Armand Anthony Assante, Jr. (born October 4, 1949) is an American actor. Read full biography of Armand Assante →
The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western.
Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity.
Acting is a total physical, emotional sensation.
I go out there and make a fool of myself. It's inevitable.
I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with.
I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was never in a film big enough to do that.
I've got the best deal on Earth. Where else can I sin and know that I'm forgiven for it?
You love what you do, you are cursed with it, and then you get known for being cursed with it.
I've brought my daughters all over the world-they travel with me. I drag them out of school just to keep the relationship. When I'm home... →
I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them.
I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker.
I never pursued a career relentlessly.
I stopped courting Hollywood a long time ago.
Armand Anthony Assante, Jr. (born October 4, 1949) is an American actor.