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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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 think being a movie star is about whether an audience can watch you and care about you. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Some actors try to play parts and do things they can't do. Being funny is one of them. Being funny's hard. "

" Most movies aren't any good. "

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

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

" I really desire a partner. "

" 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. "

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