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.

Italian-Americans are not the Mafia.

My mom was Sicilian, my dad was Sicilian. Mom was a great cook, but all the women were.

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

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

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.