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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.

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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.

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

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I Don't Know If You Remember Me, But I Used To Work Here In The Factory." Were You One Of Those Despicable Spies Who Every Day Tried To Steal My Life's Work And Sell It To Those Paraseeded Cop Cat, Candy Making Cads?" No Sir!" Then Wonderful, Welcome Back!

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

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.

The Killing Of Everyone Was The Easy Part, The Most Difficult Part Was Lathering Them Up And Shaving Them, That's The Part That Freaked Me Out The Most.

Marlon Brando Was The Absolute Opposite Of Everything They Told Me He Was Going To Be, Which Is That He Was A Testy Guy Who Wants To Know That He's In Control Of Everything. But, That's Not Who Marlon Was. No Matter What He Did, The Most Important Thing On His Mind Was Justice.

The Only Gossip I'm Interested In Is Things From The Weekly World News - 'woman's Bra Bursts, 11 Injured'. That Kind Of Thing.

I'm Not Sure I'm Adult Yet.

I Was Always Fascinated By People Who Are Considered Completely Normal, Because I Find Them The Weirdest Of All

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

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

It's Good To Experience Hollywood In Short Bursts, I Guess. Little Snippets. I Don't Think I Can Handle Being Here All The Time, It's Pretty Nutty.

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.

I Always Figured That Once I Wrapped A Film, Then Anything Beyond That Is None Of My Business. If I Can Avoid Seeing The Final Product, Then All I Have In My Head Is Feeling Good About The Experience.

I Literally Went From Being Unable To Play My Rent To Being On A Plane The Next Day, Being Paid Peanuts.

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.

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

One Of The Greatest Things I've Ever Seen Happen Was The Morning I Opened The Newspaper And It Said That Some Very Powerful Government Officials Had Decided To Change The Name Of “french Fries” To “freedoom Fries” And “french Toast” To “freedom Toast”. It Was Impressive. I Wanted To Write A Letter To Them Just To Thank Them, Just For Proving Globally That They Were Absolute Imbeciles.

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.

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

Smooth Sailing Is What I Hope For. No, I'm Okay With No Big Ups, No Big Downs, It's All Right. Just Go Full Steam Ahead, All Things Well And Good, Yeah. I Mean As A Family Man, All You Want Is, As A Dad, Pure Happiness For Your Kids, That's A Universal Parent Thing. Yeah, That's It, That's My Dream, Happy Kids.

Attention Is A Strange Sort Of Being, Anyway, The Idea Of Attention If Someone Appreciates Your Work. It's Always Nice That Someone Appreciates Your Work.

People Cry, Not Because They're Weak. It's Because They've Been Strong For Too Long.

Pretty Much Any Drug You Can Name, I've Done It.

It's Kind Of Interesting To Experience That Kind Of A Ride After Well, Essentially So Many Years Of Enjoying A Career Based On Failures And Then Suddenly Something Clicks. The Weird Thing Is, I Never Changed A Thing. The Process Is Still The Process As It Ever Was. The Fact That People Decided To Go And See A Movie That I Was In Was Probably The Most Shocking Thing That I've Ever Been Through.

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.

My Children's Favorite, And It's Funny Because They've Seen It But They Have A Difficult Time Watching It Because It's Their Dad And They Make That Connection, But Edward Scissorhands Is By Far My Kids' Favorite. They Just Connect With The Character, And They See Their Dad Feeling That Isolation, That Loneliness. He's A Tragic Character, So I Think It's Hard For Them. They Bawl.

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.

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.

I Would Give Everything If I Could Only Keep My Family.

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.

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 Was Never A Cokehead Or Anything Like That. I Always Despised That Drug. I Thought It Was A Waste Of Time, Pointless.

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