Quotes by Robert Davi

Robert Davi

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

Film

Influence

Radio

And just everyone in the 40s, you got to realize, for his time period, take Justin Bieber and put it on steroids – there was no one like Frank Sinatra before that. And you didn’t have the amount of outlets that you have today and the variety that you have today. So, the Great American Songbook united the nation unlike any other music, because there weren’t so many different kinds of communications.

Communication

Different

Today

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 then you get involved with that.

Awards

School

Winning

Everyone, young and old, was responding to [Frank] Sinatra. So, the first time that I physically remember, it was as a youth. He always seemed to be there, let me put it that way. I can’t remember the exact first time, but I can remember the effect his voice had on me.

Firsts

Voice

Way

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 the Warsaw Pact wanted to go their own way and secede from the Soviet Union, so joking he says,” Yeah, we’ve got the Sinatra Doctrine now.”

Cynical

People

Song

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 it bring them down or use it as an excuse.

America

Italian

Voice

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 I believe in. It’s a bipartisan thing, but when there is this strong partisanship… The other thing is, I’m pro-life, that’s absolute, but I’m for live and let live. I’m an entertainer, I don’t believe in stopping anyone’s freedoms of lifestyle.

Art

Believe

Strong

I didn’t want to become this stiffened – and that was just a personal choice, at that time. And, the idea was also to go to film first, get enough notoriety in film that I could interpret some of the opera stuff the way I would want to interpret it.

Choices

Firsts

Ideas

I had a different upbringing – my dad worked three jobs. You know, it wasn’t as easy as they had it.

Dad

Different

Jobs

I had a little bit of a vocal strain at a certain period of time that made me lay off the singing, and while I was lying off the singing, I was pursuing the acting.

Acting

Lying

Singing

Follow The Behaviour University in order to get the greatest quotes from the greatest people of all time so that you can tap into your own greatness.

Acting

Albums

Alcohol

America

Art

Artist

Assembly

Awards

Beautiful

Believe

Born

Children

China

Choices

Communication

Country

Courses

Cynical

Dad

Daughter

Different

Enough

Eternity

Father

Film

First Love

Firsts

Girl

Grandma

Grandmother

Growing Up

Guy

Heard

Ideas

Imperatives

Influence

Italian

Jobs

Knows

Listening

Lying

Mean

Meaningful

Men

Messages

Mets

Military

Mom

Mother

Moving

The Future Blueprint

Tool

The Home Therapist: Anti Anxiety

Tool

The Autobiography

Tool

The Behaviour Diary

Tool

The Dating Diary

Tool

The Relationship Therapist

Tool

Quotes by Robert Davi

Robert Davi

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

Everyone, young and old, was responding to [Frank] Sinatra. So, the first time that I physically remember, it was as a youth. He always seemed to be there, let me put it that way. I can’t remember the exact first time, but I can remember the effect his voice had on me.

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 it bring them down or use it as an excuse.

I didn’t want to become this stiffened – and that was just a personal choice, at that time. And, the idea was also to go to film first, get enough notoriety in film that I could interpret some of the opera stuff the way I would want to interpret it.

I had a different upbringing – my dad worked three jobs. You know, it wasn’t as easy as they had it.

I had a little bit of a vocal strain at a certain period of time that made me lay off the singing, and while I was lying off the singing, I was pursuing the acting.

Get Social with TBU

Topics by Robert Davi

Popular Tools

The Future Blueprint

The Home Therapist: Anti Anxiety

The Autobiography

The Behaviour Diary

The Dating Diary

The Relationship Therapist

Menu

Menu