I'm a big baby. I'm not tough at all.

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.

Anything for you, Dru. And I mean it. Now, be quiet and let me concentrate.

As you look at me and listen to me, please remember the often repeated truth that one prisoner of conscience is one too many.

Don't worry about what people say.

We have to put in our time every day to try and achieve and learn so that we can develop our talents and each of you, thank goodness, have special talents; each of you are special persons.

Animal experiments are no joke. Thank goodness scientists are finding better, more humane ways to develop treatments for cancer and other killer diseases.

If mutual fund directors are independent, then I'm the lead character in the Bolshoi Ballet.

You throw your best punch, otherwise don't do it.

When you realize how perfect [or at least better than it could be] everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.

Measurements, observations, descriptions can only be considered scientific when they are independently confirmed by other people.

You are the single biggest influence in your life.