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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.

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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.

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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.

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My Beef Was With Essentially Being A Product. I Didn't Want To Be A Product, So I Tried To Get Fired, But They Didn't Fire Me, Which Was Weird.

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

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.

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.

Somehow You've Been Voted Something For A Magazine, And It's A Complete Mystery To Me. I Wake Up And I Have To Look At That Head When I Brush My Teeth Every Morning, You Know. And It's Weird. And It's Unpleasant At Times.

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

There Are Necessary Evils. Money Is An Important Thing In Terms Of Representing Freedom In Our World. And Now I Have A Daughter To Think About. It's Really The First Time I've Thought About The Future And What It Could Be.

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

With Every Character You Play, As These Guys Will Tell You, There's A Part Of You Goes Into That In Terms Of The Ingredients Of Making This Stew. There's Most Definitely A Part Of Me In Captain Jack And Now, Fortunately Or Unfortunately, There's A Great Part Of Captain Jack In Me As Well. Basically, I Can't Shake Him. He Won't Leave Me Alone. He Just Sort Of Keeps Showing Up At Odd Times.

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.

One Of The Greatest Things I've Ever Seen Happen Was The Morning I Opened The Newspaper And It Said That Some Very Powerful Government Officials Had Decided To Change The Name Of “french Fries” To “freedoom Fries” And “french Toast” To “freedom Toast”. It Was Impressive. I Wanted To Write A Letter To Them Just To Thank Them, Just For Proving Globally That They Were Absolute Imbeciles.

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.

Marlon Brando Was The Absolute Opposite Of Everything They Told Me He Was Going To Be, Which Is That He Was A Testy Guy Who Wants To Know That He's In Control Of Everything. But, That's Not Who Marlon Was. No Matter What He Did, The Most Important Thing On His Mind Was Justice.

I May Have A Feather Duster Down My Pants.

I Have Toyed With The Idea Of Playing It Straight. But, Like I Say, I Really Believe We Are All Out Of Our Minds At Some Level.

I'd Get Very Nervous And Uncomfortable In Social Situations And The Only Way I Could Feel At All Normal Was, Well, To Drink My Guts Out.

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

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.

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.

School's A Weird Thing. I'm Not Sure It Works.

If They Let Me Choose Between You And The Dog, I'll Choose The Dog.

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.

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

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

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

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.

People Say I Make Strange Choices, But They're Not Strange For Me. My Sickness Is That I'm Fascinated By Human Behavior, By What's Underneath The Surface, By The Worlds Inside People.

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.

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

Looking Forward

For The Actor, The Lee Strasberg Notes Are An Indispensable Companion.

I Love The Idea Of Changing My Look. I Think One Owes It To The Audience, To Go Out There And Give Them Something Different Each Time, So As Not To Bore Them To Death.

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.

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

At Last My Arm Is Completee Again Xd

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