My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.

It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.

Vanity is my favourite sin.

My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.

I don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx.

Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions. And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.

I don't ever give my opinion. Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.

I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience.

I remember acting in a school play about the melting pot when I was very little. There was a great big pot onstage. On the other side of the pot was a little girl who had dark hair, and she and I were representing the Italians. And I thought: Is that what an Italian looked like?

I used to wear disguises, like hats and false beards, just to walk around and avoid attention.

I was not prepared for fame. It hit me hard, and I did not have the capacity to cope.

I'm so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.

I've always been in the theater. I've always gone to it. That's been my way to cope. Early on in my career, I remember running - fleeing - to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.

I've never cared for guns. In fact, when I did 'Scent of a Woman' I had to learn how to assemble one.

In America most everybody who's Italian is half Italian. Except me. I'm all Italian. I'm mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.

It would be hard to play a character you don't like - for me anyway - or can't find something in them to like.

Money makes your life easier. If you're lucky to have it, you're lucky.

Most everybody who's Italian is half Italian. Except me. I'm all Italian. I'm mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

My grandmother always came to my shows. She was always concerned about the way I dressed - even later on, when I was well known and I supported her.

Some of the roles that are challenging are more in theater and TV. In movies, there's a tendency to cast actors in roles that have been successful for them. It has to pay for itself.

That's where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that's what I like. I've always felt that's what I would like to do.

The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.

The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You're in a conversation and everybody's agreeing with what you're saying - even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear.

The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I'm talking about.

There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.

When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff, or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?

I dont understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians its a concept I honestly cannot grasp. To me its not who you love a man a woman what have you its the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.

Its easy to fool the eye but its hard to fool the heart.

I believe in one day at a time; you've got TODAY, that's what you' ve got.

Theater for me at one point was a lifestyle, too.

Some people had fathers who were bankers or farmers, my father made films, that's how I saw it. As for the movie stars, they were just around, some of them were friends, others weren't, it was all just a part of my everyday life.

Break a vase and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.

I love improv so much. Listening. I think that's the key. When you improvise, you put a lot of pressure on yourself to create, and to be generating information, and trying to be funny, but if you just listen to what's being said to you, and then react honestly, you generally get better results.

I love Ozomatli, this L.A. band that makes great coffee. They are half American, half Mexican, their coffee's great, and they're very good friends.

We could hang around for ten years and nobody would care enough to identify us. Therein lies the horror.

I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'

During the 1970s, inflation expectations rose markedly because the Federal Reserve allowed actual inflation to ratchet up persistently in response to economic disruptions - a development that made it more difficult to stabilize both inflation and employment.

There's not a day that goes by that I don't draw on my undergraduate background in psychology.

Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.

How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? We're supposed to be the party of personal freedom and civil liberties.

I haven't really had that many opportunities to play 'lead' so I guess I jumped at the chance. I have also never done any 'sci-fi' projects and thought it might be fun.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

As a child, I certainly wanted to have hair that I could grow long and flip around. I no longer want that. My own hair that I have day to day is a fuzzy afro. And that's who I am.

I love New Orleans.

When you have a child, as anyone knows who has them, that's basically all you want to talk about.

Take away freedom of speech and the creative faculties dry up.

I wasn't like a girly girl. I was a tomboy.

Sometimes big designers are afraid that people won't recognize them if they change that much.