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" I have tried to make decisions to work with great directors, with good scripts, and that makes the pickings real slim. "
Tom Sizemore
Decisions
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" 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. "
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" I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going. "
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" I know a lot about the Battle of the Bulge, and a lot about World War II from 'Saving Private Ryan.' "
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" I shot a couple of movies in jail, but I was never in jail. "
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" If someone messes with me, I'm going to mess with them. "
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" It's just acting. I take acting seriously but up to a point. "
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" I play tough guys in movies and behaved like one in front of the press because I thought that was what a man did. "
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" Fatherhood didn't change me in the beginning very much. "
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" I was a tough kid. I don't punch people anymore. "
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" I have an idealistic approach to acting. I want to be great at it, but you can't be great if the scripts are not there and the director doesn't know what he's doing. "
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" Most movies aren't any good. "
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" I never hurt anybody; I only hurt myself and my family. I never did anything mean to anybody, I was just mean to myself. "
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" A lot of acting, and I believe this, is either you can do it or you can't. "
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" I was a wayward kid, a rambunctious and angry teenager, but I found acting as a fifteen-year-old. "
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" Temptation is impossible for me to resist... Come on. This is Hollywood. It's in the job description. "
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" Although I get so much fan mail from Great Britain, tell me, am I more famous there than Michael Madsen? "
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" I read for 'Reservoir Dogs,' and it got down to me and Buscemi, and Quentin couldn't make up his mind. I really wanted that part, but Buscemi is great in that. I also got really close on 'Gladiator,' but Ridley Scott decided on Russell Crowe, who's perfect in it. "
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" I'm essentially a momma's boy with a good education. "
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" I like Michael Bay a whole lot. And Jerry Bruckheimer. But I love Ben Affleck as a person, as a director, as an actor. "
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" 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. "
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" I have thin skin. I'm not a tough guy. "
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" I'm a very fortunate actor. I'm blessed to be the position I'm in right now. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm from Detroit. I was from a kind of violent neighbourhood. "
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" I'm trying to reestablish my career and do great work and give my kids the life they deserve. "
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" Acting is never done. We're trying to keep it real and make sure that you're entertained and it seems unrehearsed. "
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" It used to be the case that studio executives like Robert Evans, Darryl Zanuck, and David Selznick would put aside money for what they wanted to be great movies regardless of whether they would perform well with the box office. "
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" When I was a teenager, you wanted to go to the movies. Go and see 'Mean Streets,' go and see 'The Conversation,' go and see 'Taxi Driver.' "
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