There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.

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

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.

I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.

"To be or not to be is" [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend. I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it's probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.

I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn't want to do movies that much. I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.