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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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"A moment of anger is a moment of resentment and madness which can burn your heart."
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"It is useless to fight fire with fire. When you're offended, it is instinctive to want to fight back in anger."
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"Anger is the most effective inspiration."
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"As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger, panic, despair and helplessness."
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"Anger was a weapon to be honed and treasured and used only at the moment yielding most premium."
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"Anger is the agro-chemical that makes the weeds of failure to germinate and compete with your crops of success. Don't apply it."
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"If you are not angry with your average performance, you can't effect a change! You must get upset to grab the energy to break the fence confining you!"
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"All the subjects of the world can be included in the kashays of anger-pride-deceit-greed. Anger and deceit are the 'protectors'. They have indeed originated from greed. A proud person will have greed for self-validation and recognition from others. And deceit protects it."
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"Anger cannot be dishonest."
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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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"I went on tour in the play H.M.S. Pinafore."
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"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
"The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language."
Comedy
"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
"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 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
"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
"When I started really singing I was 17, 18 years old. I used to go around trying to be a singer in the Bronx. My knees would shake but I learned by doing."
Old
"I've always wanted to play Don Quixote in some way. It's a great role. I think the idealism of the man shows that hope that we have in the human breast to achieve something."
Hope
"I tried to become a family man. I got married, but it didn't work out. After 22 months we got an annulment. Then I married an Italian girl, which resulted in an immediate annulment. I had two annulments by the time I was 23."
Family
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