Actor

'The Sopranos' all came down to the writing. I wouldn't have been on for as long as I was if the writing weren't so good.

I'm an angry guy.

I love hearing people laugh.

I love doing theaters, cracking people up, hearing them physically roll in the aisles. But we need to get serious. These are serious times. No joke. No joke.

I've been very lucky, considering what I look like and what I do.

I want nothing to do with privilege.

I like dark places.

I was voted best-looking kid in high school but, as you can see, things changed. I used to say I was a 260 pound Woody Allen. You can make that 295 pound now.

I lost 30 pounds to play my character in 'The Mexican', but people don't take to skinny mafia men, and I don't feel right when I'm thin.

What they say about TV shows is true. You're really a family. You laugh, you fight, you get close, you know? Movies are shorter. They're over quicker. You don't form the same bonds.

I just don't think I'm that interesting. I don't think what I have to say is that interesting. To hear me go blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I mean, who... cares?

Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make.

I'm not a big, three-hour-play, Ibsen-revival kind of man.

I find it hard to relax. I live in New York.

Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.

I've been very lucky, considering what I look like and what I do.

You know, all writers are vampires and they'll look around and they watch you when you're not even thinking they're watching you and they'll slip stuff in.

Actors will say, 'My character wouldn't say that.' Who said it was your character?

All writers are vampires.

I'd love to live in New Orleans. I love the freedom of it - for good and for bad.