I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type.

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.

To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq, you're going to get a sense of what the hell's going on there. Boy, you'll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.

It turned out that time doesn't heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly

There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.

We live in a world where the more you're working, the more things you do. It's a workaday world.

My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.