They would wake me up when I was sleeping, and say sing a song for our friends. I had a sweet voice, I had a nice little tenor voice. God knows what I sang, but my whole family would admire me.

When I started really singing I was 17, 18 years old. I used to go around trying to be a singer in the Bronx. My knees would shake but I learned by doing.

For TV I don't think I could have gotten a better part than Uncle Junior because of the intimacy of the character based on David Chase's brilliant writing.

I don't like the way Uncle Junior dresses. He loves it.

I went to Brooklyn College and met this beautiful Jewish girl named Merle, with dark hair, exotic looking and brilliant. So we got married and had three children.

Uncle Junior is a criminal, which makes him a villain, so it makes people want to watch him. My whole life as an actor has been preparing for something like this.

My father was an American who could cuss in Italian and make an aria out of it. It was wonderful to watch. But then again, he was a Gemini. I believe in that stuff.

The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language.

I had to audition for the part of Jnior, and I wanted the role terribly because I knew it was a great character. This guy is a wonderful, funny, mean old guy.

I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them.

I had no idea what they were saying in Italian as a child, they spoke too quickly on the radio. But I realized that language was very funny.

When every heart is filled with peace and every mind is searching for peace, how can there be war?

The crux of our conflict lay in the fact that we each couldn't be who we wanted the other to be.

Oh if everyone knew how beautiful Jesus is how amiable He is! Fhey would all die from love.

The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.

No matter how bad the individual, everybody has reasons for why they do what they do.

I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership.

All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.

People have just assumed that... if we call our Facebook acquaintances our friends, we must be influenced by them, too. But we're not.

Writers often write their best when they are feeling their worst

When we do fantasy, we must not lose sight of reality.