Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I have thin skin. I'm not a tough guy. "
Tom Sizemore
Skin
Guy
Thin
Related Quotes:
" 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. "
Tom Sizemore
She
Thought
Getting Better
" I read for 'Reservoir Dogs,' and it got down to me and Buscemi, and Quentin couldn't make up his mind. I really wanted that part, but Buscemi is great in that. I also got really close on 'Gladiator,' but Ridley Scott decided on Russell Crowe, who's perfect in it. "
Tom Sizemore
Down
Perfect
Mind
" I was coddled, and there is a permissiveness that sometimes goes on with people who are successful as actors. "
Tom Sizemore
People
Goes
Sometimes
" 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
" When I was a teenager, you wanted to go to the movies. Go and see 'Mean Streets,' go and see 'The Conversation,' go and see 'Taxi Driver.' "
Tom Sizemore
You
See
Go
" I wouldn't want anything to do with me. "
Tom Sizemore
Me
Anything
Want
" I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going. "
Tom Sizemore
Going
Am
Always
" I'm essentially a momma's boy with a good education. "
Tom Sizemore
Education
Boy
Good
" I'm afraid of the dark. I'm not kidding. "
Tom Sizemore
Afraid
Kidding
Dark
" A lot of acting, and I believe this, is either you can do it or you can't. "
Tom Sizemore
You
Acting
Believe
" My family is very discreet. White-shoe, you know? "
Tom Sizemore
Family
Discreet
Know
" I try to stop and take a 10-second break and ask myself before I do something: One, is this going to improve my life for my children, or two, will there be a potential for something to go wrong here? "
Tom Sizemore
Children
Life
Myself
" I never hurt anybody; I only hurt myself and my family. I never did anything mean to anybody, I was just mean to myself. "
Tom Sizemore
Only
Family
Hurt
" 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 was a tough kid. I don't punch people anymore. "
Tom Sizemore
People
Kid
Anymore
" Although I get so much fan mail from Great Britain, tell me, am I more famous there than Michael Madsen? "
Tom Sizemore
Mail
Tell
More
" 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 weighed 190 when I got to boot camp, I came out at 178. I ate only the beans and tomato sauce. "
Tom Sizemore
Sauce
Boot Camp
Got
" 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
" Although my mother and father were both completely legit, it was all around me, this crime and licentiousness. "
Tom Sizemore
Father
Around
Both
" 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'm trying to reestablish my career and do great work and give my kids the life they deserve. "
Tom Sizemore
Great
Trying
Life
" 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'm not really rebellious. People think I am, but I'm not. "
Tom Sizemore
People
Think
I Am
" 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. "
Tom Sizemore
Cool
Want
Get
" I really desire a partner. "
Tom Sizemore
Partner
Desire
Really
" Temptation is impossible for me to resist... Come on. This is Hollywood. It's in the job description. "
Tom Sizemore
Come
Impossible
Job
" 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
" If someone messes with me, I'm going to mess with them. "
Tom Sizemore
Me
Them
Messes
" 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