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" I know a lot about the Battle of the Bulge, and a lot about World War II from 'Saving Private Ryan.' "

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" 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. "

" I'm essentially a momma's boy with a good education. "

" 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. "

" I'm afraid of the dark. I'm not kidding. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" My family is very discreet. White-shoe, you know? "

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

" I play tough guys in movies and behaved like one in front of the press because I thought that was what a man did. "

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

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

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

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

" Why am I the way I am? Well, I used to be different. "

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

" I'm a big baby. I'm not tough at all. "

" I was coddled, and there is a permissiveness that sometimes goes on with people who are successful as actors. "

" I'm not really rebellious. People think I am, but I'm not. "

" Acting is never done. We're trying to keep it real and make sure that you're entertained and it seems unrehearsed. "

" I was a wayward kid, a rambunctious and angry teenager, but I found acting as a fifteen-year-old. "

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

" 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? "

" My wife and I are a team, and it's good for my work because I'm interested in working from a stable base. "

" 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. "

" I'm from Detroit. I was from a kind of violent neighbourhood. "

" 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. "

" I really desire a partner. "