It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.

My TV show had been cancelled; nothing else had gone anywhere; some alliances I had made petered out and nothing came of them and I was looking at a long, long year ahead of me in which there was no work on the horizon, the phone wasn't ringing. I had two kids, one of them a brand-new baby, and I didn't know if I would be able to keep my house.

Prior to Saving Private Ryan I never worked with men. I was always working with some babe, and it was always about falling in love, and it just got turned around. I'm not looking for any particular kind of story. I wait until it comes across my desk.

We're part of a greater humanity and we can actually affect the world by the choices we make once we leave the theater.

I don't think anybody's mind's gonna be changed.

I did a 'Love Boat!' And based on my trip on the 'Love Boat,' I said, 'I'd just as soon not do 'Fantasy Island.''

I just know that every man I kill the farther away from home I feel.