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

That's the way to live - around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.

It used to worry me what people said about me. I'm learning not to worry as much. Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don 't take objection to it, because that's the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.

We were doing Scarface many years ago...and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean. I thought, what's going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director, Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.

I come from the South Bronx - a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.

Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.

I'm naturally shy but I've done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.