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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.

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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.

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Having Been Familiar With "drunk" Once Or Twice Myself, That Lick Just Came To Me - And Yeah, It Sounded Very Drunk, So I Presented It To Alice [cooper]. It Felt Like He Wrote The Lyrics In About A Minute.

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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.

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I've Always Been Frightened Of Karaoke, So I've Never Tried It. Karaoke Scares The Hell Out Of Me!

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

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.

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.

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 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.

There Is Nothing On Earth That Could Ever Make Me Want To Relive Certain Years Of My Life When I Was Young.

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.

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

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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.

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 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.

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

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[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.

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In Terms Of It Being A First Screenplay, Literally, My Hat Is Off To Him [wally Pfister]. I Didn't See Any Virgin Blather In Screen Direction, Or Anything Like That. It Was Just A Wonderfully Executed Piece, And A Complicated One. The Mathematics Involved In Putting This Film Together, Between Jack And Wally, And The Great Support Of Alcon, It Was Not A Easy Little Operetta.

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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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.

When You Had The Fangs In, You Wanted To Be A Little Bit Careful That You Didn't Actually Pierce The Jugular, Kind Of Like My Experience Shaving Alan Rickman, Which By The Way Neither Of Us Want To Do Again, Especially Alan.

It Really Depends On What The Screenplay Is Asking Of You, And What Your Responsibility Is To That Character. You Have The Author's Intent To Deal With, You Have The Filmmaker's Vision, And Then You Have Your Own Wants, Desires And Needs For The Character. It's Collaborative. But I Knew, Right Off The Bat, That There Was No Way To Go Into Some Sort Of Pink-haired, Clown-nosed Character With Ronald Mcdonald Shoes.

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

I Actually Tell Lies For A Living. Exactly. I Mean, That's What Acting Is, Really.

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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.

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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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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 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.

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!

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.

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.

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?

Religion Is A Fascinating Black Hole To Me.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Laugh As Much As You Breathe And Love As Long As You Live.

This Is A Rumour-filled Society And If People Want To Sit Around And Talk About Whom I've Dated, Then I'd Say They Have A Lot Of Spare Time And Should Consider Other Topics... Or Masturbation.

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

Personality Types

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.

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

We Don't Always Cry Because We Are Weak, Sometimes We Cry Because We Have Been Strong, Brave And Courageous For Way Too Long.

I Was Ecstatic They Re-named 'french Fries' As 'freedom Fries'. Grown Men And Women In Positions Of Power In The U.s. Government Showing Themselves As Idiots.

Position Of Power

I Would Give Everything If I Could Only Keep My Family.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

They Tell You To Be Careful Because Maybe You Don't Want To Meet Your Heroes. I've Met Pretty Much Every One, And I've Never Been Let Down.

My Body Is My Journal, And My Tattoos Are My Story.

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

I'm Not Blockbuster Boy.

The Idea Of Directing A Film Is A Strange One For Me. I Feel Anti-mathematical, In A Way, In That Sense. I Don't Like When Things Make Sense. I Prefer If They Don't.

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

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

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.

You Can Close Your Eyes To The Things You Don't Want To See, But You Can't Close Your Heart To The Things You Don't Want To Feel.

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

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

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

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.

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 Do Believe That You Have To Bring Some Degree Of Truth From Yourself To The Role [sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street ]in And I'll Admit It Here, I Have Shaved A Grown Man Before. I Have Done It. And It Wasn't Tim [burton].

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I Can't Tell My Self That I'm A Serious Actor. But I'm Serious Person.

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.

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.

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

You Do A Movie, Depending On The Character, There's Some Degree Of Makeup Involved, Especially When You're Playing A Vampire And You're All White And Kind Of Dead. Sleeves, Regarding Costumes, There Are Generally Sleeves, Which I Appreciate. I Think We All Do.

Puberty Was Very Vague. I Literally Locked Myself In A Room And Played Guitar.

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

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.

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

I Like The Challenge Of Trying Different Things And Wondering Whether It's Going To Work Or Whether I'm Going To Fall Flat On My Face.

Trying Different Things

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

This Dress Code Should Be Mandatory For Most Events.

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

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

I Know Exactly What I Want. Everything. Calm, Peace, Tranquility, Freedom, Fun, Happiness. If I Could Make All That One Word, I Would - A Many-syllabled Word.

I Certainly Had This Fascination With Monsters And Vampires As Did Tim And Whatever This Darkness, This Mystery, This Intrigue. And Then, As You Get Older, You Recognize The Erotic Nature Of The Vampire And The Idea Of The Undead.

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

I Don't Like Watching Myself In The Movies Because I Don't Like Being Aware Of The Product. I Like The Process. I Enjoy That.

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

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.

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

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 Idea Of Dancing Is The Only Thing That Scares Me.

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

I Still Love The Layers Of Cinema Whether It's 35mm Or 16mm Or 8mm, Super 8 Which I Love. I Love The Grain. If I Had My Druthers I'd Film Everything In Kodachrome.

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.

Growing Old Is Unavoidable, But Never Growing Up Is Possible. I Believe You Can Retain Certain Things From Your Childhood If You Protect Them - Certain Traits, Certain Places Where You Don’t Let The World Go.

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.

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.

Being Different

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.

What Happens To Me When I Read A Script, When Something Grabs Hold Of Me, I Start Getting These Flashes Of People Or Places Or Things Or Images.

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.

I Realized That It Was Great To Have A Job, But It Didn't Have Anything Remotely To Do With What I Was Striving For, So Why Was I Doing It?

There's A Drive In Me That Won't Allow Me To Do Certain Things That Are Easy.

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.

You Never Think You're On The Verge Of Disaster While You're Looking Over The Edge Yourself. It's Your Friends And Family Who Are Trying To Get You To Stop Destroying Yourself And After A While It Kind Of Sank In And I Just Cleaned Up My Act.

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.

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

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Not Being Well-versed In That Arena Myself, It's A Little Bit Frightening Because I'm Not Very Good In Those Situations With Lots Of People And Lots Of Famous People And Cameras And All Of That. It's Not My Specialty.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

Life's Pretty Good, And Why Wouldn't It Be? I'm A Pirate, After All.

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.

When I Was A Kid, We Watched The Vietnam War On The Six O'clock News, And It Was Desensitizing. You Felt You Were Watching A War Film; Meanwhile You Were Really Watching These Guys Getting Blown To Bits. Parents Need To Protect Their Kids From Watching That Stuff.

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

I Try To Stay In A Constant State Of Confusion Just Because Of The Expression It Leaves On My Face.

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

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

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.

Marlon [brando] Showed Me That You Could Do The Work And Not Have To Shut Yourself Off From People Or Your Family.

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