My wife and I are a team, and it's good for my work because I'm interested in working from a stable base.

You must have to want it so badly, if there is any way you can live without it, get out of it. Being an unsuccessful actor is like having a skin disease. Make sure your passion is not misplaced.

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

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

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

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