I have such an image of a mafioso.

Ultimately, love conquers all, and gay or straight, don't we all want to believe that? I would that if this was to happen to me, and one of my kids had come and told me he or she was gay, I would say: If that's the only way you can live, then I love you.

I don't know what would have been worse: If Mira had come home one day to say she was gay or an actress.

I have such an image of a mafioso.

I prepare for every role. I come into class with my homework under my arm.

I'm a warrior if you try to hurt my family. And anybody I see getting it in the neck out there, I'm right there to protect them. I'm a big, strong guy who knows what he's doing. I've stopped a lot of things in the street, stopped a lot of people from getting hurt.

People see me in powerful roles. That's what people want to see. That's what I want to do.

Technically, I'm a knight. My family goes back a thousand years in the Naples area. We're a titled, noble people.

There are many people who think I'm actually a gangster or a mafioso, largely because of 'Goodfella.'

When I was 25, I was in a show called 'Bajour,' and I was going to leave the show because I couldn't breathe. I couldn't sing, and I couldn't do the basic dance steps I had to do. Fortunately, two actors in the production - who were also yoga instructors - taught me some breathing exercises, and my asthma was cured that day.

Where the material is, that's where you go. I'm a workman: I go to work. I've done movies for nothing, literally nothing; I did 'Last I Heard' for next to nothing.

The wind always seems to blow against catchers when they are running.

I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.

Eating a high-nutrient diet actually makes you more satisfied with less food, and actually gives the ability to enjoy food more without overeating.

For the first forty days a child is given dreams of previous lives. Journeys, winding paths, a hundred small lessons and then the past is erased.

There is something attractive about taking risks.

Sometimes you win by losing.

We have multiple businesses, and obviously we want every one to stand on its own, and what you don't want to do is manage one business from the profit of the other one.

As a director, you should choose a project that will educate you and enrich your life, because you're going to be doing it for two years.

Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.

I can't really write anything without knowing the ending. I don't know how people do that. Even with my superhero stuff, I have to know at least where I want to take the characters and what the ending of my story with them will be. I just can't structure stories or character arcs and stuff without knowing the endpoint.

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

There are still great artists in the country format.

It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ.

Writing is a calling, not a choice.

No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Currently the green crab is viewed only as a pest species. The crab tends to eat what we eat. Its incredibly tough. And generally speaking its presence in the water means fewer clams and lobsters. So wed like to turn around these negatives and make them into a positive.

The understatement is the English contribution to comedy.

A lifeguard is like a lighthouse, guiding ships to safety.

In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.

I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it.

If you're sitting across the table from someone, the geometry of the situation says 'confrontation.' If you're walking with somebody, you're heading in the same direction, and the spatial dance you're doing is a little more cooperative.