Chazz Palminteri

I'm very proud of being Italian-American, but people don't realize that the mafia is just this aberration. The real community is built…

— Chazz Palminteri

The saddest thing in life is wasted talent, and the choices you make will shape your life forever.

— Chazz Palminteri

I've always been successful. Now I'm famous and successful.

— Chazz Palminteri

I came here knowing nobody. I worked clubs as a singer and even the doors a few times before I landed some…

— Chazz Palminteri

I never worried about becoming typecast. People have said that to me, but I never worried about it. As long as the…

— Chazz Palminteri

My mom was Sicilian, my dad was Sicilian. Mom was a great cook, but all the women were.

— Chazz Palminteri

Doing voiceover, they bring you in, you're wearing jeans, you haven't shaved, you're wearing a baseball cap, and you go in, do…

— Chazz Palminteri

Italian-Americans are not the Mafia.

— Chazz Palminteri

My mother and father told me I was god. I was a good Italian boy who hung out with the same four…

— Chazz Palminteri

I had a 90-minute one-man show. I performed it and my life just exploded. Everything - my life just changed. Every writer,…

— Chazz Palminteri

I love people who just started making movies - first-timers, second-timers. They take chances.

— Chazz Palminteri

I always knew I was going to make it, without doubt.

— Chazz Palminteri

Oh, great reviews are the worst. They mislead you more than the bad ones, because they only fuel your ego. Then you…

— Chazz Palminteri

I get the beginning. I get the end. Then I write the middle. That's how I do it.

— Chazz Palminteri

When you feel good about the work you're doing, that's what's important, not the budget or anything like that. If you're happy…

— Chazz Palminteri

Please, if you're making a movie, start out with a good script, at least! Please!

— Chazz Palminteri

My father always said, 'The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.'

— Chazz Palminteri

I like playing roulette, I like dice. I grew up with gamblers.

— Chazz Palminteri

The key is you have to keep doing the right thing. Do the right thing and stay around long enough, and you'll…

— Chazz Palminteri

The way I pick movies is, first, if the script is any good. Then, if the script is good, who else is…

— Chazz Palminteri

Mental violence is as bad as physical violence. You don't see that very often in movies, so it was a good subject…

— Chazz Palminteri

Yeah, I like to gamble.

— Chazz Palminteri

I thought that if no one was going to give me a great part - and it was very difficult to break…

— Chazz Palminteri