I’m not even born yet. I’m still trying. I’m still pushing. I don’t ever want to get to a place where I feel satisfied.

I think everybody’s nuts.

My daughter was asked by a little old lady in a London hotel restaurant what her daddy did. She answered, “He’s a pirate” – I was very proud of that answer.

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.

There’s no truth anymore.

What attracted me to Jimmy Bulger were the various facets of his personality and his humanity because I felt that the only way I could approach playing a character like him was to find his human side first and then map that out to see where it took the turn. He was a very complicated man.

Me and music. Music was always my first love. It was my first love for sure. And still is a huge part of my life.

It’s such a funny thing when you see your daughter transitioning from your baby, your little girl, to suddenly being a young woman. If you’re not really looking for it, you can miss it, and Lily-Rose is on that road already, and there’s nothing I can do to stop it.

And it hurts so much to want something you can’t have.

I started out as a guitarist in the early ’80s.

Breathe. It’s only a bad day, not a bad life.

Simplicity – that’s what I want. It’s been a rare commodity for me for a number of years, but I enjoy being able to hang out with my girl, read the newspaper, and sit back and start to read a book by someone I admire, like Lawrence Krauss or Christopher Hitchens. And that’s it – simplicity, where the game of Hollywood doesn’t exist.

I’d rather fight a buzzsaw than dance.

Music is still part of my life, but I hate the idea of people coming to see me play the guitar because they’ve seen me in movies. You want people who are listening to be only interested in the music.

Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate.

I’m not sure I’m adult yet.

If you’re going to be a writer, just write.

I don’t think anybody’s necessarily ready for death. You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you’ve said what you wanted to say. Nobody wants to go out in mid-sentence.

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

When you disrespect Australian law, they will tell your firmly. Declare everything when you enter Australia.

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.

There’s a fine line between a dream and a fantasy.

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.

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 judgement on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.

I think it’s an actor’s responsibility to change every time. Not only for himself and the people he’s working with, but for the audience. If you just go out and deliver the same dish every time, it’s meat loaf again, you’d get bored. I’d get bored.

Now, bring me that horizon.

I love playing characters that are a little eccentric.

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

Everything is just very, very blurry. I’ve never had proper vision.

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

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.

It’s like a dream come true to be able to do something you love for a living.

Success doesn’t change you, it reveals you.

Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.

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

Escapism is survival to me.

I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

My body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story.

Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can’t.

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

I don’t pretend to be something I’m not.

There are four questions of value in life… What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

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

My favorite color is black.

You can close your eyes to the things you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your heart to the things you don’t want to feel.

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

If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.

One day the people that didn’t believe in you will tell everyone how they met you.

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.

Just keep moving forward and don’t give a shit about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you.