I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.

No matter what the reason, if you start to scream and shout, you look a fool, and you feel a fool, and you earn the disrespect of everyone.

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.

I think I have the secret of a successful L.A. restaurant, especially now that so many Europeans live there. You have to have a place where they can see out the windows, see the world passing by. Europeans fancy that.

I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.

I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.

My father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I grew up on the very best fish that money could buy, 'cause he only stole the good stuff.