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.

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

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.

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 play tough guys in movies and behaved like one in front of the press because I thought that was what a man did.

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.