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

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

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

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

" It's just acting. I take acting seriously but up to a point. "

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

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

" Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule. "

" 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? "

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

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" 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 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. "

" I wouldn't want anything to do with me. "

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

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

" I weighed 190 when I got to boot camp, I came out at 178. I ate only the beans and tomato sauce. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm a very fortunate actor. I'm blessed to be the position I'm in right now. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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? "

" 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. "