Danny Devito
Danny Devito
Daniel Michael "Danny" DeVitois an American actor, comedian, producer and director. He gained prominence for his portrayal of the taxi dispatcher Louie De Palma in Taxiwhich won him a Golden Globe and an Emmy...
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth17 November 1944
CityNeptune, NJ
created creating script step terrific until
Even when you read the script of 'Big Fish,' which is really a terrific script, you don't really get into the world that he's creating until you take that step with him, that first step into a world he's created in his mind.
flies flute goes lands side standing
This big part flies off on the floor. The other part goes like this and lands in my foot! Standing up! It's standing in my foot! Right in the side of my foot. The flute glass. I think I'm like in one of my own pictures.
clout greed time underlying using
I didn't do it because of the underlying greed that's prevailing, but it is about greed, doing the right thing at the right time using your clout when you have it and what for and what reason.
boxing couple developed line sweet
I developed that for a long time. I also developed 'Sugar Sweet Science' at New Line and that didn't happen. That was a boxing movie. And between all that there were a couple of other things.
funny reason unique
Well, you know, I feel like it's about a lot of things. The reason that I made it was because I thought it was really funny and unique and just a different genre.
towers looks sandwiches
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.
dream space turtles
We don't even know if we're in this room. We could be in a turtle's dream in outer space.
thank-you thank-god world
So, you pick this stuff here and this stuff there and then you see things in certain ways and you start visualizing and thank God I get the chance to do this. It's really the greatest thing in the whole wide world.
funny sarcastic lying
What do you call 500 lawyers lying on the bottom of the Ocean? A good start..
funny believe thinking
I'm shooting in Brooklyn, we've got all kinds of crap going on, and I'm all alone now in a big hotel suite that you can't believe the size of it and a thing sticks in my foot and I just think it's the funniest thing that's ever happened to me.
achievement smarter
What would a smarter person than me do? Then do it!