When you feel good about the work you're doing, that's what's important, not the budget or anything like that. If you're happy about the actors you're working with, that's what's important.

I like playing roulette, I like dice. I grew up with gamblers.

The saddest thing in life is wasted talent, and the choices you make will shape your life forever.

Italian-Americans are not the Mafia.

My mother and father told me I was god. I was a good Italian boy who hung out with the same four guys. I was a little god.

My father always said, 'The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.'

I've always been successful. Now I'm famous and successful.

Mental violence is as bad as physical violence. You don't see that very often in movies, so it was a good subject to tackle.

Yeah, I like to gamble.

I thought that if no one was going to give me a great part - and it was very difficult to break into film, obviously - then I'd write one myself.

Please, if you're making a movie, start out with a good script, at least! Please!

The real success is experiencing the bitters of life rather more than sweets.

All love that has not friendship for its base is like a mansion built upon the sand.

The blues are three L's - living , loving and hopefully, laughing.

Insecurity is just something that's there all the time. I've never been crippled by it.

I'm not homosexual, I'm not hetrosexual, I'm just sexual.

Forgiveness liberates the soul, it removes fear.

I stay fat because it just wouldn't be fair to all the thin people if I were this good-looking, intelligent, funny, and thin. It's a public service really.

I will not descend among professors and capitalists.

Actually, if my business was legitimate, I would deduct a substantial percentage for depreciation of my body.

I work twice as hard as everybody else.