I came here knowing nobody. I worked clubs as a singer and even the doors a few times before I landed some TV roles.

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.'

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'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.

Facing the difficulties, I can choose either to be a poor victim or a great adventurer.

Life is defined by time. Time defined moments. Time is priceless gift.

Bipolar is an illness not a hopeless destination it can be maintained with proper medication

I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.

Jesus was the First American.

The artist's work constitutes the only satisfactory relationship he can have with his fellow men since he seeks his real friends among the dead and the unborn.

You are greater than you know.

My grandparents on my mom's side played in a mandolin orchestra. So when I hear mandolins, I automatically think of them.

Gardens always mean something else, man absolutely uses one thing to say another.

It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles.