The key is you have to keep doing the right thing. Do the right thing and stay around long enough, and you'll keep getting parts. And if you don't, you write your own parts, which I'm lucky to do. It's like anything else: you get hot, you get cold, then you get hot again. You just keep working.

I thought that if no one was going to give me a great part - and it was very difficult to break into film, obviously - then I'd write one myself.

I came here knowing nobody. I worked clubs as a singer and even the doors a few times before I landed some TV roles.

When you feel good about the work you're doing, that's what's important, not the budget or anything like that. If you're happy about the actors you're working with, that's what's important.

My father always said, 'The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.'

I love people who just started making movies - first-timers, second-timers. They take chances.

My mother and father told me I was god. I was a good Italian boy who hung out with the same four guys. I was a little god.