I was an actor in college and it was much easier than being a waiter. I thought it was fun to get paid. People were not exactly surprised to see me going in the field.

You ever get sick and one of your friends gives you medical advice? And they tell you that they're not a doctor - like you didn't know it?

My whole family, all they talk about is food and disease. And they're competitive with illness: I have a cold. I wish I had a cold! I don't even have sinuses anymore.

My cousin Louie, we walk into a bar, and he says, Dom, I think that waitress knows me. What do you think she knows, Louie? The fact that your belly came in four steps ahead of you?

I think boxing is an incredible sport and I would like to see it really become regulated because I think it could bring back a lot of the past.

Life is too short when you think of the length of death

Character is what the world needs - character that will empower the mind with such an unimaginable strength that one would meet death face to face and say “some other time, pal!

Whistler, ' Manet called. 'How's your mother?

In every age of transition men are never so firmly bound to one way of life as when they are about to abandon it.

We can always lace a sense of humor around anything.

I hate it when, by page 30, I know what the lead's going to do and then what the bad guy's gonna do. Mostly it's just scripts by the numbers where nothing's surprising, nothing's interesting.

We should often blush at our noblest deeds if the world were to see all their underlying motives.

You may suppress natural propensities by force, but they will be certain to re-appear.

I love you Denver Beck," she whispered. "I have for a long time." Then she stepped back. "Now it's your turn to decide if you love me.

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way