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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.

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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.

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I Had Never Experienced Anything Like The Response I Got From People For Pirates Of The Caribbean, Where You Meet A 75-year-old Woman Who Had Seen Pirates And Somehow Related To The Character, And Then Five Minutes Later You Meet A Six-year-old Who Says, 'oh, You're Captain Jack!' What A Rush. What A Gift. That Was The Challenge With Wonka, Too--to Be, In A Sense, Like Bugs Bunny. I Find It Magical That A Three-year-old Can Be Mesmerized By Bugs, But So Can A 40-year-old Or An 80-year-old. It's A Great Challenge To See If You Can Appeal To That Huge An Age Range.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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There Come A Time, When Good Man Must Wear Mask.

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.

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.

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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.

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I Was Never A Cokehead Or Anything Like That. I Always Despised That Drug. I Thought It Was A Waste Of Time, Pointless.

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.

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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.

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

Even When You're Down And Blue, Just Remember That Someone Out There Loves You, Even If You Don't Know It And Even If You Haven't Yet Met Them. There's Someone Out There Waiting For You, Remember That And Keep Faith. You'll Get There.

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.

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.

You Use Your Money To Buy Privacy Because During Most Of Your Life You Aren't Allowed To Be Normal.

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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.

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?

When I See Someone Who Just Follows Their Dream And Succeeds, And Just Does Basically What They Want To Do And Doesn't Have To Answer To Anyone, Obviously Not Harming Anyone, That's Great.

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.

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

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

A Dishonest Man You Can Always Trust To Be Dishonest.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

America Is Dumb, It's Like A Dumb Puppy That Has Big Teeth That Can Bite And Hurt You, Aggressive. My Daughter Is Four, My Boy Is One. I'd Like Them To See America As A Toy, A Broken Toy. Investigate It A Little, Check It Out, Get This Feeling And Then Get Out.

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.

Any Man Who Had To Carry A Child Would Cave In Around Month Two.

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.

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.

The Idea Of Dancing Is The Only Thing That Scares Me.

I Mean, I Think Everybody Should Probably Approach A Film That It's Another Unwanted Thing. That's Going To Be Seared Onto My Brain For The Rest Of My Life. Thank You For That.

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.

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.

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

The Ultimate For Me Would Be To Do A Feature That Didn't Require Any Narrative Structure.

Narrative Structure

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.

You Always Miss Them [characters You've Played] Once You've Walked Away, But Part Of Them Always Stays With You Too.

I Toyed With The Idea Of What It Might Be Like To Live With Some Species Of Heatstroke That Maybe Didn't Go Away All That Quickly. He's A Pirate, Which Is About Rum, Sodomy And The Lash, Isn't It? So, To Be Able To Keep Things Like That In My Head, When I'm Going To Do A Film For Disney, I'd Been Through The Ringer. That Was Like Infiltrating The Enemy Camp. I Wasn't Able To Stop Smiling.

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.

Trips To The Dentist - I Like To Postpone That Kind Of Thing.

Every Filmmaker's Different, Every Filmmaker Has A Different Approach.

Most People Are Really Nuts And That's Fascinating To Me.

The Wardrobe Guy [of Blow] Was A Genius. He Was So Tapped Into That Period And He Brought Me The Ugliest Things I'd Ever Seen And Then They Were Somehow Beautiful.

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

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.

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

I Hope Some Day To Make You All A Cup Of Coffee. Alright, Peace.

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

[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.

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.

My Daughter Was Asked By A Little Old Lady In A London Hotel Restaurant What Her Daddy Did. She Answered, “he’s A Pirate” - I Was Very Proud Of That Answer.

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.

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.

And Then, 'why Is A Raven Like A Writing Desk?' Those Things Just Became So Important To The Character. You Realize That The More You Read It, If I Read The Book Again Today, I'd Find 100 Other Things That I Missed Last Time. It's A Constantly Changing Book.

If There's A Message To Pass To People, I'd Say That It's Normal To Be Different From Others, It's Good To Differ From One Another, And We'd Better Look At Ourselves First Before We Start Criticising Someone Who Looks, Acts, Speaks Different Or Has A Different Skin Colour. I'd Like To Continue, Even At A Minimal Level, What John Lennon Had Started. If I Could Do As Much As A Bit Of What He Did, If I Could Contribute To The Elimination Of Hatred Among Us, That Would Be A Great Deal.

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.

They (the People Of Puerto Rico) Are Truly The Sweetest People On Earth.

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.

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 Really Loved The Idea Of Playing Opposite Marlon Brando And Being The Crazy One.

When You Play A Character That Exists Or Existed, There's A Stronger Responsibility That You Have. You Owe That Person And Then You Owe The Family, You Owe History, You Owe The Victims, The Victims' Families.

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.

[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 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.

At Last My Arm Is Completee Again Xd

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.

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

Every Relationship Has Problems But When Those Problems Arise You Have To Realise That They Don't Mean Your Relationship Is Broken, It's Just A Little Bent. Bent Things Can Be Fixed And Like So Your Relationship Can Too. The First Step However Is Realising That.

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

For Me, It's Always More Difficult And Slightly Exposing To Play Something That's Close To Yourself. I Always Like To Try To Hide, Just Because I Can't Stand The Way I Look. But, I Think It's Important To Change Every Time And Come Up With Something That's As Interesting As It Can Be, For Your Characters.

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

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.

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.

I Remember In That Red Leisure Suit I Sort Of Felt Like A Pizza Hut Employee, And The White One Was The Ultimate, With The White Turtleneck Collar, That Was The Ultimate In Bad Taste.

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.

As A Child, I Certainly Had A Fascination With Monsters And Vampires.

The Term 'serious Actor' Is Kind Of An Oxymoron, Isn't It? Like 'republican Party' Or 'airplane Food.'

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

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."

I Always Felt Like I Was Meant To Have Been Born In Another Era, Another Time.

Now, Bring Me That Horizon.

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 May Have A Feather Duster Down My Pants.

Alice And I, We'd Met Before, But We Were Able To Kind Of Sit And Chat On The Set Of Dark Shadows, And Talk About Maybe Writing Some Songs Together. We Started Doing That, And Then One Thing Led To Another And It Became This Vampire Project - Because He Was Telling Stories About All Those Days, Which Were Fascinating.

I Love To Smoke. I Wish I Had More Than Two Hands So I Can Hold More Cigars

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.

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.

Obviously, Technology Is Moving And Reshaping Itself, Radically, Every Day. We're All Capable Of Answering That Question Within Ourselves. Would You Do It For The Person That You Love? Would You Be Married To A Hard Drive, Essentially?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Once You Get On The Ship, Everything Is Fine. Once You Get On Land, Everything Is Not So Fine.

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.

And Because Technology Is Moving So Rapidly, Things Become Obsolete Very, Very Quickly. In 15 Years Time, Will Caster Is Probably Going To Be In Some Weird Room In Vegas Where People Are Plugging Quarters Into Him. Who Has A Mini-disc Of A Laser Disc Player? It's Over!

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

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.

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

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.

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.

If Anybody Is Getting Their Ass Handed To Them, It's Not Al [pachino]. It's Coming [toward You]. I'm Psychotic.

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.

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.

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

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

Looking Forward

The Only Gossip I'm Interested In Is Things From The Weekly World News - 'woman's Bra Bursts, 11 Injured'. That Kind Of Thing.

I'm Not Sure I'm Adult Yet.

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

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

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.

I Wasn't Into The Lunchbox And Thermos Ski Slope, And That's Where I Was Going.

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

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.

Am I A Romantic? I've Seen 'wuthering Heights' Ten Times. I'm A Romantic.

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.

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 I Ever Thought Of Directing Again, I Mean - I Don't Know, Even The Idea Of Directing A Film Is A Strange One For Me, Because I Feel Kind Of Anti Mathematics In A Way In That Sense. Anti - I Don't Like When Things Make Sense, I Prefer If They Don't, So If I Made A Film, It Wouldn't Make Any Sense And No One Would See It. So Maybe I'll Just Make Little Films At Home With My Phone, Never To Be Released.

She's Kind Of A Walking Poem, She's This Perfect Beauty...but At The Same Time Very Deep, Very Smart.

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

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

Personality Types

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

The Quality Of Life Is So Different In France. There Is The Possibility Of Living A Simple Life. I Would Never Contemplate Raising My Daughter In La. I Would Never Raise Any Child There.

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.

America Is Dumb, It's Like A Dumb Puppy That Has Big Teeth That Can Bite And Hurt You, Aggressive.

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

Do What You Really Want To Do. Don't Play Their Game! Don't Do What They Want. Find Your Own Way.

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.

One Day, The People That Didn't Believe In You Will Tell Everyone How They Met You.

There Are Guys, The Weekenders, Who Can Go Out And Get Loaded And They're Having Fun And Partying - Which Is A Term I Deplore, Partying - And It's All Recreational And They're Having A Ball. I Never Had That. It Was Never About Recreation. Not. Ever. That Was Never My Motivation. Not Once!

The Weirdest Thing In The World Is To See Some Guy Who Is Just Super Earnest.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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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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.

I've Never Been Particularly Ambitious. I'm Driven By The Moment.

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.

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

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