In America they like my spicy TV alter ego, probably because there were a lot of Italians and Hispanics in the country, but the real L.A. life is a hard-working one.

I'm a sucker for turquoise sea, white beaches and palm trees. I've been to the tropics every year since I could afford it. It's the perfect place to unwind. I can chill out, read, do a bit of yoga.

When people feel threatened by you, they find something that is belittling.

My parents wanted me to work in a bank or as an accountant.

When people speak their own language you get a much better sense of who they are.

When it came to the stylish and graceful art of ballroom dancing, my dad was a king of the clubs, a prowling tiger and a wonderfully natural mover.

I started dancing before I could talk. Other babies learn to stand and then walk - I just danced.

I'm not romantic at all. I'm a moaner. I should be on Grumpy Old Men. I'm terrible.

It's horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you're not famous or rich, you're not acceptable.

I think a lot of people have a vision of L.A. in which TV executives and movie directors plan their latest productions by the swimming pool.

I like to read about subjects unrelated to my work, especially history.

We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.― Marilyn Monroe

It's not getting any easier.Life will keep on challenging you as long as you are the strong rival.Once you give up, life will lose interest in you and leave you in peace/ease.

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes but is a reward in itself.

I have nothing in my life besides my work. I am obsessed with it. I leave my house only when I'm forced to.

You have to take the horror seriously but there's gags aplenty. Most people, when they do horror it's just grim.

There are no perfect parents, and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way.

Competition was as much as respecting your opponent's work as introspecting on your own.

The truth can be made up if you know how.

It is the duty of a non-co-operator to preach disaffection towards the existing order of things. Non-co-operators are but giving disciplined expression to a nation's outraged feelings.

Terrorism can go anywhere where there is not strong government, or government that cannot control its hinterlands.