Tom Sizemore Quotations

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.

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.

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

Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule.

It was dog food. Beef livers with onions in a can. You open it up and it looks like vomit.

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

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

Some actors try to play parts and do things they can't do. Being funny is one of them. Being funny's hard.

Temptation is impossible for me to resist... Come on. This is Hollywood. It's in the job description.

Fatherhood didnt change me in the beginning very much.

I'm afraid of the dark. I'm not kidding.

Acting is never done. We're trying to keep it real and make sure that you're entertained and it seems unrehearsed.

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.

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

I am not as crazy as people think.

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.

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 like to touch things. In my house I have a lot of velvet drapes and thick, lush couches.

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

I shot a couple of movies in jail, but I was never in jail.

I think being a movie star is about whether an audience can watch you and care about you.

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

I weighed 190 when I got to boot camp, I came out at 178. I ate only the beans and tomato sauce.

I'm a big baby. I'm not tough at all.

I'm a very fortunate actor. I'm blessed to be the position I'm in right now.

She knew what she could do to people,

I got the best roles. I was a very serious actor. Besides me, no one (from the class) has done anything in the business.

I'm a success story. I'm one of the winner - knock on wood.

I think I may be in - potentially - three classics. That sounds like I'm bragging.

Extra ... I lost everything. I didn't just lose one thing. I left my house ... with $8.38 to my name and I didn't know where I was going.

Even though it did well at the box office and I think my performance is fine, I thought ('The Relic') could have been a better movie.

I used to be very rigid because I just wanted to get through it. 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.

Strangling that girl was the hardest thing I've ever had to do. Number one, it was her first movie. Two, she was really nice. And three, there she was in Winslow, Arizona-the middle of nowhere--with me and Oliver Stone, and she had to get raped and murdered.

This is the maraschino cherry on the banana split of bad luck I have been having,

It was the first new wave, the French new wave that was inculcating the United States. He was right on the cutting edge. Always has been,

I try to stop and take a 10-second break and ask myself before I do something: One, is this going to improve my life for my children, or two, will there be a potential for something to go wrong here?

I'm a detail freak. If I'm playing a Marine sergeant, like in Sergeant Ryan, I wanna know everything there is to know about being a Marine sergeant.

I know what's out there. I did a little of that running around. It left me bereft and bored, running around with a bunch of B-level models and half-ass movie stars.

I'm very, very proud to be a father, ... I just want to put this very difficult time behind me, although I feel that what doesn't kill you in fact makes you a stronger person and I just want to live a long healthy life and be a good dad.

I know I'm in it. ... I'm not making a penny. I don't have a dollar today, ladies and gentlemen.

You don't have to be a knockdown beauty-boy to be a leading man.

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

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.

Well you know for me, the action is the juice.

I'm not really rebellious. People think I am, but I'm not.

I'm trying to reestablish my career and do great work and give my kids the life they deserve.

I'm a very fortunate actor. I'm blessed to be the position I'm in right now. Hell, I'm blessed to be in any position, you know? There are so many guys who had good lives, great lives, and blew it.. .I think there are some guys who think they don't deserve to have good lives. They feel they don't deserve their good fortune, so they throw it away. One of my good friends was Chris Farley. Chris blew it. He blew the whole enchilada.

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

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

Temptation is impossible for me to resist Come on. This is Hollywood. It's in the job description.