You don't have to be worried about labeling me.

My mother was the total influence. My father was what we call a nomadic person; he was a wanderer.

The choreographer for the Milton Berle show wanted me to audition. I walked away from that.

My entire family were Democrats all our lives. But because how furious I was about the previous administration, I turned in my card to become a Republican. I did not want to be known as a Democrat under that person's regime.

I don't know anyone who curses the way they do on the Sopranos. Not in an Italian household. I never said the word hell in front of my mother.

Death can't be so bad if mom went through it. It makes it easier for the child to follow.

People have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world, I don't care where it is, when they look at me it's not about my intelligence. It's who can I beat up.

I'm a traditionalist. I have certain values I live by.

You don't have to be worried about labeling me.

I have sons, and they have never said the word hell in front of me or my wife. That's the truth.

An album is such a personal thing. It's something I always wanted to do. It's me doing me, singing as me.

If I stunk for some reason, you can always blame it on the character.

There was certainly less profanity in the Godfather than in the Sopranos. There was a kind of respect. It's not that I totally agreed with it, but it was a great piece of art.

At some point in my life, before I was gone, I wanted to make an album, even if it was for no reason other than posterity.

I fell in love with the most beautiful girl in the Bronx.

I need distractions. Good distractions, not bad ones. A good distraction for me is a great play.

I used to make up stories about my father. I would go to the movies and look for a character who looked like my father.

I was 40 when I did my first movie.

I was just so blatantly shy throughout my life.

If I didn't start singing in the cabarets and on my albums, I could have never even tried something like 'Capone.'

Look, people have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world, I don't care where it is, when they look at me it's not about my intelligence. It's who can I beat up.

My father never saw me play ball, and I was an outstanding ballplayer. I missed all that adoration.

My father was a good man, but he was a con man. He was a wanderer, nomadic.

My father was never around. It was almost as if he didn't exist. I would tell my friends he was in Cleveland, on business. Sometimes, every six months or so, he would come by for dinner.

People call me an instinctive actor. I used to consider that an insult early on, only because I had never studied. Now... I love it.

We talk about Hollywood being pro-labor, yet about 70% of our industry has been farmed out to Canada, meaning we are losing jobs like crazy. Where's organized labor asking how we can allow such a thing to happen?

When I was 5 years old, my best friends were Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen because we lived across the street from each other.

At weekends, I've been going on long but steady-paced four-and-a-half-hour bike rides.

Flowers knew how to preach divinity before men knew how to dissect and botanize them.

There is no prospect that the United States will say to Israel, 'You do such and such and we'll not support you in your security.'

Your habits will determine your quality of life.

In terms of productivity - that is, how much a worker produces in an hour - there's little difference between the U.S., France, and Germany. But since more people work in America, and since they work so many more hours, Americans create more wealth.

Surviving is the only glory in war.

You can't jump to vegan if you're not. Some people are absolute. Some people are able to be gradual.

Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

Never limit your view of life by any past experience.

Wherever you go, man-made things are man-made, but you've got to get out and see God's beauty of the world.

Though the people support the government, the government should not support the people.

The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father, where John was born and where I spent my earliest years.

There's a certain type of character that you can't help but come in contact with growing up and living in Brooklyn and Long Island. A certain mixture of moxie, heart, and a wise guy sense of humor.

If I do a certain number of ads, I have to do a personal project in between, just for my own sanity. I still consider myself a punk-rock kid.

I get really angry when I get hungry. If you don't feed me, I won't talk to you. That's when my anger issues come out.

I turned 40 on the set of the reunion show for 'Sheer Genius,' so it wasn't a hideous birthday because I had everyone on the cast and crew sing 'Happy Birthday' to me, and I won $10,000 for being the fan favorite. It was really liberating to turn 40 and realize that I felt very comfortable with myself and knew who I was.

Styrofoam and plastic milk jugs are biodegradable! Do you know what isn't biodegradable? Paper!

I was born to a Likud which had light; there were no shadows.

I never had the influence of any other singer in my music, so I sounded like myself all the time.

Trusting your intuition means tuning in as deeply as you can to the energy you feel, following that energy moment to moment, trusting that it will lead you where you want to go and bring you everything you desire.

It is very clear that the people in Afghanistan do not want the Taliban back.