Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first – you want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times. A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is – can you win or lose like a man?
I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
Freedom, baby, is never having to say you’re sorry.
The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things. Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.