I want to play my best, day in and day out. It's a pride thing for me. I'm going to go out there and dominate the guy I'm playing against every time.
People always ask me, how do you do everything you do?
I love spaghetti and meatballs. . . I eat a lot.
It took awhile for me to get used to speaking candidly about my own life. I got into it, and it turned out to be a wonderful experience.
I somehow instinctively knew it would be much better to win.
I want you to know how I feel about my Italian heritage, so I'd like to say a few words in Italian: Verdi, Pavarotti, DiMaggio, Valentino, De Niro, Giuliani. . .
My grandsons really love my apple cake, which is from my grandmother's recipe.
With all the movies I've made about history, it's not really fun because you're trying to get it right. You've got history telling how it was, and then my imagination is telling me how I wish it had been, but I can't go there, so I have to censor myself. I'm very good about stopping myself from creating history that never occurred, but it's frustrating.
One factor that has remained constant through all the twists and turns of the history of physical science is the decisive importance of the mathematical imagination.
. . . what's in a person's heart and soul will not likely be changed by the ability to command a helicopter to land on the South Lawn.
I value this delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow.