I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.

In America most everybody who's Italian is half Italian. Except me. I'm all Italian. I'm mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.

I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping. It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.

Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.

Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.

I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it, I destroy it because it's no longer coming from my unconscious.

I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.