His [Frank Sinatra] voice defined not only a certain period of time, but America and what America meant to the world. Sinatra grew up, as my grandparents did, when being Italian was very, very prejudice against, but they didn't let… — Robert Davi Copy Share Image
Concurrently, while I was in school, while I was winning awards for acting, I was winning awards for singing, in high school. One of the reasons why I decided to continue on with the acting was the opera world is fraught with a very long process, and I did love the acting, as well. The acting took off sooner, and… — Robert Davi Copy Share
My daughter [Ariana], she's a sweet, lovely girl, but she doesn't have the drive or the belief in herself. As it says in the film, I get touched up thinking about it, no one can give you a career. You have to have that inner drive. She wants it, but she doesn't know how to go for it, she's too… — Robert Davi Copy Share
Hollywood is a very liberal community. There are a lot of guys that are also conservative that are frightened or fearful of being able to come out. And there's also the alternative. I'm one of the few conservatives that are involved with the Creative Coalition. It's trying to propagate the arts in schools and education, and a lot of things… — Robert Davi Copy Share
I met Quincy [Jones], he had heard my album, someone played the album and he flipped over it. — Robert Davi Copy Share Image
I think back, when I saw The Great Gatsby, the film, my grandfather probably helped supply all the alcohol to all these Southampton parties,… — Robert Davi Copy Share Image
You have to have a certain kind of celebrity to pull something that big together, but I had a whole thing called The Spirit… — Robert Davi Copy Share Image
You have your children and it's hard to even hold it in - emotionally. — Robert Davi Copy Share Image
[Frank] Sinatra, to everyone, even Tony Bennett, was such a huge influence because he had mastered not only music, but film and radio. — Robert Davi Copy Share Image
Here I was in Estonia, doing a concert for 5,000 people, and not many people know the song My Way - Gorbachev in the 80s, My Way had just become a famous song, and [Mikhail] Gorbachev in a satirical, kind of cynical manner coined the term the Sinatra Doctrine and My Way was the song because the Baltic states in… — Robert Davi Copy Share
My grandmother told a story that when they used to leave from Southampton to go into the City, because he had apartment buildings in Queens - I was born in Astoria, Queens - they had apartment buildings in Queens and Manhattan, different businesses, and she wanted to pick blueberries on the side of the road and he wouldn't stop, so… — Robert Davi Copy Share
I was born in the 50s, my mom was pregnant in the 50s, [Frank] Sinatra had that big come back around then, From Here… — Robert Davi Copy Share Image
In the eighth grade I found I had a voice for opera, so I followed that path a little, but my impulse has always… — Robert Davi Copy Share Image
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