After winning the Oscar for his role as Tommy DeVito in the movie GoodFellas - Drei Jahrzehnte in der Mafia (1990), his entire acceptance speech was "It's my privilege. Thank you." When asked why he didn't say more, he said "I really didn't think I was going to win.".
[on his good friend and Mein Vetter Winnie (1992) co-star, the late Fred Gwynne] It takes
somebody who's very serious to pull off a character like Herman
Munster [from Gwynne's series Die Munsters (1964)]. It's not simple to play the goof. Fred was not Herman. He was
an intelligent, quiet gentleman.
