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I took acting and elocution lessons, to get rid of my Sicilian accent.

The thing about being an actor is that you're in the business of not growing up.

I've played some gangster roles, but that's obviously not me. When you're an Italian-American New York actor, it's just an easy way to get cast.

I guess there are very few actors that I've worked with that I would like to work with again. You never think you'll have that chance and, if we didn't do Italian Job together, there wouldn't be another one that could be right.

My mom was Sicilian, my dad was Sicilian. Mom was a great cook, but all the women were.

There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don't need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor.

And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn't just be an actor, I should know about the whole process.

I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.

Becoming an actor is like becoming a father. It's not hard to become one. Making a life of it is the challenge.

That's the great thing about being an actor, you know, you can just jump to different jobs.