Quotes from Chazz Palminteri

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 on the working man, the guy who's the cop, the fireman, the truck driver, the bus driver.

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

Yeah, I like to gamble.

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

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

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

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 about the actors you're working with, that's what's important.

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

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

Italian-Americans are not the Mafia.