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

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 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.

Well you know for me, the action is the juice.

Great moment, great memory.

You shouldn't want to be like everyone else. Then you wouldn't be like you.

One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.

It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.

If I put my mind to something, it happens. I do know that's not necessarily psychic. But I always feel like there's something around me protecting me.

To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.

I believe that everyone has some huge talent in them; the really lucky ones discover what it is.

I am not against Israel, I am against Zionists.

There. I've said everything I wanted to say without actually having to use the words "please stay

Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ... Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.