I just never really thought there could be something worse than death.
Where the material is, that's where you go. I'm a workman: I go to work. I've done movies for nothing, literally nothing; I did 'Last I Heard' for next to nothing.
I'm a warrior if you try to hurt my family. And anybody I see getting it in the neck out there, I'm right there to protect them. I'm a big, strong guy who knows what he's doing. I've stopped a lot of things in the street, stopped a lot of people from getting hurt.
There are many people who think I'm actually a gangster or a mafioso, largely because of 'Goodfella'.
When I was 25, I was in a show called 'Bajour,' and I was going to leave the show because I couldn't breathe. I couldn't sing, and I couldn't do the basic dance steps I had to do. Fortunately, two actors in the production - who were also yoga instructors - taught me some breathing exercises, and my asthma was cured that day.
Technically, I'm a knight. My family goes back a thousand years in the Naples area. We're a titled, noble people.
People see me in powerful roles. That's what people want to see. That's what I want to do.
There were a lot of races I was going to win at Milwaukee, but I had mechanical problems or something would happen,. . . In the early years, it just took a long time for me to win a race. I got in somebody's oil one time and got in the wall, had a clutch go out once. . . so when I finally won one, it was a long time coming.
Did everyone make the most ghastly blunders at regularly intervals through their life and live to regret them ever afterward? Was everyone's life filled with confusing and contradictory mix of guilt and innocence, hatred and love, concern and unconcern, and any number of other pairings of polar opposites? Or were most people one thing or the other - good or bad, cheerful or crotchety, generous or miserly, and so on.
Visiting Saturn sounds like a lot of fun but you will die!
But the people I admire have always been people like Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson and Jack Lemmon.