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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.

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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.

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She's Kind Of A Walking Poem, She's This Perfect Beauty...but At The Same Time Very Deep, Very Smart.

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.

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.

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.

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

Personality Types

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.

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

As Soon As We Fall In Love And We Realise We've Met The One The Rest Of Our Lives Can't Come Soon Enough. It's Not Like You're In A Rush To Get To The Finish Line, You're In A Rush To Feel And Experience Everything And Then Do It All Again.

Falling In Love

Success Doesn't Change You... It Reveals You

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

They (the People Of Puerto Rico) Are Truly The Sweetest People On Earth.

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

One Of The Greatest Pieces Of Advice I've Ever Gotten In My Life Was From My Mom. When I Was A Little Kid There Was A Kid Who Was Bugging Me At School And She Said "okay, I'm Gonna Tell You What To Do. If The Kid's Bugging You And Puts His Hands On You; You Pick Up The Nearest Rock.

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

The Birth Of My Daughter, Gave Me Life.

I Think The Thing To Do Is Enjoy The Ride While You're On It.

Marriage Can Be Whatever You Define It As. For Example, I Don't Feel Like I Need A Piece Of Paper That Says I Own Her And She Owns Me. I Think Signing A Piece Of Paper Doesn't Mean Anything In The Eyes Of God Or In The Eyes Of People. The Thing Is, If You Are Together And You Love Each Other And Are Good To Each Other, Make Babies And All That, For All Intents And Purposes You Are Married.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

It's Absolutely Fine When Wile E. Coyote Walks In With A Band-aid On His Head, After A 3,000-pound Rock Is Dropped On Him. That Is What Ed Wood Meant By The Suspension Of Disbelief.

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.

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.

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.

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'd Worked With Marlon [brando] A Couple Of Times, And He Was A Practical Joker. He Was Far More Interested In Getting Jokes Out Than Getting The Words Out. We Laughed All The Time.

I Think Alice [cooper] Probably, On Some Level, Recognized That Good Old Self-destructive Streak That Does Happen In Some People's Lives. So, Though I Wasn't There With Alice And The Vampires, But I'd Give Anything In The World To Have Been, I Had My Own Version, I Suppose, A Little Later.

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.

I Trust Kids Far More Than I Do Adults. Kids Give You The Honest Opinion. They Tell The Truth.

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.

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