I played guitar in a band from when I was about 20 for three years. Then I sang a little. Then I started getting really busy as an actor and forgot about it.

Stop and appreciate what you have today. Look at what you have with wider eyes, maybe with more compassion and more gratitude for the things that you do have and not the things you don’t have.

My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what's important to me.

In Britain you're more used to challenging drama. In America, TV is just boring, and numbing, and bloody terrible.

I've played some gangster roles, but that's obviously not me. When you're an Italian-American New York actor, it's just an easy way to get cast.

Not to toot our own horn, but when 'The Sopranos' was on, it was as good as any movie that was coming out in the theater. I think that goes for a lot of shows today.

To be at acting school, it was kind of the first time you felt the freedom to be as much of yourself as you wanted. People weren't going to judge you.

John Ventimiglia, who was on 'The Sopranos,' was in my first acting class and we have been friends since that time. Alec Baldwin was in my class back then, Sean Young and Andrew McCarthy.

Where you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own-- stamps who you are, whatever the pundits of globalisation have to say.

Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, Offer no angles to the wind.They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholesLess than themselves.

Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.

Michele Bachmann... I'm not going to say it. I'm not going to say it.... Tutti-frutti. I know I'm going to get in trouble!

You are more than human. You are a child of God.

You can have a kid and just be off at work all the time, and it's all mom. But, I spent a lot of time with him, so now, every time I see him, he's like, "Dada!"

I would recommend that skeptics devote even more effort than they do now to understanding the reasons why so many people want or need to believe.

In the beginning, when I was trying to write, I couldnt turn off the outside world to the extent that I can now.

I just love playing guitar, so that's what I'm going to do.

Each one [movie] is very important to us and from a fiscal responsibility, filmmakers understand that it's highly personal for us and they've been great about it.