Top 33 Tom Sizemore Quotes

I am a guy’s guy. I’m all boy.

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

I really desire a partner.

I’m a big baby. I’m not tough at all.

I am not as crazy as people think.

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

I was coddled, and there is a permissiveness that sometimes goes on with people who are successful as actors.

I like Michael Bay a whole lot. And Jerry Bruckheimer. But I love Ben Affleck as a person, as a director, as an actor.

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

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

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.

I wouldn’t want anything to do with me.

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.

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

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 my mother and father were both completely legit, it was all around me, this crime and licentiousness.

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

I may be a vain person, but I’m not a vain performer.

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.

Most movies aren’t any good.

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.

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

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?

We get second chances. We get 19th chances.

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 don’t know what to say about it except Tom Hanks is a great person, a serious person; he’s dissatisfied in a very likeable way, in a very discreet way, and Steven Spielberg is similar in his discretion and drive. But Spielberg is calm. He’s this driven filmmaker and visionary. He really is.

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

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

I have tried to make decisions to work with great directors, with good scripts, and that makes the pickings real slim.

Fatherhood didn’t change me in the beginning very much.

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

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

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