to time. — Chris Diamantopoulos

You have to be a xenophile at heart to be a true New Yorker. — Chris Diamantopoulos

THE FINAL PROBLEM — Arthur Conan Doyle

I'm pretty handy in the kitchen. But my wife's the real genius. — Chris Diamantopoulos

Faith is the response to something which is calling us from the timeless part of our reality. — Sydney Carter

I really didn't mean to hurt him.
But we're all means to an end.
And he was no exception. — Cristiana Di Palma

Don't try to be young. Just open your mind. Stay interested in stuff. There are so many things I won't live long enough to find out about, but I'm still curious about them. You know people who are already saying, 'I'm going to be 30 - oh, what am I going to do?' Well, use that decade! Use them all! — Betty White

I sensed that women wanted to be a little different. My fluidity gave them a way of interpreting their bodies in a more personal, individual way. — Giorgio Armani

I'm not a comedian, I'm an actor. — Chris Diamantopoulos