Sonny Quotes

(On being voted "Italian of the Year" in New York twice, after his role as Sonny Corleone in The Godfather (1972)): I`m a Jew from the Bronx. I feel guilty about accepting these awards, but they wouldn`t let me turn them down.

(on being confused with his character from The Godfather (1972)) I`ll bump into a guy in a bar, and he`ll say, "I`m sorry, Sonny!" It`s surreal.

If it was up to them, I`d be playing Sonny Corleone my entire life. Usually, if there weren`t eight people dead by page 11, they wouldn`t send me the script. People say, "Gee, you do a lot of mafia movies". I think I`ve done two, out of 60.

Sonny Liston is too ugly to be world heavyweight champion!.

says Stanley Crouch, the writer who long urged Rollins to trust Smith. ``It actually creates a kind of a reevaluation of what we consider musical creativity. When you hear this, these chumps in hip-hop and rock, they`re jokes compared to Sonny Rollins.

Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things.

Sonny doesn`t think running around killing people is the greatest thing, but it`s his curse. Now he feels maybe his brother is cursed, too.

It`s a dramatic shift for my character. He has put away the hatred for his brother - the sibling rivalry, the envy. At the core of him is respect for what he knows Sonny to be, and the subtext that he can save his brother.

I also thought of myself as the Sonny Barger of the film industry.

They used to say it was bad for Indians to drink, but it`s bad for anybody. When they drink they lose their cool, a lot of us. Like when we played with Sonny Boy, I would never get paid, you know. He would drink up all the money.

They used to say it was bad for Indians to drink, but it`s bad for anybody. When they drink they lose their cool, a lot of us. Like when we played with Sonny Boy, I would never get paid, you know. He would drink up all the money.