Quotes by Tony Danza

About Tony Danza:

Tony Danza is an American actor. 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 (not to be confused with his 2004-2006 daytime variety talk show of the same name).
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We are cutting things kids like-music, art, and gym classes; stuff that kept me in school. This country can't survive without you kids. It's all about you kids.

Tony Danza

the prospect of beginning a third- act career scared me almost as much as it attracted me.

Tony Danza

Teaching is different today. Teachers don’t just stand at the board and lecture while the kids take notes. What we’re ultimately teaching them is to teach themselves.

Tony Danza

Don't try too hard to be young. Be who you are.

Tony Danza

Everyone kept telling me, Just be yourself. Be yourself. I kept thinking, there's got to be more to it than that!

Tony Danza

Hold back the tide. Keep your kids innocent as long as possible.

Tony Danza

I am looking forward to getting to do things I have never done before.

Tony Danza

I did Vibe, and I felt old and paternal. I've got ties older than people in that audience. I had a talk with myself. I said, You've got to deal with this better.

Tony Danza

In an earthquake, I shouldn't run out of the house - I should run into it.

Tony Danza

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.

Tony Danza

We did 112 shows and had 112 parties.

Tony Danza

I'm a union guy; I've always been. I've been in SAG 35 years; my father was a garbage man, a sanitation man, for the city, a union guy.

Tony Danza

I was training in Gleason's Gym on 30th and 8th Avenue, where it was the Mecca of boxing, and a guy walked in who couldn't rub two quarters together and said, 'Did you ever think of being on TV?' And somehow I ended up in 'Taxi,' which is the crazies...

Tony Danza

I am a singer and dancer, and I've been perfecting it for a lot of years.

Tony Danza

The part in 'Taxi' was originally written for a guy named Phil Ryan, so they made it Phil Banta, and then they made it Tony Banta, which sounded a lot better anyway.

Tony Danza

I want to do a book called 'Shopping and Cooking for One with Tony Danza,' where I will show you how to shop. And, by the way, it should be a movement, because there are many single people in this world. You go to the supermarket, and you need celery...

Tony Danza

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.

Tony Danza

There was a time when watching a cartoon was a nurturing experience. You would watch a Warner Bros. cartoon, and at the end of it you could probably win 'Jeopardy.'

Tony Danza

I'm an American songbook guy, though I've got eclectic tastes. I really love the American songbook. I've taken up the ukulele, and so you can play 'Five Foot Two' and Hawaiian music, but you can also do some of the great tunes, like 'You Go to My Hea...

Tony Danza

I worked at an old folks' home once in Harlem, and I was an activities volunteer. I used to do all these plays with the old people. I did 'The Wizard of Oz;' it was adapted. There was a guy there who played the harmonica, so we had an overture, and T...

Tony Danza

Author Bio

  • NameTony Danza
  • DescriptionAmerican actor and former boxer
  • BornApril 21, 1951
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Television Actor; Television Presenter; Teacher