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
skulls two dilemma
There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?
fall tree way
A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful the way you lean.
nuclear ems use
Of course I've got lawyers. They are like nuclear weapons, I've got em 'cause everyone else has. But as soon as you use them they screw everything up.
fun thinking safe
It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.
dream space turtles
We don't even know if we're in this room. We could be in a turtle's dream in outer space.
love-is needs whole
The whole point of love is to put someone else’s needs above your own.
towers looks sandwiches
I've been to the Leaning Tower of Pisa. It's a tower, and it's leaning. You look at it, but nothing happens, so then you look for someplace to get a sandwich.
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.
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.
achievement smarter
What would a smarter person than me do? Then do it!
funny reason unique
Well, you know, I feel like it's about a lot of things. The reason that I made it was because I thought it was really funny and unique and just a different genre.
arts living love outside south theater york
I'll tell you one thing. I love Philadelphia. One of the first things I did outside of New York was at the Theater of the Living Arts on South Street.
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.
created creating script step terrific until
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.