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" 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

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" I'm trying to reestablish my career and do great work and give my kids the life they deserve. "

" 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 was an anomaly because my father was a Harvard man, and he came from a family of poor people. "

Tom Sizemore

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" I shot a couple of movies in jail, but I was never in jail. "

" I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going. "

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" Katherine Heigl was a movie star. I thought she was going to be one, and it was fun to watch this young actress getting better every day. "

" I am a guy's guy. I'm all boy. "

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Guy

Boy

" I really desire a partner. "

" 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. "

" Although I get so much fan mail from Great Britain, tell me, am I more famous there than Michael Madsen? "

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" 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. "

" Although my mother and father were both completely legit, it was all around me, this crime and licentiousness. "

" I have tried to make decisions to work with great directors, with good scripts, and that makes the pickings real slim. "

" It was dog food. Beef livers with onions in a can. You open it up and it looks like vomit. "

" 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. "

" If someone messes with me, I'm going to mess with them. "

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" I may be a vain person, but I'm not a vain performer. "

" I was a tough kid. I don't punch people anymore. "

" I never hurt anybody; I only hurt myself and my family. I never did anything mean to anybody, I was just mean to myself. "

" A lot of acting, and I believe this, is either you can do it or you can't. "

" I like Michael Bay a whole lot. And Jerry Bruckheimer. But I love Ben Affleck as a person, as a director, as an actor. "

" Fatherhood didn't change me in the beginning very much. "

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Fatherhood

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" We get second chances. We get 19th chances. "