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

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

" When my daughter was ill in Great Ormond Street, it was the darkest period of my life. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think, as an actor, it is good to feel the fear of failing miserably. I think you should take that risk. Fear is a necessary ingredient in everything I do. But if I do 'Hamlet,' it will probably be in a small theater on a small stage, and it will have to be very, very soon because I'm getting a little long in the tooth for it. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people. "

" There is nothing on earth that could ever make me want to relive certain years of my life when I was young. "

" I went through various stages in my childhood, as we all do, various stages of obsessions with people and things. And I did. I wanted to be the first white Harlem Globetrotter. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Over the years all these vampire movies have come out and nobody looks like a vampire anymore. "

" I've never felt particularly ambitious or driven, that's for sure, although I like to create stuff, whether it's a little doodle, a drawing, a small painting or a movie or a piece of music, so I suppose I'm driven by that. Everything I've done has felt very natural, and it's happened because it's happened. "

" At my very core, I'm pretty shy. I just happen to have a weird job. "

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

" Things go wrong for me all the time with technology. I'm not familiar enough with it, and I'm too old-school a brain to be able to figure it out. I'm dumb. Anything that I have to attack with my thumbs, for any period of time, makes me feel stupid. So, I try to avoid it, as much as possible, to protect my thumbs. "

" There are times when you see how ridiculous is this life, how ludicrous it is, you know, leaving your house every morning and being followed by paparazzi. "

" There's an innocence to Ozzy Osbourne. He's mingling, but he's somewhat detached. "

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

" Escapism is survival to 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. "

" 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. "

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

" There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be. "

" I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and fascination with things like little children. I think we can keep that, and I think it's important to keep that part of staying young. But I also think it's great fun growing old. "

" 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. "