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You study all your life, you work really hard to do your best work onstage and onscreen, and then you make your best money playing an ant.

~Alex Rocco

Topics: All Your Life Ant Best Best Work Do Your Best Hard Life Make Money Onscreen Onstage Playing Really Study Then Work You Your

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Some people go to acting classes to learn. I just kind of went for the dates.

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Topics: Acting Acting Classes Classes Dates Go Just Just Kind Kind Learn People Some Some People

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I worked in this bar called the Raincheck Room in the '60s; it used to be over on Santa Monica Boulevard, and, y'know, it was a pretty hip place. Lots of actors hung out there.

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Topics: Actor Bar Boulevard Hip Hung Lots Monica Out Over Place Pretty Room Santa Santa Monica Used Worked

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With Peter O'Toole, you just had nothing but fun.

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Topics: Fun Had Just Nothing Peter You

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I was a young kid; I did a little time in the Billerica House of Correction, and it basically turned my life around because I said, 'Oh, I'll never be locked up again. They're not taking away my privacy.' So I flipped a coin: heads - Miami, tails -California.

~Alex Rocco

Topics: Again Around Away Basically Because California Coin Correction Did Flipped Heads House Kid Life Little Little Time Locked Locked Up Miami My Life Never Oh Privacy Said Tails Taking Time Turned Up Young Young Kid

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Playing gangsters is great. They usually dress you sharp. And you have a license to pretty much bully anybody. I mean, I wouldn't dare do that at home. My wife will give me a back hander.

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Topics: Anybody Back Bully Dare Dress Gangsters Give Give Me Great Home License Me Mean Much Playing Pretty Sharp Wife Will You

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I'm Italian. I wouldn't know how to play a Jew.

~Alex Rocco

Topics: How Italian Jew Know Play

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I don't mean you have to be overbearing, but you have to stay on top of things - read the trades, know what's going on in the town. I call it 'dare to be stupid.' The worst thing they can say is, 'We got nothing for you.' So I've hustled a lot.

~Alex Rocco

Topics: Call Dare Going Got Know Lot Mean Nothing Read Say Stay Stupid Thing Things Top Town Trades Worst Worst Thing You

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I learned to bet the Red Sox, the Celtics, Suffolk Downs. I thought it was a glorious life - pull up to the doughnut shop, spread out, and plan your day.

~Alex Rocco

Topics: Bet Day Doughnut Downs Glorious Learned Life Out Plan Pull Red Red Sox Shop Sox Spread Thought Up Your

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I saw a bakery truck go by with the name 'Rocco' on it, and that's when I decided to become Alex Rocco.

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Topics: Alex Bakery Become Decided Go Name Saw Truck

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: February 29th, 1936

Died: July 18th, 2015

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