Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I was a tough kid. I don't punch people anymore. "
Tom Sizemore
People
Kid
Anymore
Related Quotes:
" Some actors try to play parts and do things they can't do. Being funny is one of them. Being funny's hard. "
Tom Sizemore
Funny
Hard
Play
" I was an anomaly because my father was a Harvard man, and he came from a family of poor people. "
Tom Sizemore
Father
He
Man
" 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? "
Tom Sizemore
Now
Will
Question
" I have an idealistic approach to acting. I want to be great at it, but you can't be great if the scripts are not there and the director doesn't know what he's doing. "
Tom Sizemore
You
Want
Know
" I used to be very rigid because I just wanted to get through it. Now, if I think a scene should go a certain way and it goes another, I'm able to go that new way with ease. "
Tom Sizemore
New
Go
Think
" I want to do 'Company of Heroes 2,' if they do it. It depends on how the movie performs, but they hope it will perform well. They have a franchise on their mind, and if it's a franchise, man, I'm going to be a very happy person. "
Tom Sizemore
Mind
Heroes
Company
" I was a wayward kid, a rambunctious and angry teenager, but I found acting as a fifteen-year-old. "
Tom Sizemore
Found
Kid
Teenager
" Most movies aren't any good. "
Tom Sizemore
Movies
Any
Good
" It's just acting. I take acting seriously but up to a point. "
Tom Sizemore
Take
Seriously
Acting
" We get second chances. We get 19th chances. "
Tom Sizemore
Second Chances
Second
Get
" I don't know what to say about it except Tom Hanks is a great person, a serious person; he's dissatisfied in a very likeable way, in a very discreet way, and Steven Spielberg is similar in his discretion and drive. But Spielberg is calm. He's this driven filmmaker and visionary. He really is. "
Tom Sizemore
Say
Drive
Serious
" I am not as crazy as people think. "
Tom Sizemore
Crazy
I Am
Think
" My wife and I are a team, and it's good for my work because I'm interested in working from a stable base. "
Tom Sizemore
Good
Team
Because
" I'm essentially a momma's boy with a good education. "
Tom Sizemore
Education
Boy
Good
" Temptation is impossible for me to resist... Come on. This is Hollywood. It's in the job description. "
Tom Sizemore
Come
Impossible
Job
" I may be a vain person, but I'm not a vain performer. "
Tom Sizemore
Person
Performer
May
" It used to be the case that studio executives like Robert Evans, Darryl Zanuck, and David Selznick would put aside money for what they wanted to be great movies regardless of whether they would perform well with the box office. "
Tom Sizemore
Money
Office
Box
" It was dog food. Beef livers with onions in a can. You open it up and it looks like vomit. "
Tom Sizemore
Open
You
Looks
" I am a guy's guy. I'm all boy. "
Tom Sizemore
Guy
Am
Boy
" Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you. "
Tom Sizemore
Time
You
Believe
" I don't know if people know that Sylvester Stallone is one of the most decent gentlemen that I've ever met. He's the most consistent friend I've ever had. "
Tom Sizemore
People
Consistent
Friend
" I used to blame my problems on other people. But my moment of clarity, if you want to call it that, came when I was looking in the mirror one day and just burst into tears. It wasn't just that I looked bad, it was that I knew my problem was me. "
Tom Sizemore
Mirror
People
Blame
" Although my mother and father were both completely legit, it was all around me, this crime and licentiousness. "
Tom Sizemore
Father
Around
Both
" I like Michael Bay a whole lot. And Jerry Bruckheimer. But I love Ben Affleck as a person, as a director, as an actor. "
Tom Sizemore
Actor
Person
Love
" I really desire a partner. "
Tom Sizemore
Partner
Desire
Really
" I have tried to make decisions to work with great directors, with good scripts, and that makes the pickings real slim. "
Tom Sizemore
Decisions
Real
Good
" I think being a movie star is about whether an audience can watch you and care about you. "
Tom Sizemore
Star
Watch
You
" Whatever it is, if you draw, you paint, you're a carpenter, you play football, the more you do it, you're a journalist, the more stories you write, the more people you interview and navigate your way through these different personalities to get your story, the better you're going to get at it. Acting's no different. "
Tom Sizemore
Football
Better
People
" A lot of acting, and I believe this, is either you can do it or you can't. "
Tom Sizemore
You
Acting
Believe
" I wanted to get on with my life when I was 16. I knew I wanted to be an actor. I wanted to get out of Detroit. "
Tom Sizemore
Life
Out
Knew