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" I try not to be proud. I try to actively attack pride. "

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" I've always maintained that I see myself as a student. There's always something to learn and be challenged by and hopefully grow from. "

" As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious. "

" I think it's no secret that I've tried to take chances in my career and also in my life, and I believe to not live in fear. "

" Children, to me, are of the utmost importance. They're really the future, aren't they? "

" Look, I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters. "

" I wanted to make an image for myself as an outlaw type. A kind of rock 'n' roll sensibility. "

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" Mike Myers as Austin Powers makes me laugh - that was genius - and Daffy Duck makes me laugh, but I like odd behavior. I don't like hip dialogue and one-liners and all that sort of cool, sophomoric comedy. It's just not for me. "

" Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island. "

" I never studied dance, but if you look at 'Wild At Heart,' my mother saw that movie and said, 'You are a dancer. Look at how you're moving: all that strange energy is like modern dance.' "

" I'm at the point now where I know I'm doing something right when a movie gets mixed reviews, because then I'm not in the box. I don't want to make it too easy for people and I don't want to make it too easy for myself. I want to try something unusual. "

" Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of root in the abstract. "

" I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies. "

" Most of my favourite moments in film have been when I've had an opportunity to say something from scratch, something original, whether I jotted down a few lines or it came out in improvisation. "

" I invite the entire spectrum, shall we call it, of feeling. Because that is my greatest resource as a film actor. I need to be able to feel everything, which is why I refuse to go on any kind of medication. Not that I need to! But my point is, I wouldn't even explore that, because it would get in the way of my instrument. "

" Everything we do impacts someone else's life. "

" I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I celebrate, and I wanted my movies to show that celebration and that honoring of these great film stars that were unafraid to go into horror and Grand Guignol and the macabre. "

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" I want to always find new ways of reinventing myself. "

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" To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new. "