Tom Sizemore
The Quotes

“When I Quit Smoking I’ll be perfect!”

“Robert, (Downey Jr), was always a very dear friend of mine, and it’s been a tragedy watching that. But he’s got it together now, so I hope and pray he makes it.”

“You don’t have to be a knockdown beauty-boy to be a leading man.”

“I think I may be in – potentially – three classics. That sounds like I’m bragging.”

"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’m a success story. I’m one of the winner – knock on wood.”

“I’ve got more fans than people think.”

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

“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.”

“It’s (‘The Match’) a nice little romantic comedy and I really liked the people involved. The script is really lovely, really sweet.”

“Chris, (Farley), was also a good friend of mine. His death was a horrible tragedy. I still have a hard time thinking about that. But it’s always their choice. It’s sad, it’s just sad. Let’s leave it at that.”

"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 think Steven wanted to depict the fact that D-Day was a complete screw up. You know, it was the ingenuity of the common G.I. and the common marine that saved the day."

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

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

"Can't even see my penis. I dream of the day I can see my penis."

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

"Steven was very even-tempered. No matter how graphic or horrifying it was, he never lost his cool."

"The Relic is a much better film for me being in it. Don't you think?"

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

"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 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."

"It's called the last good war, I think Steven wanted to show that even though there was a very identifiable enemy, a force that needed to be stopped, which was the German army and Adolf Hitler, there is no such thing as a good war."

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

“Steven (Seagal), you have a nice hairdo, and you run really cool - I mean, when you run it’s like your thighs are six feet long or something - but you’ve set acting back 200 years....”

“I get lots of letters from people who really like that guy (Jack Scagnetti in ‘Natural Born Killers’). It’s alarming...”

“People who have done worse things (than John Gotti) aren’t being treated this way. 23 hour lock-down, no human voices, in a dungeon. He’s treated like a piece of meat...”

“Mickey Rouke’s a fool. He’s a miserable motherfucker and he doesn’t really act. He just smokes cigarettes...”

“I’d see him and go, “Hey, Batman (to Val Kilmer, whilst filming ‘Heat’). We’re in a fix. Can you get us out?” We had to cool it. It was getting annoying. Anyone would have gotten a little mad...”

“Tom (Hanks) and I had to run in the front. I threw up all down my shirt the first day...”

“How the fuck can anything be cool in this century when you’ve had Mao, Stalin and Hitler killing 90 million fuckin’ people...”

“My character (Michael Cheritto in ‘Heat’) is a regular guy...well, he robs banks. But his neighbours think he’s a regular guy...”

Oliver (Stone) is a genius, and he’s great to work for, but he’s mad - and no, I don’t mean that in the nicest possible way...”

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

“Stephen Dorff makes me nuts, but I don’t think he should be killed...I think he should be spanked...”

“Even though we kids were bright and did well, with my dad there was no winning. It was like there was Picasso, and everyone else’s art was dreck...”

“I met John Wayne Gacy. He said he was innocent. Yeah, yeah, everybody’s innocent. Even OJ - that piece of shit. Jesus man, you had him in this country (England) - I can’t believe that. He’s a fucking pariah in the US. He should be in prison...”

“Bob (De Niro) was there for me. I get a little emotional just thinking about it...”

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