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

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

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

When you're wearing jeans there's a shift in your center of gravity. A costume like this and a character like this, there's no way to hide. If you try and play him any way sort of modern or normal, you diminish. He's larger than life. He's 150 percent. You've got to go for it all the time. It was just impossible.

When many different voices send you in different directions, you can't listen to your own.

The weird thing is, in America, people were saying, "You're not going to get recognized because all you're going to see is basically your forehead and eyes."

It is a tough business but if you get yourself in a situation like I, you can maintain a career over many years. That, to me, is a successful actor.