He [Nomar Garciaparra] could go 0-for-10 in rehab and it wouldn't mean anything.
Now I have shed my first blood. I feel no qualms, no pride, no remorse. There is only a weary indifference that will follow me throughout the war.
I'll tell you what bravery really is. Bravery is just determination to do a job that you know has to be done.
The true meaning of America, you ask? It's in a Texas rodeo, in a policeman's badge, in the sound of laughing children, in a political rally, in a newspaper. . . In all these things, and many more, you'll find America. In all these things, you'll find freedom. And freedom is what America means to the world. And to me.
I never liked being called the 'most decorated' soldier. There were so many guys who should have gotten medals and never did-- guys who were killed.
After the war, they took Army dogs and rehabilitated them for civilian life. But they turned soldiers into civilians immediately, and let em sink or swim.
No soldier ever really survives a war.
As an actor sometimes you can be a bit emotional and forceful, and that's not always the way to be.
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.
Humor comes from self-confidence.
You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.