I don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx.

I'm much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I've always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me. I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.

The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.

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

I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.

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.

It wasn't until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.