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What has impressed me the most about the Italians whose tables we've sat at is that they are traditional cooks but also outrageously innovative. These people are wild improvisers.

Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera.

Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare.

I also really like getting to know our crew members better.

When I am walking in Central Park, I recognize the Italians. Because an Italian, even when he jogs, he's dressed perfect.

In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.

You find with the really great actors, the ones you really admire and look up to, very often they're very giving, generous, warm people.

Was the crew well? Was I not? I had profited in many ways by the voyage. I had even gained flesh, and actually weighed a pound more than when I sailed from Boston.

The Italians have their priorities right: They're driven, they do their work, but they really enjoy the day-to-day and they don't put off the enjoyment of the everyday for some future goal.

I had a very exciting life in Italy, and I was doing lots of variety shows.