Did You Know I Started Out As

I'm Not A Violent Person, Never Was, But I Have This Temperament That I've Always Displayed. I Guess It Has To Do With My Tradition And Being Italian, We're Very Outgoing With Our Emotions.

Everything Changes With Age. The Parts Change With Age, Your Feelings About Them Change, Roles That I Would've Wanted To Play 10 Years Ago, I Don't Want To Play Now.

A Lot Of Actors Choose Parts By The Scripts, But I Don't Trust Reading The Scripts That Much. I Try To Get Some Friends Together And Read A Script Aloud. Sometimes I Read Scripts And Record Them And Play Them Back To See If There's A Movie. It's Very Evocative; It's Like A First Cut Because You Hear 'she Walked To The Door,' And You Visualize All These Things. 'she Opens The Door' . . . Because You Read The Stage Directions, Too.

Larry Grobel Has The Illness Of All Writers, He Can't Help Himself. You're Talking To Him And All Of A Sudden, You Say, "he's Puttin' That In His Cash Register!"

If I Find Something And Feel As Though I Can Contribute To [it] In A Way And Feel I'm In It, Whatever That Means, I'm Expressing Something That I Feel Is A Way To Exercise My Talent And Help Communicate A Role As A Human Being In A Movie, I Will Do That.