Temptation is impossible for me to resist Come on. This is Hollywood. It's in the job description.

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.

Together we are better

We spend the first half of our lives making ourselves sick, and the second half of our lives trying to make ourselves un-sick.” – Kevin W. Reese

Better to find your own way than to blindly trust the words of others, whoever they are.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

If somebody is doing more and more to make other people's lives better, have them make all they can, if that's what drives them, because that's what we want.

I just want to keep trying to surprise myself and I want to keep challenging myself.

Hatred, slavery's inevitable aftermath.

Don't waste your time being upset about something you can't change. Begin again and do it better this time.

I did so much theater, where everybody I worked with was so much better than me, that I just sort of learned.

Not only does political coverage often lose the signal—it frequently accentuates the noise.