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You Could Make An Analogy To A Security Guard Who, Three Weeks Prior, Was Mowing Lawns For A Living. The Second He Puts A Uniform On And That Badge, He's A Man. I Imagine The Majority Of Us Have Felt The Wrath Of The Over-zealous Security Guard Guy. Is There Something Lying Dormant In The Man, That's Waiting To Be Pumped Up With That Kind Of Power? I Don't Know. Does It Reveal Him? I Don't Know. Does It Change Him? I Don't Know.

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You Could Make An Analogy To A Security Guard Who, Three Weeks Prior, Was Mowing Lawns For A Living. The Second He Puts A Uniform On And That Badge, He's A Man. I Imagine The Majority Of Us Have Felt The Wrath Of The Over-zealous Security Guard Guy. Is There Something Lying Dormant In The Man, That's Waiting To Be Pumped Up With That Kind Of Power? I Don't Know. Does It Reveal Him? I Don't Know. Does It Change Him? I Don't Know.

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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.

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

I'd Get Very Nervous And Uncomfortable In Social Situations And The Only Way I Could Feel At All Normal Was, Well, To Drink My Guts Out.

The Weirdest Thing In The World Is To See Some Guy Who Is Just Super Earnest.

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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In Terms Of Playing Like A Straight Leading Man Type Thing, I Feel Like All These Guys Are Kind Of Not Necessarily Leading Men But Straight Kind Of Characters. Even Though They May Seem Bizarre Or Strange, I Feel Like I Think Everybody's Nuts. I Mean, I Really Do. And The Weirdest Thing In The World Is To See Some Guy Who Is Just Super Earnest.

There Are Guys, The Weekenders, Who Can Go Out And Get Loaded And They're Having Fun And Partying - Which Is A Term I Deplore, Partying - And It's All Recreational And They're Having A Ball. I Never Had That. It Was Never About Recreation. Not. Ever. That Was Never My Motivation. Not Once!

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 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.

I Was Definitely Never A Crowd Pleaser.

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

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!

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.

For The Actor, The Lee Strasberg Notes Are An Indispensable Companion.

People Say I Make Strange Choices, But They're Not Strange For Me. My Sickness Is That I'm Fascinated By Human Behavior, By What's Underneath The Surface, By The Worlds Inside People.

Laugh As Much As You Breathe And Love As Long As You Live.

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

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.

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

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I've Played English A Number Of Times, And Used An English Accent A Number Of Times, So It Becomes A Little Bit Of An Obstacle Course To Go, "oh, That's Teetering Into Captain Jack-ville," Or "this Is Teetering Into Chocolat Or Wonka." You've Got To Really Pay Attention To The Places You've Been. But, That's Part Of It. That's The Great Challenge. You May Get It Wrong. There's A Very Good Possibility That You Can Fall Flat On Your Face, But That's A Healthy Thing For An Actor.

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

No One Wants To Go Out Mid-sentence.

I Know Exactly What I Want. Everything. Calm, Peace, Tranquility, Freedom, Fun, Happiness. If I Could Make All That One Word, I Would - A Many-syllabled Word.

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.

And Then, 'why Is A Raven Like A Writing Desk?' Those Things Just Became So Important To The Character. You Realize That The More You Read It, If I Read The Book Again Today, I'd Find 100 Other Things That I Missed Last Time. It's A Constantly Changing Book.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

You Grow Up A Bit Damaged Or Broken Then You Have Some Success But You Don't Know How To Feel Good About The Work You're Doing Or The Life You're Leading.

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.

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.

Tomorrow It'll All Be Over, Then I'll Have To Go Back To Selling Pens Again.

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.

My Experience With Sondheim Has Been Nothing But Glorious, Especially For A Guy Who Doesn't Sing.

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.

It's Funny What [producer Richard Zanuck Said About Even Though You Can't Quite Place When The Book Or The Story Came Into Your Life, And I Do Vaguely Remember Roughly Five Years Old Reading Versions Of Alice In Wonderland, But The Thing Is The Characters. You Always Know The Characters. Everyone Knows The Characters And They're Very Well-defined Characters, Which I Always Thought Was Fascinating. Most People Who Haven't Read The Book Definitely Know The Characters And Reference Them.

Barrie And The Wonderful Characters He Created, Lewis Carroll, Even French Literature, Like Baudelaire Or Over In The States, Poe, You Open Those Books, You Open The Flowers Of Evil And Begin To Read. If It Were Written Today, You'd Be Absolutely Stupefied By The Work. It's This Incredible Period Where The Work Is Timeless, Ageless. So Yeah, I Just Love All Those Guys. It's My Deep Passion In Those Great 19th Century Writers.

I Think When You Are Young, You Are Hoping That This Person Will Be The Right One. The One You Are Going To Be In Love With Forever, But Sometimes You Want That So Much, You Create Something That Isn't Really There.

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.

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.

It's A Great Honor That Something That You Took Part In Creating Becomes This Forever Object.

They Tell You To Be Careful Because Maybe You Don't Want To Meet Your Heroes. I've Met Pretty Much Every One, And I've Never Been Let Down.

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.

Interestingly Enough, For Me, A Character Like Captain Jack, You Feel Like You Could Just Continue. The Possibilities Are Endless And Limitless. There Is Any Possibility Of Madness And Absurdity That Could Commence, So You Feel That, With This Character, You're Never Really Done.

I Was Ecstatic They Re-named 'french Fries' As 'freedom Fries'. Grown Men And Women In Positions Of Power In The U.s. Government Showing Themselves As Idiots.

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