My wife and I are a team, and it's good for my work because I'm interested in working from a stable base.

Some actors try to play parts and do things they can't do. Being funny is one of them. Being funny's hard.

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

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

I try to stop and take a 10-second break and ask myself before I do something: One, is this going to improve my life for my children, or two, will there be a potential for something to go wrong here?

I used to be very rigid because I just wanted to get through it. 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.

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, the more people you interview and navigate your way through these different personalities to get your story, the better you're going to get at it. Acting's no different.

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 disease. Make sure your passion is not misplaced.

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

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 just burst into tears. It wasn't just that I looked bad, it was that I knew my problem was me.

Fatherhood didn't change me in the beginning very much.

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

Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.

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

I am not as crazy as people think.

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

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

I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going.