Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.

I like to touch things. In my house I have a lot of velvet drapes and thick, lush couches.

Why am I the way I am? Well, I used to be different.

If someone messes with me, I'm going to mess with them.

It was dog food. Beef livers with onions in a can. You open it up and it looks like vomit.

Although I get so much fan mail from Great Britain, tell me, am I more famous there than Michael Madsen?

I weighed 190 when I got to boot camp, I came out at 178. I ate only the beans and tomato sauce.

I didn't come to Hollywood to drink or get high, and I don't want to be considered a cool actor - I want to be a great actor.

I know that 20 years from now if anyone asks me one question, it will be, 'What was it like to be in Saving Private Ryan?

I think being a movie star is about whether an audience can watch you and care about you.

I'm afraid of the dark. I'm not kidding.

You wander. You work nearly every job known to man, it seems, only to arrive at the wonderings of philosophy.

Aren’t there different electrical outlets here? And what about money? And isn’t it-” “Relax, Tess, ” Taylor told me. “I have everything covered.

If you are willing to do only what’s easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what’s hard, life will be easy.

When you open to the world, the world opens to you.

Apartment living is tough action. Just the whole idea that you share a washer and dryer always freaked me out.

I look up to Bernard Hopkins as a fighter. I'm honored to be his co-main event and to be able to give a great performance.

It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.

I've had a couple of guys that I've had co-produce records with me through my career, and it's fun to work with a co-producer.

Reform, like charity, must begin at home.

The British - who rarely start a fight, but always know how to finish it - have nothing to be ashamed of.