Actors will say, ‘My character wouldn’t say that.’ Who said it was your character?
I’ve been very lucky, considering what I look like and what I do.
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.
Those who want respect, give respect.
I don’t think I will do a Mafia character again. I want to get away from the violence a little bit, because it is starting to bother me personally.
I find I have to be the sad clown: laughing on the outside, crying on the inside.
Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make.
I find it hard to relax. I live in New York.
I have nothing but respect for HBO.
I like idiotic comedies.
I love doing theaters, cracking people up, hearing them physically roll in the aisles. But we need to get serious. These are serious times. No joke. No joke.
For once I’m not the guy losing my temper all the time.
What they say about TV shows is true. You’re really a family. You laugh, you fight, you get close, you know? Movies are shorter. They’re over quicker. You don’t form the same bonds.
I want nothing to do with privilege.
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.
I’ve never worked with an actor that I did not like.
Putting somebody else’s pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying.
All writers are vampires.
You know, all writers are vampires and they’ll look around and they watch you when you’re not even thinking they’re watching you and they’ll slip stuff in.
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.