Tony Danza
Tony Danza
Tony Danza is an Italian-American actor and former professional boxer. He is best known for starring on the TV series Taxi and Who's the Boss?, for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award and four Golden Globe Awards. In 1998, Danza won the People's Choice Award for Favorite Male Performer in a New Television Series for his work on the 1997 sitcom The Tony Danza Show...
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth21 April 1951
CityBrooklyn, NY
kids long tides
Hold back the tide. Keep your kids innocent as long as possible.
giving-up people ems
I love to cook and I know a lot of people watching love those segments, but so often they feel rushed to me. If we give 'em a bit more time to breathe, people will get more out of them.
uncles children grandmother
The great thing about getting married young like I did and having a child so young is that he gets to know all the relatives. He knew his great-grandmother, and we sat down together and tied down the stories of our uncles and aunts.
done looking-forward
I am looking forward to getting to do things I have never done before.
sorry thinking interesting
What's interesting is that I get messages from people who think I'm gone. I have messages like "Tony, we're so sorry. We loved you!"
teacher kids self
If you're a teacher you have to teach the curriculum, all that stuff, you have to teach morals, you have to teach values, and you have to teach, all-importantly, self-control. Because a lot of kids don't have it.
teaching poverty excuse
Poverty can't be an excuse for bad teaching, but teaching can't be the only thing we do to combat poverty.
kids want
We can't want an education for kids more than they want it for themselves.
teacher school kids
Look, when I got in trouble in school I got in trouble at home. Now when kids get in trouble at school, the teacher gets in trouble. So the families are important.
kept telling
Everyone kept telling me, Just be yourself. Be yourself. I kept thinking, there's got to be more to it than that!
shows
We did 112 shows and had 112 parties.
bad compelling help interviews train turned watching
Sometimes it's like watching a train wreck. You're uncomfortable, but you just can't help yourself. Some of those so-called bad interviews actually turned into compelling television.
guy joke love night promos since watched
The joke I wanted to put into one of the promos for this new season, was to have a guy come up to me and say, Hey! Tony! I love your show, I've watched you every night since you started! And then I'd say, Ah! You're the one!
call family join similar sure until watched
I got this call that they wanted me to join this cast. They called it a family show, and it thought that it would be similar to all family shows. I wasn't sure about this until I watched some tapes, and was amazed.