55 Witty Quotes By Danny DeVito That Reveal His Innate Sense Of Humour
Danny DeVito is a renowned actor and filmmaker who has earned many prestigious awards throughout his long career spanning five decades. He is known for his witty and quirky one-liners about life and career that he shares with his audience. He is involved with several charitable organizations including Keep Memory Alive, Hollywood Arts Council, International Myeloma Foundation, Seany Foundation and Solar Neighbors Program. DeVito, who was affected by the rare genetic disorder Fairbank's disease as a child, supports charities dealing with AIDS and HIV, Alzheimer's disease and cancer. Below are some of his observations about the world, collected from his speeches and interviews. He also cares about social causes such as environment, health, poverty, education and development of creative arts.
It's unfortunate that the entire country is a racist country.We're living in a country that discriminates, and has certain racist tendencies.
Even if one doesn't smoke pot, one has to see the benefits of decriminalizing it.
We did 'Erin Brockovich,' we did 'Man on the Moon,' we did 'Living Out Loud,' but now I'm going to keep going.
So, you pick this stuff here and this stuff there and then you see things in certain ways and you start visualizing and thank God I get the chance to do this. It's really the greatest thing in the whole wide world.
I'm always studying and I've been doing it for a long time now.
I love going to all kinds of movies, I screen DVDs in my house, but I go to the theatre a lot in the afternoon. I don't get bugged because there aren't many people around.
What do you call 500 lawyers lying on the bottom of the Ocean? A good start.
I climbed like a billion stairs... its not like I can take them two at a time.
In order for the light of gratitude and happiness to shine so brightly, the darkness of how it could be worse must be present.
A lot of it revolves around food with me because a lot of my life does in a way.
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.
I don't know. I think it's funny! I think it's funny! I go, what? It's so absurd. I'm alone.
America's racist, so what do you expect.
A bad salesman will automatically drop his price. Bad salesmen make me sick.
I don’t look ahead. I’m right here with you. It’s a good way to be.
Everybody needs money. That's why they call it money.
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.
I'll tell you one thing, it's a cruel, cruel world.
The choices we make, dictate the lives we lead.
Christmas is a good excuse to eat everything.
A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful the way you lean.
It don't care whether I'm good enough. It don't care whether I snore or not. It don't care which God I pray to. There are only three things with that kind of unconditional acceptance: Dogs, donuts, and money.
We don't even know if we're in this room. We could be in a turtle's dream in outer space.
The whole point of love is to put someone else’s needs above your own.
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.
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.
We did 'Erin Brockovich', we did 'Man on the Moon', we did 'Living Out Loud', but now I'm going to keep going.
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.
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.
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.
