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" I started out as a guitarist in the early '80s. "

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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. "

" Music is still part of my life, but I hate the idea of people coming to see me play the guitar because they've seen me in movies. You want people who are listening to be only interested in the music. "

" I'm not Blockbuster Boy. "

" Escapism is survival to me. "

" What attracted me to Jimmy Bulger were the various facets of his personality and his humanity because I felt that the only way I could approach playing a character like him was to find his human side first and then map that out to see where it took the turn. He was a very complicated man. "

" 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. "

" When you have children, there is no room for lies, no room for anything but the truth. Anything other than that is a bad example, I believe. "

" Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic. "

" When I played Tonto in 'The Lone Ranger' and was playing the older Tonto, I would just leave the makeup on and go to sleep because it was a four or five hour job; it was, from the waist up, all over me. "

" I moved from Kentucky to Miramar, Florida, at about 8. I think I was in second grade. I still had my Southern accent, and down there, you got to experience a melting pot in full fury. All the kids I hung out with were, like, Sicilian kids from Jersey and New York. "

" I'll take photographs with kids. People who want to take photographs with me. People who like the movies. People who supported me. I'll do that all day, all night, that's fine. But the bombardment of the paparazzi is just... I truly don't understand. It just feels like this kind of gluttonous, horrific sport. It's like sport. "

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

" There's always that moment on every movie where you just go, 'Okay, this is that moment. I'm about to potentially fall flat on my face, and I might as well just dive in and see what happens.' "

" 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. "

" I'd rather fight a buzzsaw than dance. "

" 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. "

" When I can focus on something like guitar or painting, I do. I started painting people I admire, like Kerouac, Bob Dylan, Nelson Algren, Marlon Brando, Patti Smith, my girl, my kids. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" There's a drive in me that won't allow me to do certain things that are easy. "

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

" My favorite color is black. "

" I think everybody's nuts. "

" I hate watching myself on screen. I can't stand it. "

" I started out printing silk screen t-shirts. I sold ink pens. I worked construction. I worked at a gas station. I pumped gas. I was a mechanic for a little bit. I went into sewers, down into sewer lines. I had a lot of somewhat unpleasant gigs for a time there. "

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

" I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face. "

" Wes Craven was the guy who gave me my start, from my perspective, for almost no reason in particular. "