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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.

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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Thank God I Never Hooked On Anything. I Never Had A Monkey On My Back. I Just Wanted To Self-medicate, To Numb Myself Through Liquor. It's How I Dealt With Life, Reality, Stress, Change, Sadness, Memories. The List Goes On. I Was Really Trying To Feel Nothing.

I Don't Do Well With Modern Films, To Be Honest. Opening Credits, And I'm Just Gone.

I Started Pulling Gags On Al [pachino]. That Was The Moment I Realized That He Was Absolutely Out Of His Mind. I Mean That He's Certifiably Insane. I Wouldn't Spend A Night In A Room Where He's At.

One Thing That's Been A Great, Uplifting Experience Through All This Is, Since The First "pirates" [movie], The People Who've Gone To See The Films, The Audience Members. You Meet People On The Street - Whether They're 5, 25, 65 Or 85 - They've All Had The Same Experience, And They've All Enjoyed It. So That's What Keeps Me Moving Forward In This Crazy Process.

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 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.

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

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 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.

I Don't Pretend To Be Captain Weird. I Just Do What I Do.

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.

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

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 Guess I'm Attracted To These Off Beat Roles Because My Life Has Been A Bit Abnormal. The Only Thing I Have A Problem With Is Being Labeled.

It's Impossible To Consider Myself A Producer. I Can Barely Produce An English Muffin, In The Morning.

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.

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.

The Beauty, The Poetry Of The Fear In Their Eyes. I Didn't Mind Going To Jail For, What, Five, Six Hours? It Was Absolutely Worth It.

It's All Kinds Of These Profound Things Crashing On You When Your Child Arrives Into The World. It's Like You've Met Your Reason To Live.

[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.

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?

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.

There's No Truth Anymore.

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

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.

I Think Kids, In General As An Audience, Are The Way Forward Because They're Not Sort Of Sullied By Intellectual Expectation Or This Or That. It's A Very Pure Kind Of Response To The Work.

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.

This Dress Code Should Be Mandatory For Most Events.

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

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

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