My wife and I are a team, and it's good for my work because I'm interested in working from a stable base.

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.

Only God would adore his own death.

Dreams won't always take you on a straight path to destiny, but they're usually related to what your soul wants for you.

Stories in themselves are not automatically good

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

There is no dignity like the dignity of a soul in agony.

The window of the soul cleansed perfectly and made completely transparent by the divine light

We suffer equal pain from the pertinacious adhesion of unwelcome images, as from the evanescence of those which are pleasing and useful.

We till shadowed days are done, We must weep and sing Duty's conscious wrong, The Devil in the clock