"I think I jump around more when I'm alone."
"Passion is very important to me. If you stop enjoying things, you've got to look at it, because it can lead to all kinds of depressing scenarios."
"Shock is still fun. I won't ever shut the door on it."
"I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green."
"My father was always getting excited about something. It's genetically inside me somewhere."
"It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even."
"As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious."
"I try to do as many stunts as they'll let me do. I think it's important for an audience to feel that the actor's really doing it."
"To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new."
"There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic."
"I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion."
"Hollywood didn't know if I was an actor or a nut or if I was this crazy character I was playing. I had developed an image of being a little bit unusual, different and wild."
"I wanted to make an image for myself as an outlaw type. A kind of rock 'n' roll sensibility."
"I want to make all kinds of movies. I do want to make big movies that are a lot of fun to go to, but I also want to make movies that are going to stimulate some thought and maybe raise some awareness."
"I'm at the point now where I know I'm doing something right when a movie gets mixed reviews, because then I'm not in the box. I don't want to make it too easy for people and I don't want to make it too easy for myself. I want to try something unusual."
"I do like to move and get physical in my movies."
"I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I celebrate, and I wanted my movies to show that celebration and that honoring of these great film stars that were unafraid to go into horror and Grand Guignol and the macabre."
"I would definitely return to Austria. They were all good experiences for me, but definitely Austria because there were some ancient Celtic, sacred sites that were in the forest that were quite beautiful."
"I have eclectic tastes in the movies I want to do."
"I don't want to just do independent movies and I don't want to just do adventure films. I enjoy both, and I think both are cogent."
"I'm the first to admit that I like going to, or my memories at least of going to Clint Eastwood movies or Charles Bronson or James Bond."
"And what I like about it is it makes me happy and I think it makes a lot of people happy to go to the movies and to not think about the problems of the day or the problems of tomorrow or the yesterday and just go on for the ride and have the fun of losing oneself in a fantasy."
"How do you rebel in a family of rebels?"
"If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point."
"I hit the ground running, without a lot of training, so I had to do whatever I could do to survive as a professional, and if that meant being that character 24/7 and acting out, I was going to do that. I lived those characters, I brought them home with me."
