[Pirates] are a victim of their own success. People have identified with pirates in a comic and caricature sense.

When you're wearing jeans, there's a shift in your center of gravity.

I don't think you see a pirate with a parrot on his shoulder, for example. And even with the accents.

If the project piques my interest and scares me a little bit, then it's got me hooked.

The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything.

The best piece of advice Ive ever been given was, Be in the business youre in. Dont just be a satellite around it and expect it to come to you. Be in the business youre in.

Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.

I suppose you just feel on an instinctive level if something is honest.

Nobody wakes up in the morning thinking, 'I'm a bad guy.' They think they're the right guy.

Life itself is pretty funny when you realize how absurd it can be.

Well, I'm not a natural gym person myself, anyway.

Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.

In winter, some voices are like coats.

Sometimes it's important to vote - you know, to make a statement, to make a point; certainly, many of us who were involved in the Nader campaign in 2000 felt that way.

I encourage everyone to know that God has a plan for their life and that God never makes a mistake even though it seems like He is not listening or paying attention sometimes.

Ownership, that's what you give your kids. That's your legacy.

To all my critics, you get paid to be negative.

The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them, they cannot love us.

For me, that's where my spiritual practice comes in. It's come from a lot of people that I've met that have influenced me over the years, and it's remembering those people, what they taught me.