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

Understanding the Quote: "i found the evil in myself a long time ago, and i've..."

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Best Work
Do The Best
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.
Country
Freedom
Grateful
Anything I've Done Up Till May 27th 1999 Was Kind Of An Illusion, Existing Without Living. My Daughter, The Birth Of My Daughter, Gave Me Life.
Daughter
Done
May
I Never Wanted To Be The Guy People Looked At. I Felt I Could Only Be Myself When I Was Alone, That I Turned Into Some Kind Of Novelty. The Only Way I Could Get Through That Time Was To Drink. I Poisoned Myself With Alcohol For Years But I've Never Been Into Drugs In The Way It Was Sometimes Made Out.
Years
People
Guy
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.
Baby
Years
Water
I'm Not Blockbuster Boy.
Boys
Blockbuster
America Is Dumb, It's Like A Dumb Puppy That Has Big Teeth That Can Bite And Hurt You, Aggressive.
Hurt
America
Dumb
My Kids, They're My Energy, My Soul, And My Nicest Friend.
Kids
Soul
Energy
The Term 'serious Actor' Is Kind Of An Oxymoron, Isn't It? Like 'republican Party' Or 'airplane Food.'
Party
Airplane
Actors
Puberty Was Very Vague. I Literally Locked Myself In A Room And Played Guitar.
Inspirational
Guitar
Rooms
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.
Love
Relationship
Pregnancy
Thats What A Ship Is, You Know. Its Not A Keel And A Hull And A Deck And Sails. Thats What A Ship Needs. But What A Ship Is. What The Black Pearl Really Is . . . Is Freedom.
Sailing
Black
Nautical
Tomorrow It'll All Be Over, Then I'll Have To Go Back To Selling Pens Again.
Tomorrow
Selling
Pens
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.
Safety
Trying
Cameras
When I'm At Our House In France I Totally Cut Myself Off From The Rest Of The World. I Never Have To Listen To Phones Ringing And That's Because - And Vanessa Would Confirm This - Phones Are Banned From The House. We Have A Beautiful Life And I Feel That Spending Time In France Has Just Calmed Me Down And Made Me Stop Worrying About Things Which Aren't Really Important.
Funny
Beautiful
Cutting
I Would Give Everything If I Could Only Keep My Family.
Inspirational
Giving
My Family
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.
Nuts
People
Mind
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.
Hate
People
Flash
I Don't Pretend To Be Captain Weird. I Just Do What I Do.
Captains
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.
Children
Dad
Loneliness
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.
Fall
Numbers
Challenges
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
Character
Safety
Pieces
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.
Pain
Eye
Alcohol
I've Thought Of Doing Many Things In My Life, Under The Influence Of Life, And I've Never Actually Thought Of Straddling Two Carriages While They're Moving.
Moving
Two
Influence
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.
First Love
Firsts
Stills
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."
Cat
Perfect
Fans
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.
Book
Reading
Character
I Think Everybody's Weird. We Should All Celebrate Our Individuality And Not Be Embarrassed Or Ashamed Of It.
Inspirational
Being Yourself
Self Esteem
Am I A Romantic? I've Seen 'wuthering Heights' Ten Times. I'm A Romantic.
Romantic
Gambling
Height
The Problem Is That Everybody Treats Teenagers Like They're Stupid.
Teenager
Stupid
Problem
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.
Self
Loathing
Bangs
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.
Self
Ideas
People
A Dishonest Man You Can Always Trust To Be Dishonest.
Men
Pirate
Sparrows
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.
White
People
Childhood
There Were So Many Great Teachers That Had So Much To Offer. The Idea Of Being Rigid, Why Would You Do That? People Have Their Things, But Why Be Rigid With Any Education When You Can Take Things From Here And Take Things From There?
Teacher
Ideas
People
The Challenge For Me Is Still To Do Something That Hasn't Been Beaten Into The Movie Going Consciousness. Otherwise What Am I In It For?
Movie
Challenges
Actors
I've Been Told I Smell Good. I Don't Look Like I Smell Good.
Smell
Looks
Trips To The Dentist - I Like To Postpone That Kind Of Thing.
Kind
Dentist
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.
Technology
Talking
Knowing
Marriage Can Be Whatever You Define It As. For Example, I Don't Feel Like I Need A Piece Of Paper That Says I Own Her And She Owns Me. I Think Signing A Piece Of Paper Doesn't Mean Anything In The Eyes Of God Or In The Eyes Of People. The Thing Is, If You Are Together And You Love Each Other And Are Good To Each Other, Make Babies And All That, For All Intents And Purposes You Are Married.
Baby
Mean
Eye
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.
Lying
Voice
People
The Ultimate For Me Would Be To Do A Feature That Didn't Require Any Narrative Structure.
Narrative Structure
Would Be
Ultimate
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.
Motivational
Family
Kids
Other Kids Pack Lunch
Kids
Lunch
Packs
Some Filmmakers Go Into A Film And It's Already Shot And Cut In Their Head.
Cutting
Film
Shots
She's Kind Of A Walking Poem, She's This Perfect Beauty...but At The Same Time Very Deep, Very Smart.
Smart
Perfect
Kind
There's The Whole Mad Hatter's Dilemma, It Was The Amount Of Mercury That They Used In The Glue To Make The Hats. Everything Was Damaging. So, In Terms Of The Mad Hatter, Looking At It From That Perspective Of This Guy Who Literally Is Damaged Goods, Physically Damaged, Emotionally A Little Obtuse, And Taking That And Deciding That He Should Be - As Opposed To Just This Hyper, Nutty Guy - He Should Explore All Sides Of The Personality At An Extreme Level.
Mad
Perspective
Personality
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.
Thinking
Over You
Trying
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!
Sleep
Night
Eight
I've Never Been Particularly Ambitious. I'm Driven By The Moment.
Ambitious
Moments
Driven
Most People Are Really Nuts And That's Fascinating To Me.
Nuts
People
Fascinating
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.
Rocks
Coyotes
Band
They Stick You With Those Names, Those Labels -- ‘rebel’ Or Whatever; Whatever They Like To Use. Because They Need A Label; They Need A Name. They Need Something To Put The Price Tag On The Back Of.
Motivational
Price Tag
Names
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.
People
Office
Giants
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.
Goodbye
Character
Funny Things
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.
Character
People
Giving
I Was Angry And Frustrated Until I Started My Own Family And My First Child Was Born. Until Then I Didn’t Really Appreciate Life The Way I Should Have, But Fortunately I Woke Up.
Children
Should Have
Appreciate
One Of The Greatest Pieces Of Advice I've Ever Gotten In My Life Was From My Mom. When I Was A Little Kid There Was A Kid Who Was Bugging Me At School And She Said "okay, I'm Gonna Tell You What To Do. If The Kid's Bugging You And Puts His Hands On You; You Pick Up The Nearest Rock.
Mom
School
Kids
I'm Attracted To The Extreme Light And The Extreme Dark. I'm Interested In The Human Condition And What Makes People Tick. I'm Interested In The Things People Try To Hide.
Life
Dark
Light
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.
Feelings
Lucky
Today
People Make Great Films. I Just Don't Have The Eyes To Watch Them.
Eye
People
Watches
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.
Jobs
Character
Years
For Me, The Question Was, How Can One Take A Live-action Performance And Put It In The Parameter Of One Of Those Cartoons? How Much Can You Get Away With?
Cartoon
Action
Get Away
I Always Had An Affinity For Lizards. I've Always Felt Somewhat Close To Them. They're Reptiles. I Find Myself Feeling Somewhat Reptilian At Times.
Feelings
Reptiles
Lizards
Sometimes I Feel Like I'm Possessed With A Multitude Of Demons.
Sometimes
Demon
Feels
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
Romantic Love
Soon Enough
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.
Honesty
Long
Normal
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.
Beautiful
Children
Fun
If There's Any Message To My Work, It Is Ultimately That It's Ok To Be Different, That It's Good To Be Different, That We Should Question Ourselves Before We Pass Judgment On Someone Who Looks Different, Behaves Different, Talks Different, Is A Different Color.
Inspirational
Color
Being Different
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
Spiritual
Falling In Love
People
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