I'm not really rebellious. People think I am, but I'm not.

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.

Tears never reached you anywhere you had to go.

Forgive for yourself and for the peace it will bring to your pain.

Focus on the mission.

A well educated man with an independent mind is a type of man liked by no government!

It is done... the precious portrait placed in the hands of the gentlemen for safe keeping.

You don't have to be big to be great.

Persons unmask their evilest qualities when they do quarrel.

What is the duty of the circumstances God has put me into?

It's easier to crush a dream than realize one, forming a bond is infinitely more difficult than breaking one

Those who live simply are often pure, while those who live luxuriously may be slavish and servile. It seems that the will is clarified by plainness, while conduct is ruined by indulgence.