Robert Davi

Concurrently, while I was in school, while I was winning awards for acting, I was winning awards for singing, in high school.…

— Robert Davi

My daughter [Ariana], she's a sweet, lovely girl, but she doesn't have the drive or the belief in herself. As it says…

— Robert Davi

Hollywood is a very liberal community. There are a lot of guys that are also conservative that are frightened or fearful of…

— Robert Davi

I met Quincy [Jones], he had heard my album, someone played the album and he flipped over it.

— Robert Davi

I think back, when I saw The Great Gatsby, the film, my grandfather probably helped supply all the alcohol to all these…

— Robert Davi

You have to have a certain kind of celebrity to pull something that big together, but I had a whole thing called…

— Robert Davi

You have your children and it's hard to even hold it in - emotionally.

— Robert Davi

[Frank] Sinatra, to everyone, even Tony Bennett, was such a huge influence because he had mastered not only music, but film and…

— Robert Davi

Here I was in Estonia, doing a concert for 5,000 people, and not many people know the song My Way - Gorbachev…

— Robert Davi

My grandmother told a story that when they used to leave from Southampton to go into the City, because he had apartment…

— Robert Davi

I was born in the 50s, my mom was pregnant in the 50s, [Frank] Sinatra had that big come back around then,…

— Robert Davi

In the eighth grade I found I had a voice for opera, so I followed that path a little, but my impulse…

— Robert Davi

As a kid, you either wanted to play Bond or a Bond villain. Ask any of my friends in entertainment, whether they…

— Robert Davi

Quincy [Jones] is one of the greatest world figures, of all-time. I mean he's up there with Muhammad Ali, as far as…

— Robert Davi

In an Italian household, there were two figures for me growing up - you had the Pope and you had Frank Sinatra,…

— Robert Davi

My parents, the effect that [Frank Sinatra] had on the Italian community, in terms of all our friends at the house were…

— Robert Davi

His [Frank Sinatra] voice defined not only a certain period of time, but America and what America meant to the world. Sinatra…

— Robert Davi

And just everyone in the 40s, you got to realize, for his time period, take Justin Bieber and put it on steroids…

— Robert Davi

I didn't want to become this stiffened - and that was just a personal choice, at that time. And, the idea was…

— Robert Davi

I had always been affected by films, as well, of course - and great films.

— Robert Davi

I had a little bit of a vocal strain at a certain period of time that made me lay off the singing,…

— Robert Davi

I would want to bring a certain kind of unity and awareness to different things. Even in the 80s, I wanted to…

— Robert Davi

I studied with Stella Adler and I didn't like the representational aspect of most opera singers. Most of the opera singers had…

— Robert Davi

I just sang, recently, for the Prime Minister of Bangladesh - the 34th most powerful woman in the world, according to Forbes…

— Robert Davi

The music and the message, to me, is something that is imperative and that's what drives me know.

— Robert Davi