Jake LaMotta Quotes

In my ideal world there would be 99% unemployment for actors, and I would be the 1% that's employed. I hear about somebody getting a job at Starbucks and I get jealous.

I was always jealous of something getting more attention.

I really am disappointed when I run into people who are angry I'm leaving office.

I hate to play a tournament in which I'm not contending. It's just not any fun for me.

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

Any time there is a lot of money or ego involved, people tend to behave badly.

There will always be cheaters. It is human nature. It will never be 100 percent clean, in any sport.

I have to play as much of the game as I allow myself to get the music heard. But it's not unlike the rest of the world, so I'm not as up in arms about it as I could be.

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.

Now that I'm on top, everyone wants to bring me down. Everyone's trying to tug at me and take my spot.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Servility always curdles into rage in the end.

I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.

I was briefly bitter.

My job is discouraging in the extreme—it often tempts me to quit the helm in despair.

There are a lot of jealous people out there who would do anything to get this case into their jurisdiction.

Politics is a sucker’s game …

Sitting in marble corridors waiting for important people to lie to you.

Resist the temptation to exploit power for personal or group interests.

Don’t you shit me George. You and I know who has the power in Alabama.

Politics is war without the bloodshed.

Sometimes you have to do bad things to get into power so you can do good things when you get there.

Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect.

Whenever there is money, power, and titles involved, players are going to be corrupt. That might be a political statement, but that's what it is for the athletes, too.