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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.

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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.

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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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I've Been Lucky Enough To Work With A Make-up Artist, Joel Harlow, Who You Can Throw Anything At. I Said, "joel, I Need To Go To The London Eye With My Children And I Want To Look Like A Roadie From Lynyrd Skynyrd."

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

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.

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If There Is Any Message To My Work, It Is Ultimately That It's Ok To Be Different.

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

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

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 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.

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

With Any Part You Play, There Is A Certain Amount Of Yourself In It. There Has To Be, Otherwise It's Just Not Acting. It's Lying.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

I Started Pulling Gags On Al [pachino]. That Was The Moment I Realized That He Was Absolutely Out Of His Mind. I Mean That He's Certifiably Insane. I Wouldn't Spend A Night In A Room Where He's At.

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.

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.

I'm Not 'blockbuster Boy.' I Never Wanted To Be. I Wasn't Looking For That.

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.

I May Have A Feather Duster Down My Pants.

As A Teenager I Was So Insecure. I Was The Type Of Guy That Never Fitted In Because He Never Dared To Choose. I Was Convinced I Had Absolutely No Talent At All. For Nothing. And That Thought Took Away All My Ambition, Too.

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.

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.

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?

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