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 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 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.

Well you know for me, the action is the juice.

If you don't throw yourself into something, you'll never know what you could have had.

If you're not at least willing to die for something- something that really matters- in the end, you die for nothing.

The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.

I used to dance, but now I only move.

Running after balls, diving, taking a home run away, it gives me such a good feeling. I am happy to do it.

Gold medals are made out of sweat, blood and tears and effort in the gym every day.

As the mind shrinks at the will of the initiate, thought flows in to fill the spaces so created.

Keep on doing what you're doing.

... the strictness of to-day may have at any moment to be purchased by the laxity of to-morrow.

I think, like most people, my moral values tend to be pretty fuzzy.