Danny Devito
Danny Devito
Daniel Michael "Danny" DeVitois an American actor, comedian, producer and director. He gained prominence for his portrayal of the taxi dispatcher Louie De Palma in Taxiwhich won him a Golden Globe and an Emmy...
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth17 November 1944
CityNeptune, NJ
capture hold invested lens life love people rich situations
Documentaries really hold a lens up to life and capture real emotions. It's so rich for me to see a film and know that it's real. I love being invested in real situations and ... the things people go through in life.
achievement smarter
What would a smarter person than me do? Then do it!
calls image sends tim
What Tim does is, he calls me and sends me the script. And then he sends me a drawing, an illustration of his image of me as the character. It's so great.
break knees sat supposed theaters
This was this guy's passion. He sat in movie theaters when he probably was supposed to make collections and break some knees or something.
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So we see Edward as a young man on the road and he meets a giant and he brings the giant to a circus where he meets a Miss Calloway. He sees the woman of his dreams and I am the only one who knows who she is.
boxing couple developed line sweet
I developed that for a long time. I also developed 'Sugar Sweet Science' at New Line and that didn't happen. That was a boxing movie. And between all that there were a couple of other things.
call foot lay reach somebody stop tub
I lay on the ground, but then I can't reach - I don't want to take my foot out of the tub - but I've got to call somebody because I've got to get a band-aid or something to stop the bleeding.
clout greed time underlying using
I didn't do it because of the underlying greed that's prevailing, but it is about greed, doing the right thing at the right time using your clout when you have it and what for and what reason.
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Even when you read the script of 'Big Fish,' which is really a terrific script, you don't really get into the world that he's creating until you take that step with him, that first step into a world he's created in his mind.
looking robin searching trying
Edward's the kind of actor who is always nosing into it, trying to find it, looking for it, and searching and Robin is, too, but in his own way.
father son wife
The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife.
america racist
America's racist, so what do you expect.
country racist tendencies
It's unfortunate that the entire country is a racist country.We're living in a country that discriminates, and has certain racist tendencies.
dark unique funny-things
What you do with it and things like that, but I basically chose this after I read it because I thought it was different and funny and unique and dark - things that I like to do.