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

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

I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going.

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?

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

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.