There are many people who think I'm actually a gangster or a mafioso, largely because of 'Goodfella'.

People see me in powerful roles. That's what people want to see. That's what I want to do.

Where the material is, that's where you go. I'm a workman: I go to work. I've done movies for nothing, literally nothing; I did 'Last I Heard' for next to nothing.

Technically, I'm a knight. My family goes back a thousand years in the Naples area. We're a titled, noble people.

Willful blindness sees no end of damage done.

I'm hosting weekend retreats all over America. It is like a 24-hour slumber party for moms. We laugh, eat, play games, get massages, win prizes, talk about parenting and even cry a bit.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

There is a reference in Aristotle to a gnat produced by larvae engendered in the slime of vinegar. This must have been Drosophila.

Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.

I have been able to sniff out a phony.

God is ever present. He's in every breath, in every step. He's here, always, always.

I struggle as a writer, and I'm convinced that if I was at school now, I'd be termed as having ADS. Two minutes and I'm drifting.

Fungi are the interface organisms between life and death.

If you wish, you may call me Rand Sedai.