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Tom Sizemore

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Katherine Heigl was a movie star. I thought she was going to be one, and it was fun to watch this young actress getting better every day.
Tom Sizemore
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.
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I have tried to make decisions to work with great directors, with good scripts, and that makes the pickings real slim.
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I was a wayward kid, a rambunctious and angry teenager, but I found acting as a fifteen-year-old.
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It was dog food. Beef livers with onions in a can. You open it up and it looks like vomit.
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My wife and I are a team, and it's good for my work because I'm interested in working from a stable base.
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I don't know what to say about it except Tom Hanks is a great person, a serious person; he's dissatisfied in a very likeable way, in a very discreet way, and Steven Spielberg is similar in his discretion and drive. But Spielberg is calm. He's this driven filmmaker and visionary. He really is.
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I'm essentially a momma's boy with a good education.
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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?
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When I was a teenager, you wanted to go to the movies. Go and see 'Mean Streets,' go and see 'The Conversation,' go and see 'Taxi Driver.'
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'Argo' is a work of art.
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Temptation is impossible for me to resist... Come on. This is Hollywood. It's in the job description.
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I never hurt anybody; I only hurt myself and my family. I never did anything mean to anybody, I was just mean to myself.
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I like to touch things. In my house I have a lot of velvet drapes and thick, lush couches.
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I was coddled, and there is a permissiveness that sometimes goes on with people who are successful as actors.
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Most movies aren't any good.
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If someone messes with me, I'm going to mess with them.
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Although I get so much fan mail from Great Britain, tell me, am I more famous there than Michael Madsen?
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I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going.
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Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule.
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It's just acting. I take acting seriously but up to a point.
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I'm from Detroit. I was from a kind of violent neighbourhood.
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Acting is never done. We're trying to keep it real and make sure that you're entertained and it seems unrehearsed.
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It used to be the case that studio executives like Robert Evans, Darryl Zanuck, and David Selznick would put aside money for what they wanted to be great movies regardless of whether they would perform well with the box office.
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I'm a big baby. I'm not tough at all.
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I am not as crazy as people think.
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I'm not really rebellious. People think I am, but I'm not.
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I'm trying to reestablish my career and do great work and give my kids the life they deserve.
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I have an idealistic approach to acting. I want to be great at it, but you can't be great if the scripts are not there and the director doesn't know what he's doing.
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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.
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Why am I the way I am? Well, I used to be different.
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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.
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I have thin skin. I'm not a tough guy.
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I'm afraid of the dark. I'm not kidding.
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I wouldn't want anything to do with me.
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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.
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I weighed 190 when I got to boot camp, I came out at 178. I ate only the beans and tomato sauce.
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Although my mother and father were both completely legit, it was all around me, this crime and licentiousness.
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I'm a very fortunate actor. I'm blessed to be the position I'm in right now.
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I think being a movie star is about whether an audience can watch you and care about you.
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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.
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I am a guy's guy. I'm all boy.
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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.
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I shot a couple of movies in jail, but I was never in jail.
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I was an anomaly because my father was a Harvard man, and he came from a family of poor people.
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Some actors try to play parts and do things they can't do. Being funny is one of them. Being funny's hard.
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Fatherhood didn't change me in the beginning very much.
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I play tough guys in movies and behaved like one in front of the press because I thought that was what a man did.
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I really desire a partner.
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I like Michael Bay a whole lot. And Jerry Bruckheimer. But I love Ben Affleck as a person, as a director, as an actor.
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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?
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We get second chances. We get 19th chances.
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