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

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.

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.

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.

It would be a word of empowerment, imagine every word coming from your mouth with a true desire to offer help to people knowing they are themselves powerful but need upliftment sometimes.

Sometimes it's hard for us to believe, really believe, that God cares and wants good things for us and doesn't just want us to go off and give everything up and become missionaries in Burundi.

Success is never getting to the bottom of your to-do list.

Get very clear about the kind of world we would like and then start living that way.

I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.

A battle that you win cancels any other bad action of yours. In the same way, by losing one, all the good things worked by you before become vain.

I shall live this day as if it is my last. And if it is not, I shall fall to my knees and give thanks.

This personal freedom to think and feel and speak authentically and to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.

Often your face is your autobiography

The "trickle-down" theory: the principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals.