"It makes some great movies. I mean, some of my favorite films growing up, have been, forgive me, gangster films. I learned how to walk and talk watching Jimmy Cagney. It`s that, it`s the power, it`s the glamour. The mob just has all that mysticism around it that`s magical."

"I`ve done like 45 movies, played 40 gangsters and five crooked cops"

"When I first read David Chase`s script, I knew this was special. This is what I`d been looking for all my life . . . When I heard James Gandolfini, Edie Falco, Michael Imperioli and Nancy Marchand were in it, I knew it was going to be a total class act. I knew right away this was a role to kill for."