"My all time favorite actor is Marlon Brando. I admired how effortless and how real he was in his performance in "On the Waterfront." To me, he wasn't acting. He was living the role. And that's what I admire about good acting. It's real." "Leading men crash and burn. Character actors are around forever." " never thought about pursuing acting as a career. Back then we were mainly performing at block parties. It was a labor of love and it was a lot of fun. The best I thought I could do was maybe make a few extra bucks on the side. All I really wanted was to earn enough to buy myself a used car so I could drive out to Orchard Beach at the weekend. This whole thing is a complete fluke." "I've become, like, this farmer. I live on the top of a mountain and I look out at the birds fighting over the bird table instead of guys fighting over a parking space. It's about as far from my old neighborhood as you can get. But you know what they say: you can take the kid out of the Lower East Side but you can't take the Lower East Side out of the kid."