There are many people who think I'm actually a gangster or a mafioso, largely because of 'Goodfella.'

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.

People see me in powerful roles. That’s what people want to see. That’s what I want to do.

Technically, I’m a knight. My family goes back a thousand years in the Naples area. We’re a titled, noble people.

Ultimately, love conquers all, and gay or straight, don’t we all want to believe that? I would that if this was to happen to me, and one of my kids had come and told me he or she was gay, I would say: If that’s the only way you can live, then I love you.

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.

If there's a phone call to be made, I make it,

It's a lot of time and effort - what can I tell you?

Whatever we know about him is probably true. Whatever we hear about him is probably true. That he is one of the great lovers of the 20th century or a tryster is certainly a fact. And that's obvious. I don't think he would hide that. ... But that gives me no problem with the guy. Hey, we're men.

People see me in powerful roles. That's what people want to see. That's what I want to do.