“It’s awful bad luck to bring a woman aboard the ship. It’s awful worse luck not to.”

It’s funny because what happens to me when I read a script, when something grabs hold of me, I start getting these flashes of people or places or things or images.

I would give everything if I could only keep my family.

Life’s pretty good, and why wouldnt it be? I’m a pirate, after all.

The problem is that everybody treats teenagers like they’re stupid.

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.

My favorite color is black.

If you love two people at the same time, choose the second one, because if you really loved the first, you wouldn’t have fallen for the second.

If they let me choose between you and the dog, I’ll choose the dog.

People cry not because they’re weak, it’s because they’ve been strong for too long.

Crazy people don’t know they’re crazy. I know I’m crazy, therefore I am not crazy. Isn’t that crazy?

Simplicity, that’s what I want. It’s been a rare commodity for me for a number of years.

We’re all damaged in our own way. Nobody’s perfect. I think we’re all somewhat screwy. Every single one of us.

The only responsibility I feel is to deliver something that’s new or at least to attempt that. The real responsibility is to entertain and to try and make people laugh.

One of the greatest pieces of advice I’ve ever gotten in my life was from my mom.

Me, I’m dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it’s the honest ones you have to watch out for.

Better to not know which moment may be your last. Every morsel of your entire being alive to the infinite mystery of it all.