The saddest thing in life is wasted talent, and the choices you make will shape your life forever.

The way I pick movies is, first, if the script is any good. Then, if the script is good, who else is in it, the director, the producer, all that. If you have all that, there's a chance the movie will be great. If the script isn't right, or the director or cast isn't right, you've got no shot in hell.

Italian-Americans are not the Mafia.

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

Please, if you're making a movie, start out with a good script, at least! Please!

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.