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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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My recipe for success is chance, basically. Just luck. It's a miracle that people still hire me after some of the stuff I've gotten away with. Honestly!
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I guess I'm attracted to these off beat roles because my life has been a bit abnormal.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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I love to smoke. I wish I had more than two hands so I can hold more cigars...
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My daughter was asked by a little old lady in a London hotel restaurant what her daddy did. She answered, “He’s a pirate” - I was very proud of that answer.
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People will say a movie bombed at the box office but I couldn't care less.
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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.
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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.
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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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I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.
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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.
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I hope some day to make you all a cup of coffee. Alright, peace.
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How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in.
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I actually tell lies for a living. Exactly. I mean, that's what acting is, really.
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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.
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Do what you really want to do. Don't play their game! Don't do what they want. Find your own way.
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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...
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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.
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While they'd be setting up shots, suddenly, there were 17 make-up chicks, just listening to Marlon telling these amazing stories that were probably lies. He was a fascinating individual. I learned a lot from him.
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I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.
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My body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story.