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.
Those who want respect, give respect.
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.
People don't know and they shouldn't know that you work incredibly hard as an actor.
You know my feelings: every day is a gift. It's just, does it have to be socks?
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.
Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.
I love hearing people laugh.
I find I have to be the sad clown: laughing on the outside, crying on the inside.
I've been very lucky, considering what I look like and what I do.
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 want nothing to do with privilege.
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.
Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying.
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.
For once I'm not the guy losing my temper all the time.
Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people.
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?
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 twenty-five 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.
This is gonna sound stupid, but I saw at one point that our mothers are ... bus drivers. No, they are the bus. See, they're the vehicle that gets us here. They drop us off and go on their way. They continue on their journey. And the problem is that we keep tryin' to get back on the bus, instead of just lettin' it go.
I just think its the changes that age brings. You slow down a little bit ... the writers are smart enough to write all those changes that life gives you.
I'd love to live in New Orleans. I love the freedom of it - for good and for bad.
I like idiotic comedies.
