“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.”

In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.

If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.

When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.

It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.

You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.

Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.

Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.

The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.

If you get all tangled up, just tango on.

You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.

Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.

You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.

sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know

You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.

That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.

Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.

Actions speak louder than words, so kiss her as you mean it.

These empty halls are crowded, this silence is too loud. Shadows they call out, now i’ve lost what once was found.

I think weakness, in a way, can be also needed because we don’t have to be the loudest, we don’t have to take up the most amount of space, and we don’t have to earn the most money… We need to care about each other more.

If you didn’t want her to scream so loud you shouldn’t have tried to strangle her voice -both love & violence are a choice.

Sometimes NOT doing things – like just sitting down outside the parliament – speaks much louder than doing things. Just like a whisper sometimes is louder than shouting.

The sound of silence has the ability to teach the loudest lessons.

Make your positive voice stronger and louder than your inner critic and anyone else’s.

His revenge wasn’t loud or nasty. His revenge was silent because growth can not be heard.