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If they let me choose between you and the dog, I'll choose the dog.

School's a weird thing. I'm not sure it works.

Escapism is survival to me.

Puberty was very vague. I literally locked myself in a room and played guitar.

Captain Jack Sparrow is like a cross between Keith Richards and Pepe Le Pew.

I really loved the idea of playing opposite Marlon Brando and being the crazy one.

I don't go anywhere without a book by James Joyce called 'Finnegan's Wake.'

At Last My Arm Is Completee Again XD

There are 4 questions of value in life..

Trips to the dentist - I like to postpone that kind of thing.

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.

I want to be Ruler of the Exumas. I like the sound of it. I want to become Kurtz and live like in 'Lord of the Flies.'

I've always been frightened of karaoke, so I've never tried it. Karaoke scares the hell out of me!

I can't stand not being able to joke around on set, so I have to.

Everything here is edible; even I'm edible. But that, dear children, is cannibalism, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies.

Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for.

The idea of dancing is the only thing that scares me.

An actor shouldn't have to leave the set and go home and write a bunch of stuff for a bunch of other people, the next day. I found it very unpleasant.

I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you're on it.

I'm not 'Blockbuster Boy.' I never wanted to be. I wasn't looking for that ...

For me, ambition has become a dirty word. I prefer hunger. To be hungry- great. To have hopes, dreams- great.

I'm a dumb-ass, and I poisoned myself for years. Now I understand things better.

They (the people of Puerto Rico) are truly the sweetest people on earth.

Kids accept a lot more, and they buy it, because they're free.

I love to smoke. I wish I had more than two hands so I can hold more cigars

It's awful bad luck to bring a woman aboard the ship."
"It's awful worse luck not to.

I have a place that I get to go to in the Bahamas. It's the only place that guarantees total anonymity and freedom.

They're all about where people come from. The only thing important is where somebody's going.

The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.

Pretty much any drug you can name, I've done it.

I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.

This dress code should be mandatory for most events.

When I met people they said, 'You do look like a hobo, but you smell really good.'

On a film, you start to get closer and closer with the people you're working with, and it becomes like this circus act or this travelling family.

I still approach a scene as one would approach a solo. There's nothing set or pat.

Marlon [Brando] showed me that you could do the work and not have to shut yourself off from people or your family.

Once you get on the ship, everything is fine. Once you get on land, everything is not so fine.

I try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.

When you're doing a movie, your body doesn't allow you to get sick until you finish.

We're all damaged in our own way. Nobody's perfect. I think we're all somewhat screwy. Every single one of us.

My beef was with essentially being a product. I didn't want to be a product, so I tried to get fired, but they didn't fire me, which was weird.

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.

Now, bring me that horizon.

I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do.

I don't drink hard liquor anymore, but I sometimes order Lagavulin just for the smell. It's so good. It's unbelievable.

[on buying a private island] Money doesn't buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it.

I always have a decompression period at the end of a film. Sometimes it joyful, because you're just happy to be done. Or it can be melancholy.

Nobody's ever made a film in the history of cinema where they weren't expecting some return on their dough.

If it's called a selfie, why are there people in it?

You always miss them [characters you've played] once you've walked away, but part of them always stays with you too.

There come a time, when good man must wear mask.

It's impossible to consider myself a producer. I can barely produce an English muffin, in the morning.

If you had to chose one half of your son, which one would it be?"
What kind of a question is that?!"
No need to snap. It was just a question.

I've never been particularly ambitious. I'm driven by the moment.

Just keep moving forward and don't give a shit about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you.

My favorite color is black.

Every filmmaker's different, every filmmaker has a different approach.

I think everybody's nuts.

There are these mythic unicorn-y tales of method acting, but Marlon [Brando] wanted to have a good time.

What I love to do is paint people's faces, y'know, their eyes. Because you want to find that emotion, see what's going on behind their eyes.

I have toyed with the idea of playing it straight. But, like I say, I really believe we are all out of our minds at some level.

For the actor, The Lee Strasberg Notes are an indispensable companion.

Success doesn't change you ... It reveals you

I never wanted to be the guy people looked at. I don't think of myself as being a celebrity; it's too mortifying.

Finish-the-fucking-story".
"Music!

I always had an affinity for lizards. I've always felt somewhat close to them. They're reptiles. I find myself feeling somewhat reptilian at times.

I've been told I smell good. I don't look like I smell good.

The challenge for me is still to do something that hasn't been beaten into the movie going consciousness. Otherwise what am I in it for?

People will say a movie bombed at the box office but I couldn't care less.

Better to not know which moment may be your last. Every morsel of your entire being alive to the infinite mystery of it all.

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

Some filmmakers go into a film and it's already shot and cut in their head.

I'm having too much fun today to worry about tomorrow.

All men would be cowards if they only had the courage.

An actor needs to be not remotely anywhere close to in control, and a filmmaker has to be totally in control.

It's a great honor that something that you took part in creating becomes this forever object.

How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in.

Tomorrow it'll all be over, then I'll have to go back to selling pens again.

One day the people that didn't believe in you will tell everyone how they met you.

For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I'm human and I'm normal - well, semi-normal.

One of the most beautiful things in the world is seeing a mommy with her kids. There's nothing more beautiful, nothing more sublime.

I don't like watching myself in the movies because I don't like being aware of the product. I like the process. I enjoy that.

The weirdest thing in the world is to see some guy who is just super earnest.

I just watched cartoons for three years, and that had a strong affect on me.

And it hurts so much to want something you can't have.

I'd rather fight a buzzsaw than dance.

I wasn't into the lunchbox and thermos ski slope, and that's where I was going.

The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.

It's been insane. From Whitey Bulger to the Mad Hatter, you can imagine the schizophrenia.

I trust kids far more than I do adults. Kids give you the honest opinion. They tell the truth.

When you're confined to a TV series, and you have to play one character, it can make you insane. But it didn't affect me. I got out in time.

With Ed Wood, it was this sort of blending of Ronald Reagan, the Tin Man from 'The Wizard of Oz,' and Casey Kasem.

My experience with Sondheim has been nothing but glorious, especially for a guy who doesn't sing.

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.

Sometimes I feel like I'm possessed with a multitude of demons.

Me and music. Music was always my first love. It was my first love for sure. And still is a huge part of my life.

She's kind of a walking poem, she's this perfect beauty ... but at the same time very deep, very smart.

You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.

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 was never a cokehead or anything like that. I always despised that drug. I thought it was a waste of time, pointless.