Chazz Palminteri
Birthday: 15 May 1952, New York City, New York, USA
Birth Name: Calogero Lorenzo Palminteri
Height: 189 cm
Bronx-born and raised Chazz Palminteri was a natural choice to continue the Italianate torch in film. In the tradition set forth in the 1970s by such icons as director Martin Scorsese and actors Rober ...Show More
[re his Bronx childhood] The big guys used to beat up the little guys, and the little guys used to b Show more
[re his Bronx childhood] The big guys used to beat up the little guys, and the little guys used to beat up the real little guys. If you were a little guy, you'd become a big guy and then beat up the little guys underneath you. Kids now, all they do is sit down and play Facebook. I was on the stoop, and I saw a man kill another man right in front of me. People go, 'You must have been traumatized!' I really wasn't. I just saw this guy kill a guy, and my father dragged me upstairs, we talked about it, I didn't rat on the guy, and that was it. Hide
I think the lessons I learned growing up in the streets in the Bronx were never tip your hand too so Show more
I think the lessons I learned growing up in the streets in the Bronx were never tip your hand too soon. Always keep your cards close to the vest. Hide
I speak as much as I can about the working man in the Italian-American community. It's the working m Show more
I speak as much as I can about the working man in the Italian-American community. It's the working man who makes up the heart of the community. The Italian-Americans I play are mobsters who have a heart or a positive element. Hide
On the Waterfront (1954) is still the greatest movie ever made.
On the Waterfront (1954) is still the greatest movie ever made.
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Chazz Palminteri'S roles
Primo Sidone
Detective Rydell
Shorty
Smokey
Buster
Dave Kujan
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