- [about his preference for being nude when at home] There's something therapeutic about nudity. Clothing is one of the external things about a character. Take away the Gucci or Levis and we're all the same. But not when the nanny is around. But I will with my wife and kids.
- [on keeping a successful marriage] Keep your fights clean and your sex dirty.
- I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic.
- I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story I want to tell.
- I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to be a good guy, a bad guy, a victim, an abuser. There are all kinds of people in the world, and playing them is what acting is all about.
- I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game.
- [on the Oscar season] I call it the bitter season, because year after year, I`ve seen it come and go and not been a member of the club. And yet I`ve continued to make a living as an actor.
- I think of myself more as a workhorse actor. It will be hot and cold and up and down, but no one will kick me out of the business.
- "I worked with kids quite a bit in kind of rough situations, between Sleepers and The River Wild. Just I’ve been in situations that have been kind of difficult for kids, and what I like to do is make it as clear as possible to them that I am not that guy, and they are not that person. That we are actors and we’re going to pretend together. That we are going to be colleagues and roll up our sleeves and act off of each other."
- (about filming Apollo 13 in a NASA flight simulator)
"I don't know if you've ever been in a plane that's diving toward the earth, on purpose. But you know, it's a strange thing to want to go and do over 600 times."
- (about his brief nude scene in "Wild Things")
"I have a "no full frontal nudity" clause in my contract, and I was a producer on the movie, so in theory I could have sued myself."
- (about the Bacon Brothers) "I don't care what we play, they're gonna start screaming, "Footloose! Footloose!"
- (about filming "Murder In The First" with his friend Gary Oldman)
"You know, when somebody's thrown a bucket of cold water on you, and he's beating you with a blackjack, and the blood is flying, it helps if the person wielding the blackjack is someone you trust. It lets you fly."
- (about the 1998 film Wild Things)
"I figured, "Hey, I get the scene where I videotape [Neve Campbell and Denise Richards] making out in a pool." But when I got to work that night, they shot me holding the camera and making ogling faces without the girls even being around. They sent me home and then filmed the girls. I was like, "You're kidding!"
- "Somebody once asked me if I changed my name for acting. What kind of an idiot would want to suffer a lifetime of food jokes? And every article ever written about me says something about "sizzling Bacon" or "out of the frying pan" or "bringing home the Bacon."
- "I don’t believe it when I hear an actor complaining about how famous he is and how he’s really just a shy person, you know? That’s a giant load of shit. Actors desperately want to be seen. Otherwise, why not be a dentist? That said, when it comes to walking into the drugstore to buy some Preparation H, it would be nice to be invisible."
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