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Jesus, Music Has Always Been My First Love. I Use Music In My Work Because It's The Fastest Way To An Emotional Place. You Hear A Song, And That Memory Comes Right Back-- You're There... Making Music Is Immediate, And It's All About You. If You're Playing Guitar, The Feeling Comes Through-- The Way You Bend The Note, The Intensity With Which You Hit The Strings. With Making Films, Although It's Real Emotion, It's False Emotion. You're Lying.

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Jesus, Music Has Always Been My First Love. I Use Music In My Work Because It's The Fastest Way To An Emotional Place. You Hear A Song, And That Memory Comes Right Back-- You're There... Making Music Is Immediate, And It's All About You. If You're Playing Guitar, The Feeling Comes Through-- The Way You Bend The Note, The Intensity With Which You Hit The Strings. With Making Films, Although It's Real Emotion, It's False Emotion. You're Lying.

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Inspirational Celebrity

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With A Character Like A Captain Jack, Who Can Essentially Set Up These Verbal Land Mines Around Him, And Just Keep Passing The "absurdity Ball" Around And The "irreverence Ball" Around, And Keep People Guessing And Keep People Confused, There's Great Safety In That. Me, Myself, Personally, I Learn From It. It's A Real Pleasure, And I Do Need Him.

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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.

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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.

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

My Body Is A Journal In A Way. It's Like What Sailors Used To Do, Where Every Tattoo Meant Something, A Specific Time In Your Life When You Make A Mark On Yourself, Whether You Do It Yourself With A Knife Or With A Professional Tattoo Artist.

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.

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.

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."

Not All Treasure Is Silver And Gold, Mate

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.

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?

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

It's Kind Of Interesting To Experience That Kind Of A Ride After Well, Essentially So Many Years Of Enjoying A Career Based On Failures And Then Suddenly Something Clicks. The Weird Thing Is, I Never Changed A Thing. The Process Is Still The Process As It Ever Was. The Fact That People Decided To Go And See A Movie That I Was In Was Probably The Most Shocking Thing That I've Ever Been Through.

I've Weaned Myself Down To About, On A Great Day, On A Really Great Day, Three Cigarettes. For A Nicotine Junkie The Essential Cigs Are Three: The First-of-the-day Cigarette Smoked After Lunch, The After-dinner Cigarette And Then The One Taken Whenever You Want - The Luxury-wild-card Smoke. It Used To Be Quite A Bit More. It Used To Be, I'd Smoke The Table. I'd Smoke The Patch. I'd Smoke The Gum. So I Feel Good About It.

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.

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.

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.

I'm Scared Of Boogers. If Anyone Ever Showed Me A Booger I'd Smash Their Face In.

Attention Is A Strange Sort Of Being, Anyway, The Idea Of Attention If Someone Appreciates Your Work. It's Always Nice That Someone Appreciates Your Work.

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

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

I Was Never Disappointed By The People I've Admired. And The Choices I Made When I Was In A Position Where It Was Do-or-die Were Made With My Heroes In Mind.

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 Don’t Think Of Myself As Being A Celebrity, It’s Too Mortifying. I Have A Hard Time Watching Myself On Screen And It’s Getting Worse. I Can’t Tell Whether My Work Is Good Or Not.

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.

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.

You Can Go Out And Try To Do The Best Work That You Can Do Within The Context Of What That Is, But It's Really Gotta Be About The Work And What You're Focusing On.

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.

Yeah, In Every Film That I've Been Lucky Enough To Do With Tim, There's Always Some Form Of Torture, And The Nails Were Tim's Idea. They Were The Length Of The Fingers And Stuff, But It Was Okay Because I Had A Troop Of People Who Would Help Me Go To The Bathroom. They Had To Have Treatment Afterwards But They're Okay Now. That Is True.

If You Had To Chose One Half Of Your Son, Which One Would It Be?" What Kind Of A Question Is That?!" No Need To Snap. It Was Just A Question.

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?

And It Hurts So Much To Want Something You Can't Have.

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

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.

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