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" After I had done the first 'Pirates' movie and 'Secret Window,' I went on vacation to escape with my kiddies and my girl, and someone said that there was an island down the road for sale. I said, 'Oh well, let's go see it.' I looked at it, I walked on it, and I was done. It had to be. "
Girl
Down
Vacation
" America is dumb. It's like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you - aggressive. My daughter is four; my boy is one. I'd like them to see America as a toy - a broken toy. Investigate it a little, check it out, get this feeling, and then get out. "
America
Broken
Hurt
" Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic. "
Seen
Ten
Romantic
" Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life. "
Illusion
Me
Living
" As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too. "
Ambition
Thought
Choose
" At 13, I was wearing plain t-shirts. Then I used to steal my mom's clothing. She had all these crushed-velvet shirts with French-cut sleeves. And, like, seersucker bell-bottoms. "
Clothing
She
Mom
" At my very core, I'm pretty shy. I just happen to have a weird job. "
Job
Weird
Shy
" Captain Jack Sparrow is like a cross between Keith Richards and Pepe Le Pew. "
Cross
Sparrow
Pew
" 'Edward Scissorhands' was tough to let go of because I found real safety in allowing myself to be that open, that honest. To explore purity. It was a hard one to walk away from. "
Tough
Walk
Safety
" Escapism is survival to me. "
Escapism
Survival
Me
" Everything is just very, very blurry. I've never had proper vision. "
Never
Just
Vision
" 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. "
Honesty
Long Time
Time
" For me, it's always more difficult and slightly exposing to play something that's close to yourself. I always like to try to hide, just because I can't stand the way I look. "
Yourself
Hide
Look
" 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. "
Amazing
Great
History
" Here's the thing - if Donald Trump is elected president of the United States, in a kind of historical way, it's exciting because we will see the actual last president of the United States. It just won't work after that. "
Kind
See
Way
" How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in. "
Chances
Me
Minute
" 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. "
Happy
Sometimes
Always
" I always wanted to be a character actor rather than the poster boy that they tried to make me 100 years ago. An actor has a degree of responsibility to change for the audience, to give them something new each time, to surprise and not bore them. "
Change
Time
Responsibility
" 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. "
Love
Great
Grateful
" I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled. "
Things
True
Doing
" I detest jokes - when somebody tells me one, I feel my IQ dropping; the brain cells start to disappear. But something is funny when the person delivering the line doesn't know it's funny or doesn't treat it as a joke. Maybe it comes from a place of truth, or it's a sort of rage against society. "
Brain
Society
Me
" I did do a film that I refer to as 'The Unpronounceable' by a guy named Yvan Attal with Charlotte Gainsbourg. I had a bit part in there. That was quite fun, doing scenes in French. "
Guy
Did
Fun
" I don't go anywhere without a book by James Joyce called 'Finnegan's Wake.' "
Anywhere
James
Wake
" I don't know if I can relax. Relax, I can't do. My brain, on idle, is a bad thing. I just get weird. I mean, not weird. I get, I get antsy. "
Bad
Brain
Relax
" I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do. "
Weird
Pretend
Captain
" I don't think it's anything you ever get used to... for many years, I could never sort of put my name in the same sort of category as the word 'famous' or anything like that. And I just found it very uncomfortable... if you get used to it, then something must be wrong. "
Famous
Uncomfortable
You
" I don't want to run around and look at a shot through a monitor. That doesn't improve what I'm trying to do. I figure, once I've done my job, it's none of my business. "
Trying
Run
Business
" I do realise and understand very well on a profound level how lucky I am and what a privileged position it is and what it's done ultimately for me, my family and my kids. But at the same time, there are moments in a man's life when you just kind of want to feel somewhat normal. "
Life
Man
Moments
" I'd rather fight a buzzsaw than dance. "
Fight
Dance
Than
" If someone is being bullied or feels like an outsider, and they relate to something that I've done, even if it's just igniting a spark, that's great. I had that feeling as a kid. I was messed with no end. "
Feeling
Great
Kid
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