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

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.

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.

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

What you conquer within you conquer without.

Authors are now marketed like promising movie starlets and must rattle around the nation's television stations to try to assert a salable identity different from that of the other starlets.

I grew up a massive Beatles fan.

I try to find different ways of expressing myself. Without that I will die.

I've never been a classic Gaulist! Not a Gaulist at all.

When I get sick, I go to my doctor like everyone else. A doctor has powerful tools that may help me. Or those tools may hurt me, make me worse. I have to decide. It's my life. It's my responsibility.

Practice writing and speaking about what you do.

As a straight news correspondent I would never make an issue of someone's personal life unless they have put it out there for public consumption.

Belief is a very peculiar thing: we tend to put more store in a belief we like than a fact we hate.

Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.