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

There's a drive in me that won't allow me to do certain things that are easy.

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.

Escapism is survival to me.

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

I'm always for the Indian in the cowboy movie. Always.

My favorite color is black.

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

Captain Jack Sparrow is like a cross between Keith Richards and Pepe Le Pew.

I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do.

If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.

When kids hit one year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.

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.

I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.

I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.

I have this fear of clowns, so I think that if I surround myself with them, it will ward off all evil.

The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

Puberty was very vague. I literally locked myself in a room and played guitar.

Tomorrow it'll all be over, then I'll have to go back to selling pens again.

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.

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.

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.

I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you're on it.