Schmuck Quotes

What I usually hate about these movies when suddenly the guy that you were digging turns into Dudley Do-Right, and then you`re supposed to buy into all his "Let`s go do some good!" That Eliot Ness-in-a-cape-type thing. What was really important to me was to not have him change so much that he`s unrecognizable. When someone used to be a schmuck and they`re not anymore, hopefully they still have a sense of humor.

My children need to have someone they can look up to, someone they can look at and say, Gee, I`d like to be just like him, So I don`t want to just bring some schmuck around them. When I meet people I have to think about are they going to be a good example for my sons.

I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad`s sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on.

Yeah, I made it. It sneaks up on you. You`re some schmuck and you wake up one day and you go, Good God, I`m the cheese.

Dad sometimes patted me on the knee and called me his Little Schmuck.

I`m ambivalent about Patton (1970). I`m kind of a half-assed pacifist and I must tell you, you know, your philosophy is as strong as your feelings on a particular day. If you`re feeling good and you`ve accomplished something, you can back your philosophies to the hilt. And I don`t know what happened, but I decided I`m not going to glorify this thing. I wasn`t going to glorify war . . . I was a schmuck, because if I did "Patton" half as good as Mr. Scott (George C. Scott), I might have walked into The Godfather (1972). So that was a big mistake.

My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That`s not why we don`t do it. We don`t do it because it is wrong.