There are a lot of people who will come to me for advice or whatever.

But we`re still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways.

I mean, I don`t work with a system as an actor in the sense of method as much as it`s a compilation of everything I`ve done and learned all my life.

You know the way I play golf, it`s a good I do these things for charities.

You learn that not all things fall into a certain kind of pattern that can be predictable and that can be understandable and that`s going to be easy, you know.

I reached that day that I always thought might happen, where I say to myself I don`t want to do this anymore. I`m looking for some stability. I want to stay home.

I`ve loved it, but I have a wife and two children.

When I played Dean Martin, he was dead when we made the movie but there would have been nothing better than to spend a week with Dean Martin if I could have.

I`m in the wrong racket if I didn`t want a public life.

That`s why I like the scenes where we`re just in the kitchen having breakfast, because it`s the interaction between people. The chaos.

I was fascinated by the Supreme Court.

I mean, believe me, I`m not for censorship.

For the last thirty years in my career I never know what I`m doing next.

[referring to his voice role as mob boss Fat Tony] Nothing interferes with my doing "The Simpsons" (1989)!

I did plays and movies and whatever all over the place.

Dean Martin is one of my heroes.

I`ve spent the better part of the last twenty-five years doing a lot of traveling.

My father died just as I became an adult. It`s a tough thing because you`ve kind of known this guy as a child and then, just at the point where you start to understand where he`s coming from, he`s gone. So now you look back and he almost becomes a mythical person to you.

When they were small and my wife really had no other responsibilities, except taking care of the family and all of us, it wasn`t that big a deal. It was fun. Hey, we`re going to Moscow. We`re going to Italy. We`re going to Toronto. We`re going to New York.

But what I will do is I`ll acknowledge it and if it can be of any help the fact that I do acknowledge it then maybe other people will benefit from it because I do have somewhat of a public forum being in the line of work I am.

If at the end of the day, people look at it and say, oh, yeah, I liked his stuff, or for the most part I liked his stuff, or I`ve enjoyed watching some of the things he`s done, that`s all I can hope for.

I`m a character actor so I`ve jumped around to all kinds of things.

I wouldn`t be surprised if some day, they put the Simpsons in the Smithsonian. It`s become part of our culture, those characters.

Whenever you`re going to play a real person, you run the risk of well, everybody in the world kind of has an image of what that person is and who he should be and so you really have to do your homework.

For every Mother Teresa, there`s a Jeffrey Dahmer.

You know, you want to research it as close to the resource material as you can, you know, where you`re going to be drawing it from.

That`s why I really don`t play cards or gamble. Because I`d crack.

There`s now a Fat Tony doll, which cracks me up. But you feel honored that they asked you to do a voice.

You talk to the real cops and they say ninety percent of it is paperwork.

If you`re going to believe in a God, then you also have to equally believe that there`s a flip side to this.

They put me in the drama class, and that`s the path I`ve taken.

I mean, it`s the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can.

There`s good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers.