QUOTES "Anything I've done up till 27 May 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life." "You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal". "I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do." "One of the most incredible moments I've ever had was sitting in Vincent's [Price] trailer... I was showing him this first-edition book I have of the complete works of Poe--with really amazing illustrations. Vincent was going nuts over the drawings, and he started talking about The Tomb of Ligeia. Then he closed the book and began to recite it to me in this beautiful voice, filling the room with huge sounds. Such passion! I looked in the book later, and it was verbatim. Word perfect. It was a great moment. I'll never forget that." "The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants." "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." "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." "Taken in context, what I was saying was that, compared to Europe, America is a very young country and we are still growing as a nation. It is a shame that the metaphor I used was taken so radically out of context and slung about irresponsibly by the news media. There was no anti-American sentiment. In fact, it was just the opposite. 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." "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." "Captain Jack Sparrow is like a cross between Keith Richards and Pepe Le Pew." "I can remember when I finished Edward Scissorhands, looking in the mirror as the girl was doing my make-up for the last time and thinking, it was like the 90th or 89th day of shooting and I remember looking and going 'Wow, this is it. I'm saying goodbye to this guy, I'm saying goodbye to Edward Scissorhands.' You know, it was kind of sad. But in fact, I think they're all still somehow in there." "The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing." "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 don't know, maybe I just read too much Dr. Seuss as a kid." [When asked by James Lipton on "Inside The Actor's Studio" what attracts him to funny hats] "Am I a romantic? I've seen Wuthering Heights ten times. I'm a romantic." "Perfect teeth drive me up the wall!" "There's no stop and start to the career game. It's crazy to take any of it seriously. In 10 or 15 years, who knows, I might go south. Instead of acting, maybe I'd rather sit at home and be daddy and make paintings with my daughter." "Even if I tried to avoid the certain emotions that live inside me, I wouldn't be able to do so. I have a family now, and I'll do anything I can to make life good. So if all this should evaporate, and I had to go back to pumping gas, I'd do it. That would be OK, as long as my family was there for me, and I for them." "I don't give a damn about what is written. That's a great feeling."