Paul Sorvino Quotes

I have such an image of a mafioso.

Paul Sorvino

• Image
• Mafia

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

Paul Sorvino

• Years
• Knight
• Naples

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

Paul Sorvino

• People
• Think
• Gangster

When I was 25, I was in a show called 'Bajour,' and I was going to leave the show because I couldn't breathe. I couldn't sing, and I couldn't do the basic dance steps I had to do. Fortunately, two actors in the production - who were also yoga instructors - taught me some breathing exercises, and my asthma was cured that day.

Paul Sorvino

• Show
• Breathing
• Asthma

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.

Paul Sorvino

• Family
• Protect
• Warrior

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

Paul Sorvino

• People
• Want
• Powerful

I prepare for every role. I come into class with my homework under my arm.

Paul Sorvino

• Role
• Prepare
• Homework

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.

Paul Sorvino

• Work
• Movies
• Material

I don't know what would have been worse: If Mira had come home one day to say she was gay or an actress.

Paul Sorvino

• Gay
• Actress
• Worse