Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Paul Sorvino

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor Paul Sorvino.
Last updated on November 9, 2024.
Paul Sorvino

Paul Anthony Sorvino is an American actor, opera singer, businessman, writer, and sculptor. He often portrays authority figures on both sides of the law and is known for his roles as Paulie Cicero in the 1990 gangster film Goodfellas, and NYPD Sergeant Phil Cerreta on the TV series Law & Order. He held supporting roles in A Touch of Class, Reds, The Rocketeer, Nixon, and Romeo + Juliet. He is the father of actors Mira Sorvino and Michael Sorvino.

I have such an image of a mafioso.
I prepare for every role. I come into class with my homework under my arm.
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
I don't know what would have been worse: If Mira had come home one day to say she was gay or an actress.
People see me in powerful roles. That's what people want to see. That's what I want to do.
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.
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.
Technically, I'm a knight. My family goes back a thousand years in the Naples area. We're a titled, noble people.
There are many people who think I'm actually a gangster or a mafioso, largely because of 'Goodfella.'
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.
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.
There are many people who think I'm actually a gangster or a mafioso, largely because of 'Goodfella'.
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