I shot a couple of movies in jail, but I was never in jail.

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 write because, if I don't, my characters will murder me in my sleep.

You can never know what it is that you have forgotten.

Let us throw away our candles and our torches. Let us flood the cities with light. Let us bring a new light to men! -Equality 7-2521

Well no, I think we won't have that problem but as far as paparazzi I'm speaking, I will deal with that.

Me being able to be acting and doing other things has opened me as an artist, and I think even more from a visual standpoint.

We are born with our eyes closed and our mouths open, and we spend our whole lives trying to reverse that mistake of nature.

To praise great actions with sincerity may be said to be taking part in them.

My dad calls me 'Mac' a lot, from 'Mike Tyson's Punch Out' - Little Mac is the main character. I was obsessed. I can still beat Mike Tyson on 'Punch Out.'

Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for.

Water, we go to you dirty and rise from you clean.