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.Collection: Intelligence
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.Collection: Intelligence
My entire family were Democrats all our lives. But because how furious I was about the previous administration, I turned in my card to become a Republican. I did not want to be known as a Democrat under that person's regime.
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.
An album is such a personal thing. It's something I always wanted to do. It's me doing me, singing as me.
There was certainly less profanity in the Godfather than in the Sopranos. There was a kind of respect. It's not that I totally agreed with it, but it was a great piece of art.
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.
We talk about Hollywood being pro-labor, yet about 70% of our industry has been farmed out to Canada, meaning we are losing jobs like crazy. Where's organized labor asking how we can allow such a thing to happen?
If I didn't start singing in the cabarets and on my albums, I could have never even tried something like 'Capone.'
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.
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.
My father was never around. It was almost as if he didn't exist. I would tell my friends he was in Cleveland, on business. Sometimes, every six months or so, he would come by for dinner.