American Quotes

Glorifying violence is terrible. Simulating sex is nothing - it's something so impersonal really.

Also there is a twist to the story as I'm being haunted and driven crazy, attacked and so on. All I seem to do is run and scream and cry in every scene.

'10' was amazing! I had no career before '10' and then all of a sudden I was able to do pretty much whatever I was able to do in the business.

I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I've always loved horses so it was part of my dream that I was able to fulfill to have horses.

I found my love when I was 17-years-old and my love is one hundred percent honest. We've never had any ugly, rocky things to overcome.

It's really difficult for me. Language, I am sorry that I haven't. I think I just always expected that you learn a word in place of a word and when I discovered how difficult the grammar was and learning that was very discouraging for me.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

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.

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.

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

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

If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor,' I beg you to slap me.

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

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.

The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing.

It's all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It's like you've met your reason to live.

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

I think everybody's nuts.

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

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

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

As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.

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

I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.