I'm trying to reestablish my career and do great work and give my kids the life they deserve..

It's just acting. I take acting seriously but up to a point..

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

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

I'm a big baby. I'm not tough at all..

I'm essentially a momma's boy with a good education..

Whatever it is, if you draw, you paint, you're a carpenter, you play football, the more you do it, you're a journalist, the more stories you write, t….

Temptation is impossible for me to resist Come on. This is Hollywood. It's in the job description..

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

I used to blame my problems on other people. But my moment of clarity, if you want to call it that, came when I was looking in the mirror one day and….

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 play tough guys in movies and behaved like one in front of the press because I thought that was what a man did..

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 dise….

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

I'm a very fortunate actor. I'm blessed to be the position I'm in right now. Hell, I'm blessed to be in any position, you know? There are so many guy….

Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule..

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?.

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?.

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

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..