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.

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

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

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 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.

We cannot know love if we remain unable to surrender our attachment to power, if any feeling of vulnerability strikes terror in our hearts. Lovelessness torments.

He loved her when she was angry. And he was convinced it was because she was her most honest in those moments. ~Ruin

I feel blessed to have an opportunity to try out for a second Olympics team and if it doesn't work out, hey I gave it my all.

What the Lib Dems have failed to do is offer any meaningful agenda for government or for power.

Of course, I didn't tell you about all the times I said I was going to hit one and it didn't happen.

... We probably funded a rate of something like one out of ten solo teams.

You know, the more grown-up you are, the more you like Proust.

I was perfect- not healed, but as if there had never been a wound in the first place

We're going to put Hulu ahead of you, unless you pay up.

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.