You must have to want it so badly, if there is any way you can live without it, get out of it. Being an unsuccessful actor is like having a skin disease. Make sure your passion is not misplaced.

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.

There's no better makeup than confidence

So many of us, myself included, need to keep our sense of personal outrage in check. Each human beings position on the planet is one of intense humility.

If I was going to lie to you, I'd already be elected.

Go not to the object; let the object come to you.

Chronically dysfunctioning families are also delusional. Delusion is sincere denial.

You cannot be in Christ and be indifferent to the sin in your life.

Like the bright, cool dawn after a night of prison and of thunder, Man can taste that freedom sought so long.

Don’t call it a comeback, I’ve been here for years.

For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner... I go to the piano, and I play preludes and fugues of Bach... It is a sort of benediction on the house.

Are you spontaneously enthusiastic about everyone having everything you can have?