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 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.

That is how we become wise, by living each day attending to the lessons God puts in our path.

Make peace your purpose of life.

This feeling of warm personal attachment and deep affection is what connects, unifies, and binds our humanity.

Laughter—just good bone-shaking, belly-jiggling, light-in-the-head laughter, is a sure sign of health. The only one who hates it is Satan and all his wannabes.

I can't imagine ever doing anything else with my life. It's definitely a challenge but when you accomplish something it feels great!

Your mother betrayed my father as well as her Clan. You have no right to be a medicine cat. No right to even live among the Clans. I'll never forgive you for what you've done! Never!

[R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will.

What Messi brings to a team, no other player can bring. Messi can break a match wide open.

None of us works entirely in a vacuum. Unless you are uncompromisingly working to please yourself you must think to whom your photography is directed and how is it likely to be received.

I didn't want to stop before my time was up.