Danny DeVito quotes

Born
November 17, 1944, Neptune Township, New Jersey, U.S.

Occupation
Actor.

Danny DeVito is an American actor.

Movies
Dumbo (2019)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)

I’ll tell you one thing, it’s a cruel, cruel world.
– Danny DeVito

I am self-centred. I just adore myself.
– Danny DeVito

Jersey is always with me. I was one of the lucky ones. Asbury Park is just the greatest place in the world to spend your childhood.
– Danny DeVito

You have to give people permission to laugh. That’s why they would always cut to the banana peel in the Laurel and Hardy movies.
– Danny DeVito

I love women. I mean, I’m married, but I used to get in all kinds of trouble.
– Danny DeVito

I have been very fortunate in my life. I have had a lot of happiness. I have a great family and I work a lot, and that’s what I like to do.
– Danny DeVito

My parents worked their tails off, but we weren’t the poorest people in town. Some people I went to school with, you could tell they were dirt poor.
– Danny DeVito

I’ll watch Ricky Gervais in anything he does. The guy’s hilarious.
– Danny DeVito

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.
– Danny DeVito

The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife.
– Danny DeVito

It’s fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you’re not safe, when you’re not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.
– Danny DeVito

There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won’t stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won’t go?
– Danny DeVito

After you’ve lived with somebody for 11 years, what’s a guy in a robe reading from a book going to change?
– Danny DeVito

Jersey is always with me. I was one of the lucky ones. Asbury Park is just the greatest place in the world to spend your childhood.
– Danny DeVito

I don’t look ahead. I’m right here with you. It’s a good way to be.
– Danny DeVito

I’m always studying and I’ve been doing it for a long time now.
– Danny DeVito

We did ‘Erin Brockovich’, we did ‘Man on the Moon’, we did ‘Living Out Loud’, but now I’m going to keep going.
– Danny DeVito