Although I get so much fan mail from Great Britain, tell me, am I more famous there than Michael Madsen?
Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule.
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.
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 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 got the best roles. I was a very serious actor. Besides me, no one (from the class) has done anything in the business.
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 think being a movie star is about whether an audience can watch you and care about you.
I think I may be in - potentially - three classics. That sounds like I'm bragging.
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 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.
It was dog food. Beef livers with onions in a can. You open it up and it looks like vomit.
My wife and I are a team, and it's good for my work because I'm interested in working from a stable base.
Why am I the way I am? Well, I used to be different.
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." About his role in Natural Born Killers (1994)
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.
When he hired me, Oliver [Oliver Stone] said, 'I'm making a table. I have four legs already - Robert Downey Jr., Juliette Lewis, Tommy Lee Jones and Woody Harrelson. And I'm going to have a fifth leg on my table. And if that leg is wobbly, my table is a very fucked-up table, and things fall off of it. You're not going to be a wobbly leg, are ya?' And I said, "No. I won't, I won't, I won't fuck up your table." - On getting the part in Natural Born Killers (1994)
I was a wayward kid, a rambunctious and angry teenager, but I found acting as a fifteen-year-old. I saw some movies with Montgomery Clift and James Dean, and I read biographies about them - then Marlon Brando - and I got it in my head that I wanted to be an actor. The first scene I did in an acting class was from "In the Boom Boom Room", by David Rabe. I played "Big Al". It was a very violent and emotional scene, and I liked that - I realized I had it in me.
Temptation is impossible for me to resist...Come on. This is Hollywood. It's in the job description.
I was the star of the class. I got the best roles. I was a very serious actor. Besides me, no one from that class has done anything in the business." - On his time as a drama student at Temple University
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." - On advice to aspiring actors
Steven [Steven Spielberg] said he was going to give me a second chance, but that he would have me tested throughout the shoot. He said that even if I only started using on the last day of production he'd recast the part and re-shoot everything. He didn't want to be part of my problem." - On his drug problem and Saving Private Ryan (1998)
For years I fooled myself into thinking I could or even was getting off drugs. People knew I was using but they still hired me for their films. I was grateful back then, but it was what contributed to my downward spiral. People talk about my bizarre behaviour at the 1995 Toronto Film Festival when we were promoting Devil in a Blue Dress (1995). I was so high during that period I don't remember making the movie, let alone promoting it." - Quote from 2001
Arrested in Los Angeles, after his wife called police claiming she'd been physically injured by Tom during an argument at their apartment. [24 January 1997]
According to a 2001 interview with The Calgary Sun, he credits Robert De Niro with turning his life around during the filming of Witness to the Mob (1998) (TV). De Niro showed up on his doorstep with Tom's mother and told him they were there to drive him to jail or rehab. He chose rehab.
Formerly engaged to Heidi Fleiss.
His brother, Aaron, is a writer and lives in Detroit.
His younger brother is Paul Sizemore
Is an Italian-American.
Enjoys weightlifting.
Practiced martial arts as a teenager.
Attended Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.
Had his nose accidentally broken by Juliette Lewis during the filming of the prison cell fight scene in Oliver Stone's _Natural Born Killers (1994)_ .
Has played characters in seven movies who have died in shootouts: True Romance (1993), Enemy of the State (1998), Saving Private Ryan (1998), Heat (1995), Natural Born Killers (1994), Red Planet (2000) and Dreamcatcher (2003). If counting voice work, the number goes up to eight!: He did the voice of Sonny Forelli in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002) (VG), who is killed in a gang shootout.
As a struggling young actor in New York, Sizemore worked for three years as a waiter in the World Trade Center.
Auditioned six times for the part of Mr. Pink in Reservoir Dogs (1992).
Gained 44 lbs. to portray John Gotti in Witness to the Mob (1998) (TV) by gorging on ice cream, pizza, pasta with cream sauce, meatball sandwiches and drinking weight gainer shakes.
In February 2005, he failed a court-ordered drug test after he was caught trying to use a prosthetic penis to fake the results, the second time he has been caught trying this.
Was in attendance at Chris Penn's funeral
Has twin sons Jayden and Jagger born in July of 2005 with ex-girlfriend Janelle McIntire.
Claims to have spent $11 million on lawyers and legal fees fighting previous drug and domestic violence charges.
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