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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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With A Character Like A Captain Jack, Who Can Essentially Set Up These Verbal Land Mines Around Him, And Just Keep Passing The "absurdity Ball" Around And The "irreverence Ball" Around, And Keep People Guessing And Keep People Confused, There's Great Safety In That. Me, Myself, Personally, I Learn From It. It's A Real Pleasure, And I Do Need Him.

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I Hope Some Day To Make You All A Cup Of Coffee. Alright, Peace.

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My Kids, They're My Energy, My Soul, And My Nicest Friend.

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.

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I Can't Stand Not Being Able To Joke Around On Set, So I Have To.

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[the Huge Success Of Curse Of The Black Pearl] Made Perfect Sense To Me On The One Hand, And At The Same Time, It Made No Sense At All, Which I Kind Of Enjoyed. Even Now, With The Dolls And The Cereal Boxes And Snacks And Fruit Juices, It All Just Feels Fun To Me, In A Warholian Way. It's Absurd. It Doesn't Get More Absurd.

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.

Any Character That You Come Up With Or Create Is A Piece Of You. You're Putting Yourself Into That Character, But There's The Guise Of The Character. So There's A Certain Amount Of Safety In The Character, Where You Feel More Safe Being The Character Than You Do Being Just You

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.

America Is Dumb, It's Like A Dumb Puppy That Has Big Teeth That Can Bite And Hurt You, Aggressive.

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.

After Having Been Confined To A Television Series - And It's A Luxury Job - Where You Can't Play Anything But One Particular Character For Nine Months Out Of The Year, It Will Make You Insane. It Didn't Affect Me. I Got Out Quick Enough.

The Quality Of Life Is So Different In France. There Is The Possibility Of Living A Simple Life. I Would Never Contemplate Raising My Daughter In La. I Would Never Raise Any Child There.

There Are These Mythic Unicorn-y Tales Of Method Acting, But Marlon [brando] Wanted To Have A Good Time.

Do What You Really Want To Do. Don't Play Their Game! Don't Do What They Want. Find Your Own Way.

[jack Sparrow]'s A Blast To Play. I'll Be In A Deep, Dark Depression Saying Goodbye To Him. I'll Keep The Costume And Just Prance Around The House, Entertain The Kids....i Mean, At A Certain Point, The Madness Must Stop, But For The Moment, I Can't Say That He's Done.

It's Impossible To Consider Myself A Producer. I Can Barely Produce An English Muffin, In The Morning.

You Do The Work And You Want People To See It; But, Um While I'm Doing The Work, The Result Doesn't Matter At All To Me. Ultimately, I Don't, I Don't Care Whether The Film Is - You Know - Some Big Giant Box-office Bonanza And I Don't Care If Its A Complete Flop. To Me, When A Film Gets Made And It's Actually Finished It's A Success. They're All A Success In Their Own Way.

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

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.

France And The Whole Of Europe Have A Great Culture And An Amazing History. Most Important Thing, Though, Is That People There Know How To Live! In America They've Forgotten All About It. I'm Afraid That The American Culture Is A Disaster.

There's A Drive In Me That Won't Allow Me To Do Certain Things That Are Easy.

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.

I'm All For Whatever It Takes To Get Wherever You Need To Get With A Character, As Long As You Don't Wipe It On Me.

I Just Watched Cartoons For Three Years, And That Had A Strong Affect On Me.

Better To Not Know Which Moment May Be Your Last. Every Morsel Of Your Entire Being Alive To The Infinite Mystery Of It All.

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.

I Do Believe That You Have To Bring Some Degree Of Truth From Yourself To The Role [sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street ]in And I'll Admit It Here, I Have Shaved A Grown Man Before. I Have Done It. And It Wasn't Tim [burton].

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

People Will Say A Movie Bombed At The Box Office But I Couldn't Care Less.

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.

I'm Shy, Paranoid, Whatever Word You Want To Use. I Hate Fame. I've Done Everything I Can To Avoid It.

You Gotta Be Careful: Don't Say A Word To Nobody About Nothing Anytime Ever.

It's Important To Keep Challenging Myself And Try To Come Up With Some New Face Every Now And Again.

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

I Try To Stay In A Constant State Of Confusion Just Because Of The Expression It Leaves On My Face.

If There's A Message To Pass To People, I'd Say That It's Normal To Be Different From Others, It's Good To Differ From One Another, And We'd Better Look At Ourselves First Before We Start Criticising Someone Who Looks, Acts, Speaks Different Or Has A Different Skin Colour. I'd Like To Continue, Even At A Minimal Level, What John Lennon Had Started. If I Could Do As Much As A Bit Of What He Did, If I Could Contribute To The Elimination Of Hatred Among Us, That Would Be A Great Deal.

I Think, For Me As An Actor, If You Get To A Place Where You're Satisfied, You're Happy With It, Then You're Dead. It's Over. You're Not Hungry Anymore. You Won't Try Things Anymore.

I Actually Did Do A Musical Many Years Ago With John Waters Called Cry-baby, But Technically It Was Only Half Me - It Wasn't Me Singing. Tim's [ Burton] The Only Person Brave Enough To Actually Let Me Try To Sing.

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

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