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I Always Felt That If You're Not Trying Something Different Each Time Out Of The Gate, You're Being Safe, And You Don't Ever Want To Find That Place Of Safety. I Like That, Each Time, Before I Even Go In Front Of The Cameras, The Studio's Reaction Will Be Fear.

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I Always Felt That

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I Always Felt That If You're Not Trying Something Different Each Time Out Of The Gate, You're Being Safe, And You Don't Ever Want To Find That Place Of Safety. I Like That, Each Time, Before I Even Go In Front Of The Cameras, The Studio's Reaction Will Be Fear.

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Being Different

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Falling In Love

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Narrative Structure

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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.

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If You Fall In Love With 2 People At Once Choose The Second One Because If You Truly Loved The First One You Never Would Have Fell In Love With The Second One

Falling In Love

I Don't Drink Hard Liquor Anymore, But I Sometimes Order Lagavulin Just For The Smell. It's So Good. It's Unbelievable.

We Don't Always Cry Because We Are Weak, Sometimes We Cry Because We Have Been Strong, Brave And Courageous For Way Too Long.

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.

For Me, Ambition Has Become A Dirty Word. I Prefer Hunger. To Be Hungry- Great. To Have Hopes, Dreams- Great.

Out On The Street, You Never Know What You're Getting, And Suddenly Two Days Later You're Beating Yourself In The Head With A Tennis Racket, Wearing A Towel, Quoting Poe. You Don't Want That For Your Kid. You Really Don't Want That.

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.

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

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.

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.

I Don't Want To Run Around And Look At A Shot Through A Monitor. That Doesn't Improve What I'm Trying To Do. I Figure, Once I've Done My Job, It's None Of My Business.

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

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.

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].

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

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

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

I'd Rather Fight A Buzzsaw Than Dance.

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.

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.

Ugliness Is Better Than Beauty. It Lasts Longer And In The End, Gravity Will Get Us All.

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!

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.

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.

They Said, "you Get $2 Million To Make The Film, If You're Not In It. If You Are In It, You Get $5 Million To Make The Film." There Was No Way To Make The Thing For $2 Million, So I Made It For $5 Million. And Then, It Turned Out There Was No Way To Make The Thing For $5 Million. That's When It Got Weird.

[jack Sparrow]'s A Blast To Play. I'll Be In A Deep, Dark Depression Saying Goodbye To Him. I'll Keep The Costume And Just Prance Around The House, Entertain The Kids....i Mean, At A Certain Point, The Madness Must Stop, But For The Moment, I Can't Say That He's Done.

I Was Definitely Never A Crowd Pleaser.

I'm Not A Great Pothead Or Anything Like That... But Weed Is Much, Much Less Dangerous Than Alcohol.

Tomorrow It'll All Be Over, Then I'll Have To Go Back To Selling Pens Again.

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.

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.

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