I'm Italian. I wouldn't know how to play a Jew.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm Italian, but some people think I'm Jewish because I work the Yiddish. I also work the Italian, by the way.
When I tell people I'm an Italian Jew, they're very amused by it. But obviously by blood I'm Jewish, because my mother is.
I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way.
I am Jewish, Italian, American, Catholic.
I love being Italian.
In New York, a Jew is a Jew, an Italian is an Italian, a Muslim is a Muslim: Nobody's going out of his way to treat you in a special way.
You find Jews, Irish, and Italians in every orchestra.
I mean, people don't know what race I am. They never know if I'm Hawaiian or Italian or Mexican or Spanish or white. I could play Jewish, I could play anything.
I'm Jewish and Italian, and I lucked out and got the nose of both cultures.
I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.