Well you know for me, the action is the juice.

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.

and yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had love and been loved back. she was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. a mother. a person of consequence at last.

When you feel neglected, think of the female salmon, who lays 3, 000, 000 eggs but no one remembers her on Mother's Day

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue

When you're doing a big-budget movie and you're four on the call sheet, you've got a lot of free time.

How do I feel about being a star now? Well I still try to live life and enjoy what I am doing.

You only live once, and the way I live, once is enough.

The experiences you'll have, the people you'll love, the jobs, the joys, the sorrows, the way you'll die. It is all predestined, unless you will a change.

I was minding my own business, really, and then all of a sudden, Hollywood approached me.

Once you let the words go, you have no control over how they're printed or what the media does with them. So there's no point in trying to make plans or to control it.

The '80s seem a real positive force. The '70s were deadening, in a lot of ways.