I was 40 when I did my first movie.

An album is such a personal thing. It's something I always wanted to do. It's me doing me, singing as me.

At some point in my life, before I was gone, I wanted to make an album, even if it was for no reason other than posterity.

Death can't be so bad if mom went through it. It makes it easier for the child to follow.

I don't know anyone who curses the way they do on the Sopranos. Not in an Italian household. I never said the word hell in front of my mother.

I fell in love with the most beautiful girl in the Bronx.

I have sons, and they have never said the word hell in front of me or my wife. That's the truth.

I need distractions. Good distractions, not bad ones. A good distraction for me is a great play.

I used to make up stories about my father. I would go to the movies and look for a character who looked like my father.

I was just so blatantly shy throughout my life.

I'm a traditionalist. I have certain values I live by.

If I didn't start singing in the cabarets and on my albums, I could have never even tried something like 'Capone.'

If I stunk for some reason, you can always blame it on the character.

My father never saw me play ball, and I was an outstanding ballplayer. I missed all that adoration.

My father was a good man, but he was a con man. He was a wanderer, nomadic.

My mother was the total influence. My father was what we call a nomadic person; he was a wanderer.

People call me an instinctive actor. I used to consider that an insult early on, only because I had never studied. Now... I love it.

The choreographer for the Milton Berle show wanted me to audition. I walked away from that.

You don't have to be worried about labeling me.

Look, people have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world, I don't care where it is, when they look at me it's not about my intelligence. It's who can I beat up.