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

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.

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.

Oh, great reviews are the worst. They mislead you more than the bad ones, because they only fuel your ego. Then you only want another one, like potato chips or something, and the best thing you get is fat and bloated. I'd rather just refuse, thanks.

I had a 90-minute one-man show. I performed it and my life just exploded. Everything - my life just changed. Every writer, director, producer, studio head, movie star - they all wanted it. It was the hottest property since 'Rocky.'

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