Actor Quotes

I started out with comedy in college, but had my major in Recreation Administration - which meant I wasn't going to get a real job - so I started doing a little standup.

I started doing stand-up in college.

For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.

This art of acting is a process I love very much. It's an unbelievably fulfilling experience for me and I look forward to building upon my art in the years to come.

I think if you want to become a great football player, professional, you must give all the time one hundred percent, you must work hard - to be lucky is a good thing - but if you work hard and you give everything you will have great success.

I am very proud to be a part of the Livestrong Foundation. I am maybe only a member but I give everything I can to be sure that people understand that cancer is a disease for everybody - not only in France, in Europe, in Asia, it is all over the world. We must fight together, we must make something

I am just like 99% of my friends in France, who say on their resume they can speak fluent English. In reality, they can't even count up to three.

But my biggest passion is football.

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

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

I was just so blatantly shy throughout my life.

I was 40 when I did my first movie.

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

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

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

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.