I'm trying to reestablish my career and do great work and give my kids the life they deserve.

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.

I don't love anything." - Parker "I know." - Everett

A broken vessel cannot hold anything within itself, therefore only something supernatural can hold itself within a broken vessel.

What begins in fear usually ends in folly.

The absolute value of love makes life worth while, and so makes Man's strange and difficult situation acceptable. Love cannot save life from death; but it can fulfill life's purpose.

I'd rather be shot than be seen falling out of some trendy club.

I think my anorexia was to do with being a teenager, not being in films.

The world doesn't owe anyone a living—including veterans.

Anyone who finds himself putting down several commas close to one another should reflect that he is making himself disagreeable.

I think you can't really reach the emotionally intense stuff without having built a genuine light, playful, connected energy, to begin with.

All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!