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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.

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Thank God I Never

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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.

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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!

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Better To Not Know Which Moment May Be Your Last. Every Morsel Of Your Entire Being Alive To The Infinite Mystery Of It All.

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

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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.

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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'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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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.

My Self-image It Still Isn't That Alright. No Matter How Famous I Am, No Matter How Many People Go To See My Movies, I Still Have The Idea That I'm That Pale No-hoper That I Used To Be. A Pale No-hoper That Happens To Be A Little Lucky Now. Tomorrow It'll Be All Over, Then I'll Have To Go Back To Selling Pens Again.

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They Say The World Used To Be Bigger. The World's Still The Same--there's Just Less In It.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Not All Treasure Is Silver And Gold, Mate

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.

They’re All About Where People Come From. The Only Thing Important Is Where Somebody’s Going.

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

[on Buying A Private Island] Money Doesn't Buy You Happiness, But It Buys You A Big Enough Yacht To Sail Right Up To It.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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've Always Enjoyed Hiding Behind These Characters. It's A Strange Thing, You're More Comfortable As A Character Than You Are In Life. I Could Stand Up In Front Of, It Doesn't Matter How Many People, As A Character. But If I Had To Do It As Myself And Give A Speech, I Would Be Liquid.

You Can't Plan The Kind Of Deep Love That Results In Children. Fatherhood Was Not A Conscious Decision. It Was Part Of The Wonderful Ride I Was On. All The Math Finally Worked.

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.

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.

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'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.

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

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

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

When I Got The Job, I Was Sure That I Wasn't Going To Get The Job Because Tom Cruise Almost Got The Job.

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

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.

Here I Was Going To Work With Pacino Thinking, "i'm Not Going To Get Lucky Twice. There's No Way. This Guy Is Going To Hand Me My Ass." He Looks Like The Kind Of Guy Who's Going To Hand You Your Ass. It's Al Pacino.

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