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Barrie And The Wonderful Characters He Created, Lewis Carroll, Even French Literature, Like Baudelaire Or Over In The States, Poe, You Open Those Books, You Open The Flowers Of Evil And Begin To Read. If It Were Written Today, You'd Be Absolutely Stupefied By The Work. It's This Incredible Period Where The Work Is Timeless, Ageless. So Yeah, I Just Love All Those Guys. It's My Deep Passion In Those Great 19th Century Writers.

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Barrie And The Wonderful

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Barrie And The Wonderful Characters He Created, Lewis Carroll, Even French Literature, Like Baudelaire Or Over In The States, Poe, You Open Those Books, You Open The Flowers Of Evil And Begin To Read. If It Were Written Today, You'd Be Absolutely Stupefied By The Work. It's This Incredible Period Where The Work Is Timeless, Ageless. So Yeah, I Just Love All Those Guys. It's My Deep Passion In Those Great 19th Century Writers.

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Knowing That A Great Bit Of The Technology Is Active And Actually Happening, And That The Technology That We're Talking About, In Terms Of Uploading A Human Consciousness, Is Probably Not All That Far Away, To Be Honest. Indeed, It Will Happen. It's Pretty Close.

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I Was Always A Fan Of The Great Old Spaghetti Westerns, The Sergio Leone Films. But The One That Always Sticks With Me, That I Just Thought Was Brilliant And Perfect Is "cat Ballou." Lee Marvin In "cat Ballou."

Throughout My Lifetime I've Left Pieces Of My Heart Here And There. And Now, There's Almost Barely Enough To Stay Alive. But I Force A Smile, Knowing That My Ambition Far Exceeded My Talent.

I Went Through Various Stages In My Childhood, As We All Do, Various Stages Of Obsessions With People And Things. And I Did. I Wanted To Be The First White Harlem Globetrotter.

Things Go Wrong For Me, All The Time, With Technology. I'm Not Familiar Enough With It, And I'm Too Old School A Brain To Be Able To Figure It Out. I'm Dumb. Anything That I Have To Attack With My Thumbs, For Any Period Of Time, Makes Me Feel Stupid. So, I Try To Avoid It, As Much As Possible, To Protect My Thumbs.

You're Looking At Each And Every Potential Corner For An Air Bubble To Escape. Absolutely! You're On The Best Of Your Game.

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I Condition Myself To Believe That Once The Scene Is Done, Once The Movie Is Done, My Job Is Done, And Whatever Happens After That Is None Of My Business.

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My Experience With Sondheim Has Been Nothing But Glorious, Especially For A Guy Who Doesn't Sing.

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That Pipe, Just So Happens To Lead To The Room Where I Make The Most Delicious Flavored Chocolate Covered Fudge." Then He Will Be Made Into Strawberry Flavoered Chocolate Covered Fudge, They'll Be Selling Him By The Pound, All Over The World!" No, I Wouldn't Allow It. The Taste Would Be Terrible. Can You Imagine Augustus Flavored Chocolate Covered Gloop? Ew. No One Would Buy It.

It Really Depends On What The Screenplay Is Asking Of You, And What Your Responsibility Is To That Character. You Have The Author's Intent To Deal With, You Have The Filmmaker's Vision, And Then You Have Your Own Wants, Desires And Needs For The Character. It's Collaborative. But I Knew, Right Off The Bat, That There Was No Way To Go Into Some Sort Of Pink-haired, Clown-nosed Character With Ronald Mcdonald Shoes.

Over The Years All These Vampire Movies Have Come Out And Nobody Looks Like A Vampire Anymore.

People Get Famous Now For I-don't-know-what. People Have Reality Shows Because They're A Hollywood Socialite, And These Things Become Very Successful And They Generate A Shitload Of Money For The Company. And It's Multiplying, To Where You're Literally Looking Into Your Next Door Neighbor's Bathroom With Reckless Abandon. It Is Like Watching A Fire. You Can't Take Your Eyes Off Of It.

I'm A Big Fan Of Revenge, I Think [sweeney Todd] It's A Story Of A Man Who Clearly Has Obsessions To Avenge The Horror That Happened To Him.

The Problem Is That Everybody Treats Teenagers Like They're Stupid.

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We Would Just Go Out And Line Up A Bunch Of Cans And Shoot With Rifles, Handguns And At Times, Submachine Guns... When I Was A Kid It Was A Controlled Atmosphere, We Weren't Shooting At Humans... We Were Shooting At Cans And Bottles Mostly. I Will Most Certainly Take My Kids Out For Target Practice.

Whenever You Have A Photo Shoot Or Something Like That, It’s Like-you Just Feel Dumb. It’s Just So Stupid.

I Was Really Intrigued By Them, Became Fascinated By Them Because They Were Asking Questions That Couldn't Be Answered Almost, Or Were Making Statements That You Couldn't Quite Understand. Like, 'i'm Investigating Things That Begin With The Letter M.' That Took Me Through A Whole Stratosphere Of Possibilities, And Doing A Little Research And Discovered That The M Is Mercury.

Asking Questions

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You Could Make An Analogy To A Security Guard Who, Three Weeks Prior, Was Mowing Lawns For A Living. The Second He Puts A Uniform On And That Badge, He's A Man. I Imagine The Majority Of Us Have Felt The Wrath Of The Over-zealous Security Guard Guy. Is There Something Lying Dormant In The Man, That's Waiting To Be Pumped Up With That Kind Of Power? I Don't Know. Does It Reveal Him? I Don't Know. Does It Change Him? I Don't Know.

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When Faced With Two Choices Simply Toss A Coin. It Works Not Because It Settles The Question For You, But Because In That Brief Moment When The Coin Is In The Air, You Suddenly Know What You Are Hoping For. If You Love Two People At The Same Time, Choose The Second One, Because If You Really Loved The First One You Wouldn't Have Fallen For The Second.

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I Literally Went From Being Unable To Play My Rent To Being On A Plane The Next Day, Being Paid Peanuts.

My Self-image It Still Isn't That Alright. No Matter How Famous I Am, No Matter How Many People Go To See My Movies, I Still Have The Idea That I'm That Pale No-hoper That I Used To Be. A Pale No-hoper That Happens To Be A Little Lucky Now. Tomorrow It'll Be All Over, Then I'll Have To Go Back To Selling Pens Again.

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Falling In Love

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It's Important To Keep Challenging Myself And Try To Come Up With Some New Face Every Now And Again.

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You Can Close Your Eyes To The Things You Don't Want To See, But You Can't Close Your Heart To The Things You Don't Want To Feel.

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Yeah, In Every Film That I've Been Lucky Enough To Do With Tim, There's Always Some Form Of Torture, And The Nails Were Tim's Idea. They Were The Length Of The Fingers And Stuff, But It Was Okay Because I Had A Troop Of People Who Would Help Me Go To The Bathroom. They Had To Have Treatment Afterwards But They're Okay Now. That Is True.

Jesus, Music Has Always Been My First Love. I Use Music In My Work Because It's The Fastest Way To An Emotional Place. You Hear A Song, And That Memory Comes Right Back-- You're There... Making Music Is Immediate, And It's All About You. If You're Playing Guitar, The Feeling Comes Through-- The Way You Bend The Note, The Intensity With Which You Hit The Strings. With Making Films, Although It's Real Emotion, It's False Emotion. You're Lying.

You Grow Up A Bit Damaged Or Broken Then You Have Some Success But You Don't Know How To Feel Good About The Work You're Doing Or The Life You're Leading.

Puberty Was Very Vague. I Literally Locked Myself In A Room And Played Guitar.

I Think, For Me As An Actor, If You Get To A Place Where You're Satisfied, You're Happy With It, Then You're Dead. It's Over. You're Not Hungry Anymore. You Won't Try Things Anymore.

Well, Having No Intelligence, I'm Looking Forward To Gaining Some, Whether Artificial, Superficial Or Super-duper.

Looking Forward

I'd Just Thank The People Out There Who Have Been With My Up-and-down, Weird-road, Strange Career And Supported Me And Stuck With Me All These Years. I Mean, They're My Boss. That's What Keeps Me Working.

I Experimented With Drugs And I Experimented With Everything That Little Boys Do - Vandalism, Throwing Eggs At Cars, Breaking And Entering Schools And Destroying A Room. But I Finally Got To A Point Where I Looked Around And Said, "this Is Not Getting Me Anywhere. I'm Stagnating With These Guys." They Were Getting Drunk And High Every Weekend. I Got Out.

You Don't Have To Underestimate Your Audience Anymore. They'd Actually Like To Laugh A Little Bit. So, The Character Came To Me And Once It's Got Its Grips In You, There's Nowhere To Go.

I'm All For Whatever It Takes To Get Wherever You Need To Get With A Character, As Long As You Don't Wipe It On Me.

Here I Was Going To Work With Pacino Thinking, "i'm Not Going To Get Lucky Twice. There's No Way. This Guy Is Going To Hand Me My Ass." He Looks Like The Kind Of Guy Who's Going To Hand You Your Ass. It's Al Pacino.

Not All Treasure Is Silver And Gold, Mate

People Make Great Films. I Just Don't Have The Eyes To Watch Them.

I Think Alice [cooper] Probably, On Some Level, Recognized That Good Old Self-destructive Streak That Does Happen In Some People's Lives. So, Though I Wasn't There With Alice And The Vampires, But I'd Give Anything In The World To Have Been, I Had My Own Version, I Suppose, A Little Later.

It's Absolutely Fine When Wile E. Coyote Walks In With A Band-aid On His Head, After A 3,000-pound Rock Is Dropped On Him. That Is What Ed Wood Meant By The Suspension Of Disbelief.

The Idea Of Directing A Film Is A Strange One For Me. I Feel Anti-mathematical, In A Way, In That Sense. I Don't Like When Things Make Sense. I Prefer If They Don't.

France And The Whole Of Europe Have A Great Culture And An Amazing History. Most Important Thing, Though, Is That People There Know How To Live! In America They've Forgotten All About It. I'm Afraid That The American Culture Is A Disaster.

When I Was A Kid, We Watched The Vietnam War On The Six O'clock News, And It Was Desensitizing. You Felt You Were Watching A War Film; Meanwhile You Were Really Watching These Guys Getting Blown To Bits. Parents Need To Protect Their Kids From Watching That Stuff.

An Actor Shouldn't Have To Leave The Set And Go Home And Write A Bunch Of Stuff For A Bunch Of Other People, The Next Day. I Found It Very Unpleasant.

You Gotta Be Careful: Don't Say A Word To Nobody About Nothing Anytime Ever.

I Don't Know If You Remember Me, But I Used To Work Here In The Factory." Were You One Of Those Despicable Spies Who Every Day Tried To Steal My Life's Work And Sell It To Those Paraseeded Cop Cat, Candy Making Cads?" No Sir!" Then Wonderful, Welcome Back!

I Still Love The Layers Of Cinema Whether It's 35mm Or 16mm Or 8mm, Super 8 Which I Love. I Love The Grain. If I Had My Druthers I'd Film Everything In Kodachrome.

With Any Part You Play, There Is A Certain Amount Of Yourself In It. There Has To Be, Otherwise It's Just Not Acting. It's Lying.

I Try To Stay In A Constant State Of Confusion Just Because Of The Expression It Leaves On My Face.

This Dress Code Should Be Mandatory For Most Events.

I Really Love The Experience Of Moving Things Around, In Terms Of Being A Director.

Other Kids Pack Lunch

They Tell You To Be Careful Because Maybe You Don't Want To Meet Your Heroes. I've Met Pretty Much Every One, And I've Never Been Let Down.

I Am Doing Things That Are True To Me. The Only Thing I Have A Problem With Is Being Labeled.

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Everything Here Is Edible; Even I'm Edible. But That, Dear Children, Is Cannibalism, And Is In Fact Frowned Upon In Most Societies.

Smooth Sailing Is What I Hope For. No, I'm Okay With No Big Ups, No Big Downs, It's All Right. Just Go Full Steam Ahead, All Things Well And Good, Yeah. I Mean As A Family Man, All You Want Is, As A Dad, Pure Happiness For Your Kids, That's A Universal Parent Thing. Yeah, That's It, That's My Dream, Happy Kids.

Ironically, It Was Only Maybe A Year Prior To Tim Calling I Had Re-read Alice In Wonderland And Through The Looking Glass, And What I Took Away From It Was These Very Strange, Little Cryptic Nuggets That He'd Thrown In There.

It's Amazing When You Get To A Certain Age, And You Talk About Sleep In The Same Way You Spoke About Getting Inebriated... I Got Eight Hours Last Night. It Was Fantastic!

If You Love Two People At The Same Time, Choose The Second. Because If You Really Loved The First One, You Wouldn't Have Fallen For The Second.

I Know Exactly What I Want. Everything. Calm, Peace, Tranquility, Freedom, Fun, Happiness. If I Could Make All That One Word, I Would - A Many-syllabled Word.

If I Can Avoid The Mirror When I Brush My Teeth In The Morning, I Will. I Find Security And Safety In The Most Profound Degree Of Ignorance. If You Can Just Stay Ignorant Of Almost Everything You'll Be Ok. It's Fine To Stay Informed And Look At Things, But To Judge Things Will Bog You Down.

There's A Drive In Me That Won't Allow Me To Do Certain Things That Are Easy.

[on Buying A Private Island] Money Doesn't Buy You Happiness, But It Buys You A Big Enough Yacht To Sail Right Up To It.

I Don't Trust Anyone Who Hasn't Been Self-destructiv E In Some Way, And Who Hasn't Gone Through Some Sort Of Bout Of Self-loathing. You've Got To Bang Yourself Around A Bit To Know Yourself.

My Recipe For Success Is Chance, Basically. Just Luck. It's A Miracle That People Still Hire Me After Some Of The Stuff I've Gotten Away With. Honestly!

I Think Everybody's Weird. We Should All Celebrate Our Individuality And Not Be Embarrassed Or Ashamed Of It.

I Suppose Nowadays It's All A Question Of Surgery, Isn't It? Of Course The Notion Is Beautiful, The Idea Of Staying A Boy And A Child Forever, And I Think You Can. I Have Known Plenty Of People Who, In Their Later Years, Had The Energy Of Children And The Kind Of Curiosity And Fascination With Things Like Little Children. I Think We Can Keep That, And I Think It's Important To Keep That Part Of Staying Young. But I Also Think It's Great Fun Growing Old.

I Found A Girl, Fell In Love, She Had A Baby, And I Fell In Love Again.

I Always Figured That Once I Wrapped A Film, Then Anything Beyond That Is None Of My Business. If I Can Avoid Seeing The Final Product, Then All I Have In My Head Is Feeling Good About The Experience.

As A Teenager I Was So Insecure. I Was The Type Of Guy That Never Fitted In Because He Never Dared To Choose. I Was Convinced I Had Absolutely No Talent At All. For Nothing. And That Thought Took Away All My Ambition, Too.

It's Good To Experience Hollywood In Short Bursts, I Guess. Little Snippets. I Don't Think I Can Handle Being Here All The Time, It's Pretty Nutty.

I Love People. And When You Love People That Much That You're Disappointed In Them Every Day, That Love Can Turn To Hate In A Flash Of A Second.

My Kids, They're My Energy, My Soul, And My Nicest Friend.

I Would Say That He Has A Rather Limited And Uncreative Way Of Looking At The Situation.

I Don’t Think Of Myself As Being A Celebrity, It’s Too Mortifying. I Have A Hard Time Watching Myself On Screen And It’s Getting Worse. I Can’t Tell Whether My Work Is Good Or Not.

People In Life, When They Have A Tendency To Exaggerate Or Lie Or Whatever, You Always Sort Of Notice That Their Voice Goes Up Quite High.

I Realized That It Was Great To Have A Job, But It Didn't Have Anything Remotely To Do With What I Was Striving For, So Why Was I Doing It?

The Killing Of Everyone Was The Easy Part, The Most Difficult Part Was Lathering Them Up And Shaving Them, That's The Part That Freaked Me Out The Most.

I'm Scared Of Boogers. If Anyone Ever Showed Me A Booger I'd Smash Their Face In.

I Can't Stand Not Being Able To Joke Around On Set, So I Have To.

The Only Responsibility I Feel Is To Deliver Something That's New Or At Least To Attempt That. The Real Responsibility Is To Entertain And To Try And Make People Laugh.

I Was Poisoning Myself With Alcohol And Medicating Myself. I Was Trying To Numb Things. I Was Trying Not To Feel Things, And That's Ridiculous. It's One Of The Dumbest Things You Can Do, Because All You're Doing Is Postponing The Inevitable. Someday You'll Have To Look All Those Things In The Eye Rather Than Try To Numb The Pain.

I Certainly Had This Fascination With Monsters And Vampires As Did Tim And Whatever This Darkness, This Mystery, This Intrigue. And Then, As You Get Older, You Recognize The Erotic Nature Of The Vampire And The Idea Of The Undead.

You Do A Movie, Depending On The Character, There's Some Degree Of Makeup Involved, Especially When You're Playing A Vampire And You're All White And Kind Of Dead. Sleeves, Regarding Costumes, There Are Generally Sleeves, Which I Appreciate. I Think We All Do.

[the Huge Success Of Curse Of The Black Pearl] Made Perfect Sense To Me On The One Hand, And At The Same Time, It Made No Sense At All, Which I Kind Of Enjoyed. Even Now, With The Dolls And The Cereal Boxes And Snacks And Fruit Juices, It All Just Feels Fun To Me, In A Warholian Way. It's Absurd. It Doesn't Get More Absurd.

As Soon As We Fall In Love And We Realise We've Met The One The Rest Of Our Lives Can't Come Soon Enough. It's Not Like You're In A Rush To Get To The Finish Line, You're In A Rush To Feel And Experience Everything And Then Do It All Again.

Falling In Love

I Think Today We've Gone So Far Technologically And Also Just Emotionally And Psychologically, I Mean There's A Lot Of Crime Out There And There's A Lot Of Stuff Going On. People Don't Care That They're Going To Go To Prison. They Couldn't Give A Rat About The Repercussions. They Go Out And They Do What They Do And They Don't Care About Hurting Anyone Else.

When You Take On The Idea Of Playing Someone Like Jimmy Bulger, It's A Radically Different Process Because You're Going Into Make-up. The Only Way You Can Do It Is To Come Out Of Make-up Looking Like The Guy. If You Don't Look Like The Guy, It's Going To Bug You, All Day.

I Got To Take My Kids To The London Eye With No One Looking At Me Like I Was Johnny Depp. They Did Look At Me Like I Was Some Kind Of Sicko Walking Around With Beautiful Kids, But I Had A Perfect Disguise.

You Do The Work And You Want People To See It; But, Um While I'm Doing The Work, The Result Doesn't Matter At All To Me. Ultimately, I Don't, I Don't Care Whether The Film Is - You Know - Some Big Giant Box-office Bonanza And I Don't Care If Its A Complete Flop. To Me, When A Film Gets Made And It's Actually Finished It's A Success. They're All A Success In Their Own Way.

When Kids Hit One Year Old, It's Like Hanging Out With A Miniature Drunk. You Have To Hold Onto Them. They Bump Into Things. They Laugh And Cry. They Urinate. They Vomit.

Any Character That You Come Up With Or Create Is A Piece Of You. You're Putting Yourself Into That Character, But There's The Guise Of The Character. So There's A Certain Amount Of Safety In The Character, Where You Feel More Safe Being The Character Than You Do Being Just You

I Do Believe That You Have To Bring Some Degree Of Truth From Yourself To The Role [sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street ]in And I'll Admit It Here, I Have Shaved A Grown Man Before. I Have Done It. And It Wasn't Tim [burton].

In Terms Of Playing Like A Straight Leading Man Type Thing, I Feel Like All These Guys Are Kind Of Not Necessarily Leading Men But Straight Kind Of Characters. Even Though They May Seem Bizarre Or Strange, I Feel Like I Think Everybody's Nuts. I Mean, I Really Do. And The Weirdest Thing In The World Is To See Some Guy Who Is Just Super Earnest.

I'm A Dumb-ass, And I Poisoned Myself For Years. Now I Understand Things Better.

Luckily I Am Very, Very Privileged And Feel Very Lucky To Be Getting Work And My Kiddies Are Not Feeling The Brunt Of Any Kind Of Horror That's Going On Today. So I'm Super Lucky.

If It's Called A Selfie, Why Are There People In It?

I'd Never Even Sung In The Shower, I'm Too Mortified. But Once I Got Over The Initial Fear It Was Kind Of Enjoyable. Sondheim's Melodies And Lyrics Are A Real Pleasure To Tromp Around In, It's Really Beautiful Stuff.

When You Realize You're Essentially You're God, There Ain't Nothing On Earth More Powerful Than You, You Can Do Anything You Want.

They’re All About Where People Come From. The Only Thing Important Is Where Somebody’s Going.

Attention Is A Strange Sort Of Being, Anyway, The Idea Of Attention If Someone Appreciates Your Work. It's Always Nice That Someone Appreciates Your Work.

While They'd Be Setting Up Shots, Suddenly, There Were 17 Make-up Chicks, Just Listening To Marlon Telling These Amazing Stories That Were Probably Lies. He Was A Fascinating Individual. I Learned A Lot From Him.

I've Been Lucky Enough To Work With A Make-up Artist, Joel Harlow, Who You Can Throw Anything At. I Said, "joel, I Need To Go To The London Eye With My Children And I Want To Look Like A Roadie From Lynyrd Skynyrd."

I Just Watched Cartoons For Three Years, And That Had A Strong Affect On Me.

I Found The Evil In Myself A Long Time Ago, And I've Accepted It. We're Old Friends.

The Funny Thing Is You Oddly Don't Really Say Goodbye To All The Characters You've Played. There's Like A Chest Of Drawers In Your Head That You Can Always Access. They're Always Around. I'm Not Sure If That's Healthy. But They're All There.

I've Played English A Number Of Times, And Used An English Accent A Number Of Times, So It Becomes A Little Bit Of An Obstacle Course To Go, "oh, That's Teetering Into Captain Jack-ville," Or "this Is Teetering Into Chocolat Or Wonka." You've Got To Really Pay Attention To The Places You've Been. But, That's Part Of It. That's The Great Challenge. You May Get It Wrong. There's A Very Good Possibility That You Can Fall Flat On Your Face, But That's A Healthy Thing For An Actor.

I Think The Thing To Do Is Enjoy The Ride While You're On It.

I'm Not 'blockbuster Boy.' I Never Wanted To Be. I Wasn't Looking For That.

I've Always Enjoyed Hiding Behind These Characters. It's A Strange Thing, You're More Comfortable As A Character Than You Are In Life. I Could Stand Up In Front Of, It Doesn't Matter How Many People, As A Character. But If I Had To Do It As Myself And Give A Speech, I Would Be Liquid.

My Children's Favorite, And It's Funny Because They've Seen It But They Have A Difficult Time Watching It Because It's Their Dad And They Make That Connection, But Edward Scissorhands Is By Far My Kids' Favorite. They Just Connect With The Character, And They See Their Dad Feeling That Isolation, That Loneliness. He's A Tragic Character, So I Think It's Hard For Them. They Bawl.

Some Filmmakers Go Into A Film And It's Already Shot And Cut In Their Head.

How Many Chances To You Get To Make A Musical About A Serial Killer? The Minute Tim Burton Approached Me, I Was In.

I'm Shy, Paranoid, Whatever Word You Want To Use. I Hate Fame. I've Done Everything I Can To Avoid It.

I Still Approach A Scene As One Would Approach A Guitar Solo. You Don't Exactly Know How You're Going To Phrase This Or That. Which I Think Is Beautiful. That Idea Of Chance.

I Think When You Are Young, You Are Hoping That This Person Will Be The Right One. The One You Are Going To Be In Love With Forever, But Sometimes You Want That So Much, You Create Something That Isn't Really There.

I Actually Did Do A Musical Many Years Ago With John Waters Called Cry-baby, But Technically It Was Only Half Me - It Wasn't Me Singing. Tim's [ Burton] The Only Person Brave Enough To Actually Let Me Try To Sing.

Interestingly Enough, For Me, A Character Like Captain Jack, You Feel Like You Could Just Continue. The Possibilities Are Endless And Limitless. There Is Any Possibility Of Madness And Absurdity That Could Commence, So You Feel That, With This Character, You're Never Really Done.

I Had Just Had A Daughter, Who Was Three Or Three-and-half Years Old, And I Had Been Watching Nothing But Cartoons. That's Really It. There Was No Youtube. You're In France And You're Raising A Kid, So You Break Out The Tex Avery.

For A Long Time I Tried To Manage An Honesty And Openness About My Personal Life Because I’m Human And I’m Normal – Well, Semi-normal.

I Would Give Everything If I Could Only Keep My Family.

Pretty Much Any Drug You Can Name, I've Done It.

Having Been Familiar With "drunk" Once Or Twice Myself, That Lick Just Came To Me - And Yeah, It Sounded Very Drunk, So I Presented It To Alice [cooper]. It Felt Like He Wrote The Lyrics In About A Minute.

Religion Is A Fascinating Black Hole To Me.

With A Character Like A Captain Jack, Who Can Essentially Set Up These Verbal Land Mines Around Him, And Just Keep Passing The "absurdity Ball" Around And The "irreverence Ball" Around, And Keep People Guessing And Keep People Confused, There's Great Safety In That. Me, Myself, Personally, I Learn From It. It's A Real Pleasure, And I Do Need Him.

I'd Worked With Marlon [brando] A Couple Of Times, And He Was A Practical Joker. He Was Far More Interested In Getting Jokes Out Than Getting The Words Out. We Laughed All The Time.

Kids Accept A Lot More, And They Buy It, Because They're Free.

Laugh As Much As You Breathe And Love As Long As You Live.

Now, Bring Me That Horizon.

As You Get Older, You Recognize The Erotic Nature Of The Vampire And The Idea Of The Undead.

An Actor Needs To Be Not Remotely Anywhere Close To In Control, And A Filmmaker Has To Be Totally In Control.

After Having Been Confined To A Television Series - And It's A Luxury Job - Where You Can't Play Anything But One Particular Character For Nine Months Out Of The Year, It Will Make You Insane. It Didn't Affect Me. I Got Out Quick Enough.

If You Really Take A Step Back And Observe People Who Are Considered Super-normal And Watch Them A Bit, You'll Realize That They're Actually Completely Out Of Their Minds! Most People Are Really Nuts, And That's Fascinating.

I Was Always Fascinated By People Who Are Considered Completely Normal, Because I Find Them The Weirdest Of All

It's A Great Honor That Something That You Took Part In Creating Becomes This Forever Object.

I Just Happen To Be A Sucker For Humor. So Anywhere I Can Sneak In Something That I Find Potentially Interesting Or Funny I Do It As Much As I Can Get Away With.

My Body Is A Journal In A Way. It's Like What Sailors Used To Do, Where Every Tattoo Meant Something, A Specific Time In Your Life When You Make A Mark On Yourself, Whether You Do It Yourself With A Knife Or With A Professional Tattoo Artist.

I Did Mostly Alcohol. There Were Drugs, Too - Pills - And There Was A Danger That I Would Go Over The Edge. I Could Have. I Thank God I Didn't.

If You Catch Me Saying 'i Am A Serious Actor,' I Beg You To Slap Me.

There May Be Something In The Fact That When I Was A Little Kid I'd Been Told Growing Up That We Had Some Degree Of Native American Blood In Us, I Always Found That A Point Of Pride. So, When It Came To Cowboys And Indians I Most Certainly Did Not Want To Be John Wayne. I Wanted To Be One Of The Indians.

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You Can't Plan The Kind Of Deep Love That Results In Children. Fatherhood Was Not A Conscious Decision. It Was Part Of The Wonderful Ride I Was On. All The Math Finally Worked.

Me And Music. Music Was Always My First Love. It Was My First Love For Sure. And Still Is A Huge Part Of My Life.

I'm Not Even Born Yet. I'm Still Trying. I'm Still Pushing. I Don't Ever Want To Get To A Place Where I Feel Satisfied.

It's Funny What [producer Richard Zanuck Said About Even Though You Can't Quite Place When The Book Or The Story Came Into Your Life, And I Do Vaguely Remember Roughly Five Years Old Reading Versions Of Alice In Wonderland, But The Thing Is The Characters. You Always Know The Characters. Everyone Knows The Characters And They're Very Well-defined Characters, Which I Always Thought Was Fascinating. Most People Who Haven't Read The Book Definitely Know The Characters And Reference Them.

It's An Odd Thing When There Is A Fan Page For My Daughter Who Is Not Yet 13.

I'd Rather Fight A Buzzsaw Than Dance.

I Don't Think Anybody's Necessarily Ready For Death. You Can Only Hope That When It Approaches, You Feel Like You've Said What You Wanted To Say. Nobody Wants To Go Out In Mid-sentence.

Not Being Well-versed In That Arena Myself, It's A Little Bit Frightening Because I'm Not Very Good In Those Situations With Lots Of People And Lots Of Famous People And Cameras And All Of That. It's Not My Specialty.

Sometimes I Feel Like I'm Possessed With A Multitude Of Demons.

There Are These Mythic Unicorn-y Tales Of Method Acting, But Marlon [brando] Wanted To Have A Good Time.

I Don't Like Watching Myself In The Movies Because I Don't Like Being Aware Of The Product. I Like The Process. I Enjoy That.

You Never Think You're On The Verge Of Disaster While You're Looking Over The Edge Yourself. It's Your Friends And Family Who Are Trying To Get You To Stop Destroying Yourself And After A While It Kind Of Sank In And I Just Cleaned Up My Act.

I've Been Told I Smell Good. I Don't Look Like I Smell Good.

I Am An American. I Love My Country And Have Great Hopes For It. It Is For This Reason That I Speak Candidly And Sometimes Critically About It. I Have Benefited Greatly From The Freedom That Exists In My Country And For This I Am Eternally Grateful.

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