Tom Sizemore

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

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

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.

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.

I know a lot about the Battle of the Bulge, and a lot about World War II from 'Saving Private Ryan.'

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

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

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.

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