Quotes from Tom Sizemore

I really desire a partner.

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

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

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

I want to do 'Company of Heroes 2,' if they do it. It depends on how the movie performs, but they hope it will perform well. They have a franchise on their mind, and if it's a franchise, man, I'm going to be a very happy person.

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

I read for 'Reservoir Dogs,' and it got down to me and Buscemi, and Quentin couldn't make up his mind. I really wanted that part, but Buscemi is great in that. I also got really close on 'Gladiator,' but Ridley Scott decided on Russell Crowe, who's perfect in it.

We get second chances. We get 19th chances.

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

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

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.

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

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 am not as crazy as people think.

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

I wanted to get on with my life when I was 16. I knew I wanted to be an actor. I wanted to get out of Detroit.

My family is very discreet. White-shoe, you know?

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.

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.'

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

I was a tough kid. I don't punch people anymore.

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

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?