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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.

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The Funny Thing Is

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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.

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Native American

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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 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.

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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.

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?

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.

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

Inspirational Celebrity

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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 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.

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.

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

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 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'm Not A Great Pothead Or Anything Like That... But Weed Is Much, Much Less Dangerous Than Alcohol.

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

If Someone Were To Harm My Family Or A Friend Or Somebody I Love, I Would Eat Them. I Might End Up In Jail For 500 Years, But I Would Eat Them.

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.

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.

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 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.

This Dress Code Should Be Mandatory For Most Events.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Looking Forward

With Every Character You Play, As These Guys Will Tell You, There's A Part Of You Goes Into That In Terms Of The Ingredients Of Making This Stew. There's Most Definitely A Part Of Me In Captain Jack And Now, Fortunately Or Unfortunately, There's A Great Part Of Captain Jack In Me As Well. Basically, I Can't Shake Him. He Won't Leave Me Alone. He Just Sort Of Keeps Showing Up At Odd Times.

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

I'm Not Blockbuster Boy.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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