Then for the past quarter-century, along with his acting career, he's been a song-and-dance man. Danza brings his show “Standards & Stories” to the Venice Performing Arts Center on Wednesday. It features him singing Great American Songbook selections, tap-dancing, playing ukulele and telling stories, backed by a band.

When did Tony Danza learn to tap dance?

So he got up. And ever since then, Tony Danza has been on the job, although that job's changed from time to time. He learned to tap dance at 33, during the end of “Taxi” when the cast “pretended to tap dance” in a scene and “I thought 'I gotta learn how to do this.

Can Tony Danza speak Italian?

As he talked about his family and how they assimilated to America, Danza joked: "In my house you could only speak English. You weren't allowed to speak Italian.