My father was adopted. He grew up in the Italian household.

When I'm offered a role, I look at what I think I can do with it. I look to see if I can project myself into it.

My father's best friend, Georgie Terra, was an Italian guy. The children and the cousins and nieces and nephews were children of the Mafia. Those were the children he grew up with. If you want to go to a safe neighborhood, go to where the Mafia is.

We need to do whatever it takes to get our children together and pay attention to them, because that's our future. What's in the hearts and minds of our children is what's in our future.

The worst resentment that anybody can have is one you feel justified to keep.

I can do more than anyone suspects. I pride myself on my versatility. It took 32 years of difficult parts, second leads, villains and juveniles. The Oscar changed the quality of the roles I was being offered.

My father was adopted. He grew up in the Italian household.