The Sopranos all came down to the writing. I wouldn't have been on for as long as I was if the writing weren't so good.

I find I have to be the sad clown: laughing on the outside, crying on the inside.

I'm an actor... I do a job and I go home. Why are you interested in me? You don't ask a truck driver about his job.

People don't know and they shouldn't know that you work incredibly hard as an actor.

I love hearing people laugh.

You know my feelings: every day is a gift. It's just, does it have to be socks?

I like idiotic comedies.

Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living.

Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.

I don't think I will do a Mafia character again. I want to get away from the violence a little bit, because it is starting to bother me personally.

For once I'm not the guy losing my temper all the time.

I cannot stress how important and effective it is to leverage the principles of S.T.A.R.T. - Serve. Thank. Ask. Receive. Trust.

Don't be vain. What you look like doesn't matter. It's the deed that matters.

They are not my stories...they are merely mine to tell

The directing process is often a continuation of the writing. This is just a different skill-set.

Two things are universal: Hydrogen and stupidity

To lose something in the will of God is to find something better.

A lot of people say, 'Well, I like a challenge. 'I don't like challenges. Life is tough enough without any challenges.

A splendour of miscellaneous spirits.

Middle class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones.

I've definitely been typecast, but I have time to do other things and I was glad to have the chances I did.