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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

God bless all people.

Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.

I like to think I've been a good example and an inspiration to some people. And some people say that about me, but I'm just going about my work and doing what I do best. I'm a very professional 'Me.'

Not here not there not anywhere!

Often, our most rewarding dreams are staring us right in the face, but for some reason we focus on how hard things are, how we are scared of the unknown and what would happen if we failed.

God dwells within me. As me.

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.

No punishment for women who have partial birth abortions.

Anger and hatred are the materials from which hell is made.

I just never give up. I fight to the end. You can't go out and say, 'I want a bag of never-say-die spirit.' It's not for sale. It has to be innate.