Diamantopoulos Chris Quotes & Sayings

I am trying to get the hang of this new fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of it. However, this is the first attempt I have ever made & yet I perceive I shall soon & easily acquire a fine facility in its use ... The machine has several virtues. I believe it will print faster than I can write. One may lean back in his chair & work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around. Of course it saves paper. — Mark Twain

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

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

I wanted to work with Mike Leigh. I had my list of British people I wanted to work with, and I wanted to work with David Lynch and Woody Allen. — Carmen Ejogo

The key for hipsters is that they usually try really hard, but the important thing is they want to come across like they don't try. To make it look effortless. I don't mind. It really fits New York, the hipster look. — Henrik Lundqvist

Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient. — Simone De Beauvoir

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

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

My God, these Feeling types! ... Sensitive people are just tyrannical people - everybody else has to adapt to them. — Marie-Louise Von Franz

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

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

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

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

The thing is, once a person's got their base, people they know they can trust in their corner, it makes dealing with everything else easier. It doesn't matter if you've got one or ten you can rely on. If they're there, you can face the rest of the crowd a lot easier. You don't have to be defensive with the world at large because you know at the end of the day, your real friends aren't far away." And — Rhenna Morgan

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