I am not as crazy as people think.

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.

The important thing in life is to be.

In your haste you walk far too fast. And in doing so you often leave your soul behind.

Maxim 18: If the officers are leading from in front, watch out for an attack from the rear.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

If you are pro love, you have to be a little bit disloyal to the romantic feelings that propel you in the early days.

Where is the raised voice of black America? Why are we mute?

Go into something because you really like it, and then do it with a drive and enthusiasm so that it isn't work.

I never doubted myself. It just didn't work.

I am learning that a man can live profoundly without masses of things.

It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting.

The Web is trivially simple - massively successful and its like Karaoke - anybody can do it.