Raging Quotes

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn`t want to see my kids do the same thing.

(on Raging Bull (1980)): (Robert De Niro) wanted to make this film. Not me. I don`t understand anything about boxing. For me, it`s like a physical game of chess.

(to producer Irwin Winkler, recounted in Peter Biskind`s book "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls") Remember me? I used to be Peter Bogdanovich.

(from 1983) I get offered so many bad movies. And they`re all raging queens or transvestites or Martians.

(Recalling a period he went through when he was 18): I watched Raging Bull (1980) like 50 times. I wanted to be Italian. For a year I was Italian; that`s all I did. I could do all that New York street stuff to the point where I would get feedback from my auditions, "He`s too New York, he`s too urban" and I was from San Francisco, really.

I`m just so honored that the universe chose me to be the spark that has set off a raging inferno.

I wanted Raging Bull. I wanted Casino. I got Rocky and Bullwinkle. But that`s OK, because I still get to tell people I`ve worked with Robert DeNiro.

(pitching the proposal for Mononoke-hime (1997)) There cannot be a happy ending to the fight between the raging gods and humans. However, even in the middle of hatred and killings, there are things worth living for. A wonderful meeting, or a beautiful thing can exist. We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation. What we should depict is, how the boy understands the girl, and the process in which the girl opens her heart to the boy. At the end, the girl will say to the boy, "I love you, Ashitaka. But I cannot forgive humans." Smiling, the boy should say, "That is fine. Live with me."

I`ll be arriving at the last possible minute and walking on stage raging and pillaging and then disappearing immediately afterwards.

Standing, as I believe the United States stands for humanity and civilization, we should exercise every influence of our great country to put a stop to that war which is now raging in Cuba and give to that island once more peace, liberty, and independence.

I am raging and I just wish my players felt as badly as I do.

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy`s life that he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure