Vincent Schiavelli

My grandparents told endless stories about the town they were from. It became an almost mythic place.

I have a second bedroom I don't use. I'm going to start the Second Bedroom Film Festival. You're all invited.

You grow up in a Sicilian household, becoming an actor is not a big leap.

When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.'

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.