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"You grow up in a Sicilian household, becoming an actor is not a big leap."
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"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."
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"I don't think I would be an actor if I was that intelligent."
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"I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall."
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"Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly."
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"I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits."
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"I trained as a theater actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by."
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"We have the best driver in the world in drifting and best guy in rally racing and stuff like that. So obviously there's a lot of stuff that I didn't do, but there's a lot of really incredible things that I don't think we've ever seen an actor do."
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"My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance?"
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"An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox."
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"There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson."
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"The eye condition that I have is Marfan's Syndrome."
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"My grandparents told endless stories about the town they were from. It became an almost mythic place."
Grandparents
"I shot this wonderful picture called American Saint a couple of years ago, which is still looking for release."
American
"I get to meet a lot of people, and I really like people."
People
"I directed a piece of theater in Italy. We took nine fables from the town and we created a play."
Italy
"My grandfather was a chef for a Baron in Sicily before he came to America. I grew up with him. I used to do my homework at one end of the kitchen table while he cooked at the other end."
America
"What makes cookbooks interesting is to find out about the people and the culture that invented the food."
Food
"I had a wonderful time playing Dr. Kaufman in Tomorrow Never Dies. It was a real Bond villain, over the top, almost laughable but dangerous."
Time
"I met Milos in 1967. I was working on a student film. And there is Milos Forman. So that's how I met Milos."
Film
"To be a Bond villain, you only get to do that once in your life. You never get to come back."
Life
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