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.

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

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

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.

History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect.

It really reminds me of the great movies of the 30's and 40's with huge sets and voluminous fireplaces you could walk around in. Glazed floors. I was expecting a Busby Berkley dance number. Big fanfare and all the girls coming out. I'd have joined in. It's got that scale, you know?