Chazz Palminteri dishes on the truth behind A Bronx Tale, fame, family and pasta
Hollywood icon and quintessential New Yorker Chazz Palminteri invites journalist and celebrity interviewer Kara Mayer Robinson to sit down and talk at his Italian restaurant in New York City for what's been called his best interview ever - on the Really Famous podcast. The actor and writer shares stories behind A Bronx Tale, his classic film and Broadway play. You'll hear about the night Robert De Niro showed up in his dressing room, how he feels about police officers, life lessons he got from his parents, why fame is like walking around with a loaded gun, how therapy has been key in his life, why there's an artist trapped in a street guy's body -- and a critical fact about himself that he didn't learn until he was a father.
CHAZZ PALMINTERI
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Chazz's REALLY FAMOUS Quotes
You'll hear all this - and more - on the REALLY FAMOUS podcast.
“I started running out of money in 1998.”
“I thought, well, if they won’t give me a part, I’ll write one myself.“
“I said, ‘No. I play Sonny and I write the screenplay.’”
“I do the show, packed house, and a guy walks over and says, ‘Hey, Robert De Niro is in your dressing room. He just saw the show.’ I go, ‘WHAT? You’re full of shit.’”
“I wish I would’ve studied harder in high school. I always wanted to go to a big-time college. But I wouldn’t have gotten in.”
“When I think of my life now I say, ‘Oh my God,, I had all this talent.’ But nobody was nurturing it. I was a street kid.”
“I love watching Seinfeld. I just love watching it. I can’t get enough of it.”
“I was an artist trapped into this street guy’s body.”
“Fame is something that will always catch you if you don’t be careful. Look in the papers, it happens all the time.”
“You gotta learn to make a great sauce.”