Stop and appreciate what you have today. Look at what you have with wider eyes, maybe with more compassion and more gratitude for the things that you do have and not the things you don’t have.

I played guitar in a band from when I was about 20 for three years. Then I sang a little. Then I started getting really busy as an actor and forgot about it.

My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what's important to me.

In Britain you're more used to challenging drama. In America, TV is just boring, and numbing, and bloody terrible.

I've played some gangster roles, but that's obviously not me. When you're an Italian-American New York actor, it's just an easy way to get cast.

Not to toot our own horn, but when 'The Sopranos' was on, it was as good as any movie that was coming out in the theater. I think that goes for a lot of shows today.

To be at acting school, it was kind of the first time you felt the freedom to be as much of yourself as you wanted. People weren't going to judge you.

John Ventimiglia, who was on 'The Sopranos,' was in my first acting class and we have been friends since that time. Alec Baldwin was in my class back then, Sean Young and Andrew McCarthy.

So the question becomes, Daughter of the Dragon, what will you sacrifice? What will you let be taken away so that you, too, can have power?

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.

No matter what you do, if your heart is ever true, And his heart was true to Poll.

The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.

The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.

False preachers are worse than deflowerers of virgins.

Few Christians go into media or the arts today, or see it as a primary mission field or battlefield. But it is.

Patti [Smith] was my experiment, to be honest. And the film is what we got out of it. At the end of the day, I learned a lot about how to make a film.

Necessity invented stools, Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs, And luxury the accomplish'd Sofa last.