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"The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I've seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic."
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"If I still need someone to calm my anger down,then I surely need a scapegoat who enrages me."
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"Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive."
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"Never get angry. If you have to get angry, get angry at yourself and not at others."
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"If you cannot stop yourself from getting angry, then at least get angry about things that matters."
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"The whole world dislikes kashays (inner weakness of anger-pride-deceit-greed) and yet, all the kashays of the world are done willfully. One doesn't like to be angry and yet he claims anger is necessary."
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"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."
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"Getting angry means setting fire to your own wealth."
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"Blow wind and crack your cheeks. Rage! Blow!"
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"Anger is a ghost.Human is the host."
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"Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts."
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"For TV I don't think I could have gotten a better part than Uncle Junior because of the intimacy of the character based on David Chase's brilliant writing."
Character
"My father was an American who could cuss in Italian and make an aria out of it. It was wonderful to watch. But then again, he was a Gemini. I believe in that stuff."
Father
"I went to Brooklyn College and met this beautiful Jewish girl named Merle, with dark hair, exotic looking and brilliant. So we got married and had three children."
Children
"I went on tour in the play H.M.S. Pinafore."
Play
"I had to audition for the part of Jnior, and I wanted the role terribly because I knew it was a great character. This guy is a wonderful, funny, mean old guy."
Funny
"I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them."
Mother
"They would wake me up when I was sleeping, and say sing a song for our friends. I had a sweet voice, I had a nice little tenor voice. God knows what I sang, but my whole family would admire me."
Family
"Uncle Junior is a criminal, which makes him a villain, so it makes people want to watch him. My whole life as an actor has been preparing for something like this."
Life
"The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I've seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic."
Anger
"I think Pirandello had something to say to people about what truth really is."
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