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

I'm very proud of being Italian-American, but people don't realize that the mafia is just this aberration. The real community is built on the working man, the guy who's the cop, the fireman, the truck driver, the bus driver.

I like playing roulette, I like dice. I grew up with gamblers.

I've always been successful. Now I'm famous and successful.

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.

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.'

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