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?

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I weighed 190 when I got to boot camp, I came out at 178. I ate only the beans and tomato sauce.

I think being a movie star is about whether an audience can watch you and care about you.

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.

'Argo' is a work of art.

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 my mother and father were both completely legit, it was all around me, this crime and licentiousness.

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

I am a guy's guy. I'm all boy.

I am not as crazy as people think.

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.

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.

I have thin skin. I'm not a tough guy.

I have tried to make decisions to work with great directors, with good scripts, and that makes the pickings real slim.

I like Michael Bay a whole lot. And Jerry Bruckheimer. But I love Ben Affleck as a person, as a director, as an actor.

I never hurt anybody; I only hurt myself and my family. I never did anything mean to anybody, I was just mean to myself.

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.

I really desire a partner.

I shot a couple of movies in jail, but I was never in jail.

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.

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.

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

I was an anomaly because my father was a Harvard man, and he came from a family of poor people.

I was coddled, and there is a permissiveness that sometimes goes on with people who are successful as actors.

I wouldn't want anything to do with me.

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

I'm a very fortunate actor. I'm blessed to be the position I'm in right now.

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

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

I'm from Detroit. I was from a kind of violent neighbourhood.

I'm not really rebellious. People think I am, but I'm not.

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

If someone messes with me, I'm going to mess with them.

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.

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

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.

Most movies aren't any good.

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.