" you use your money to buy privacy because during mosr of your life you weren't allowed to be normal." - on the money he makes
" I dont pretend to be captain weird. I just do what i do"
" One of the most incredible moments I've ever had was sittin in Vincent [Price]'s trailer...I was showing him the 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 bok and bean to recite it to me in this beautiful voice, filling th eroom 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 when they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women 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, agressive. My daughter if 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. Its a shame that the metaphor I used was taking so radically out of context and slung about irresponsibly by the news media. There was so 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 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 greatful."
"France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is the people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraif 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 Scissor Hands' You know, it was kind of sad. But in fact I think they're all still somehow in there."
"With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting, its lying."
"The only gossip I'm interesting in is things from the Weekly World News- ' Woman's bra burts, 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."
[When asked what attracts him to funny hats] " I don't know, maube I just read too much Dr. Suess as a kid"
[Asked if he is a romantic] "Am I a romantic? I've seen Wuthering Heights ten times. I'm a romantic."
