I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going.

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.

Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.

No amount of service we do can impress God, only our service to ordinary people can

Raining with words

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

As a model, you really get to work everywhere in the world. You get a little bit of this, a little bit of that.

Fishing provides time to think, and reason not to. If you have the virtue of patience, an hour or two of casting alone is plenty of time to review all you’ve learned about the grand themes of life.

There's always an asterisk behind somebody's name who hasn't won the Super Bowl. There shouldn't be, but that's kind of the way history works.

Being resilient is the essence of my life.

Series work is just grueling.

Demonstration of mastery gives a feeling of power and that feeling of power is a good feeling.