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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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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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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.

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 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'd Just Thank The People Out There Who Have Been With My Up-and-down, Weird-road, Strange Career And Supported Me And Stuck With Me All These Years. I Mean, They're My Boss. That's What Keeps Me Working.

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."

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?

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.

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.

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

Inspirational Celebrity

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

If You Fall In Love With 2 People At Once Choose The Second One Because If You Truly Loved The First One You Never Would Have Fell In Love With The Second One

Falling In Love

When I See Someone Who Just Follows Their Dream And Succeeds, And Just Does Basically What They Want To Do And Doesn't Have To Answer To Anyone, Obviously Not Harming Anyone, That's Great.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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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