I'm sure there are a lot of Italians who refer to themselves as goombahs and greaseballs and whatever. That's what people do. It gives them a sort of familiarity that other people don't have.

I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.

I don't get the great story line, action, mystery scripts; I get comedies. And relationship comedies are what I do. It's what attracted me to American Pie.

I've never considered myself a comedian. I'm a comedic actor.

I’ve consequently played a lot of different cops from a lot of different kind of law enforcement agencies.

When people want me to sign an autograph in a restaurant, and I'm eating. I don't even have to say no, I just kind of stop and look at them ... "Oh, okay. I'll ... I'll come back."

Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.