Vincent Gallo Quotes

Thoughts from the acclaimed writer / director / actor / producer / composer / model / former bandmate of Jean Michel Basquiat / professional motorcycle racer /
artist / rapper / Republican / charming asshole.

Also, his sperm is available for purchase.

I`m not an artist, I`m a hustler. As a hustler I`ve done many things. You should really believe it when I tell you that, `cause I`m not being sarcastic. I`m a total hustler. What that means is I`ve hustled to make a buck and I`ve hustled to change the world and I`ve hustled to take revenge - but it`s always hustling. I`ve never had a career or a single goal. I`ve never been formally educated. To get things together, to make a living, I constantly have to hustle.

I don`t trust or love anyone. Because people are so creepy. Creepy creepy creeps. Creeping around. Creeping here and creeping there. Creeping everywhere. Crippity crappity creepies.

I became an actor, because of Danny Bonaduce on the Partridge Family". He`s tremendous, so funny and brilliant, and we seemed around the same age, I felt I should be on a show with him. We could have done a good spin-off, "the Danny Bonaduce, Vinnie Gallo show", da-da-da-da- da di da da."

I`m so in love with the United States. Not as a patriot. I`m in love with America like it`s my first girlfriend. The geography, the people, the smell, the touch, the taste, the gas stations. I`m madly in love with America. Madly in love. And I was the guy that people used to say, He`s so European." I mean, I never felt like that. I don`t relate to those monkeys. I just can`t relate to them. I`m a super American--Captain America.

I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings. And I did it out of spite.

My parents took an interest in nothing, at home no books, no records. My mother and my father are the emblem of indifference, dryness and bad taste. My father is also terribly stingy, in life as well as in feelings: I have never seen him filling up the bathtub. To save, he used to put the water 4 inches from the bottom. At home everything was ugly, casual, lacking in love, from furniture to clothes, to behaviors...

I never wanted to be an actor. I never want to be an actor. I want to be a movie star. The whole idea of having to act is too gruesome. It`s too ambitious for me.