The best Quotes by Danny DeVito

The best Quotes by Danny DeVito

Daniel Michael DeVito Jr. (born November 17, 1944) is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. He's known for Taxi (1978–1983), It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2006–present), Batman Returns (1992), Matilda (1996), L.A. Confidential (1997), Hercules (1997), The Big Kahuna (1999), Jumanji: The Next Level (2019), and The Lorax (2012).

Lawyers are like nuclear weapons, I've got em 'cause everyone else has. But as soon as you use them they screw everything up.
I'll tell you one thing, it's a cruel, cruel world.
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.
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'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.
I don't look ahead. I'm right here with you. It's a good way to be.

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Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
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Change the way things are. I know it may seem small and insignificant, but it's not about what it is, it's about what it can become.
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When a guy does something stupid once, well that's because he's a guy. But if he does the same stupid thing twice, that's usually to impress some girl.
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And why do we fall, Bruce? So we can learn to pick ourselves up!
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You see, madness, as you know, is like gravity. All it takes is a little push!
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Sometimes the truth isn't good enough, sometimes people deserve more. Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded...
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I believe whatever doesn't kill you, simply makes you... stranger.
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Salvatore Maroni: "If it's so simple, why haven't you done it already?"
Joker: "If you're good at something, never do it for free!"
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The night is darkest just before the dawn. And I promise you, the dawn is coming.
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Franklin Finbar: "You are a terrible driver!"
Smolder Bravestone: "What are you talking about? I just passed my driver’s test last month... again."
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This next adventure is even more challenging. This time, not all of you will leave the game alive. And remember, the future of Jumanji is in your hands.
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Are you crying? You don't cry, all right? You keep your chin up. Come on, keep your chin up. Crying never helped anybody do anything, okay? You have a problem you face it like a man.
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Alan: "It was a crocodile. Alligators don't have that little fringe on their hind leg."
Sarah: "My mistake."
Sarah Whittle in Jumanji
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Judy Shepherd: "A law of the jungle has been broken - it will set back more than your token."
Sarah Whittle: "You tried to cheat?"
Peter Shepherd: "I tried to drop the dice so they would land on twelve."
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Jumanji. A game for those who seek to find a way to leave their world behind. You roll the dice to move your token. Doubles gets another turn. And the first player to reach the end wins.
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They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops. And that's true. What they don't tell you, is that once time starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up.
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Sometimes, the only way to catch an uncatchable woman is to offer her a wedding ring.
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Kept in a small bowl, they will remain small. With more space, the fish can double, triple or quadruple its size.
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In telling the story of my father's life, it's impossible to separate the fact from the fiction, the man from the myth. The best I can do is to tell it the way he told me. It doesn't always make sense, and most of it never happened. But that's what kind of story this is.
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You see, most men, they'll tell a story straight through— it won't be complicated, but it won't be interesting either.
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It was that night I discovered that most things you consider evil or wicked are simply lonely, and lacking in social niceties.
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Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable.
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It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.
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The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.
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So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.
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All the reading she had done had given her a view of life they had never seen.
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I'm right and you're wrong, I'm big and you're small, and there's nothing you can do about it.
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This is why you never go to New Jersey!
The results of a new study are out this week saying that New Jersey is one of the most livable states in the country. The study has a margin of error of 100 percent.
Just when you thought things couldn't get any worse, we gotta go to Jersey.
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Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.
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For the soul, laughing is what oxygen is for the lungs.
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It's not about the absence of fear. It's overcoming it.
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If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.
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My father always said, "Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf" - so I make sure I read.
We think too much and feel too little.
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If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live?
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