Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make.

The Sopranos all came down to the writing. I wouldn't have been on for as long as I was if the writing weren't so good.

Work-do plays, learn your craft, and go to school. Keep working. Nobody is going to give you jobs for going to parties or any of that nonsense. Go out, look around, do things.

Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.

This is gonna sound stupid, but I saw at one point that our mothers are ... bus drivers. No, they are the bus. See, they're the vehicle that gets us here. They drop us off and go on their way. They continue on their journey. And the problem is that we keep tryin' to get back on the bus, instead of just lettin' it go.

I was voted best-looking kid in high school but, as you can see, things changed. I used to say I was a 260-pound Woody Allen. You can make that 295-pound now.

You know my feelings: every day is a gift. It's just, does it have to be socks?