The eye condition that I have is Marfan's Syndrome.

You grow up in a Sicilian household, becoming an actor is not a big leap.

My grandfather was a chef for a Baron in Sicily before he came to America. I grew up with him. I used to do my homework at one end of the kitchen table while he cooked at the other end.

What makes cookbooks interesting is to find out about the people and the culture that invented the food.

I had a wonderful time playing Dr. Kaufman in Tomorrow Never Dies. It was a real Bond villain, over the top, almost laughable but dangerous.

I directed a piece of theater in Italy. We took nine fables from the town and we created a play.

I get to meet a lot of people, and I really like people.

I shot this wonderful picture called American Saint a couple of years ago, which is still looking for release.

To be a Bond villain, you only get to do that once in your life. You never get to come back.

I met Milos in 1967. I was working on a student film. And there is Milos Forman. So that's how I met Milos.

There is something to be said about the sense of accomplishment the reader feels when finishing a book in one sitting.

I have this ability to find this hidden talent in people that sometimes even they didn't know they had.

I've never trusted toadstools, but I suppose some must have their good points.

Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.

I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.

The truth is, the longer it goes, the harder it gets.

And sometimes the clergy are blindsided by that. Other times they realize that ahead of time and say they're not going to use those terms. So it gets complicated for sure.

There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost.

We learn best in moments of enjoyment

Concession comes with better grace and more salutary effect from superior power.