I wouldn't be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast. Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.

Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don't sum up a man's life in one moment.

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.

Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.

The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don't have a movie.

I didn't want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally - Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least, I didn't want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it's OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.

They say we die twice - once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.