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

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

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

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

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

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" 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? "

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" 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. "

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

" I want to do 'Company of Heroes 2,' if they do it. It depends on how the movie performs, but they hope it will perform well. They have a franchise on their mind, and if it's a franchise, man, I'm going to be a very happy person. "

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

" 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.' "

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

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

" I like to touch things. In my house I have a lot of velvet drapes and thick, lush couches. "

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

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