Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.
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Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living.
It is a dark, dark world. If you're going to be in a dark world, I can't think of any better one to be in. I still think I'm very lucky to be in it.
I'm an actor... I do a job and I go home. Why are you interested in me? You don't ask a truck driver about his job.
All writers are vampires.
I just don't think I'm that interesting. I don't think what I have to say is that interesting. To hear me go blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I mean, who... cares?
I want nothing to do with privilege.
I like dark places.
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.
I lost 30 pounds to play my character in 'The Mexican', but people don't take to skinny mafia men, and I don't feel right when I'm thin.
I love hearing people laugh.
Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying.
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'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.
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 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 it hard to relax. I live in New York.
I'm an angry guy.
I'm not a big, three-hour-play, Ibsen-revival kind of man.
Actors will say, 'My character wouldn't say that.' Who said it was your character?
I dabbled a little bit in acting in high school, and then I forgot about it completely. And then at about 25 I went to a class. I don't think anybody in my family thought it was an intelligent choice. I don't think anybody thought I'd succeed, which is understandable. I think they were just happy that I was doing something.
I'd love to live in New Orleans. I love the freedom of it - for good and for bad.
Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make.
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