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 an….

As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors..

Blackbeard was larger than life. He was 6'4" in 1710. He was a colossus, and like a rock star walking into a bar. He was a tremendous commander, a gr….

It does if you put yourself out there being a pirate. It's like if you have an army and your army sit around and not doing anything and living the li….

The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything. That's the genuis of having Ken Branagh here as well. Shakespeare d….

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..

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

I wouldn't ever presume to say that I am a comic book fan..

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

Sometimes, I have lost out on a gig because I was not high enough profile..

It's all about the integrity of their characters. They [Marvel] care so much about the loyalty and integrity of each and every character and all of t….

Really Edward Teach, Blackbeard, was actually tall, so he was literally larger than life and so he knew that and actually the more you read about him….

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

I like bringing little subtle complexities to a character. It's all about the subtext. No one can really describe or fully know another human being, ….

I didn't want people to go out wanting to go tool up against the bad guys (and at impressionable ages). I said, don't shy away from the violence or p….

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

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

I never thought I would get to have my own action figure..

The pamphlets going back to London telling of the violent derring-dos of the Bahamian pirates were the ones that brought infamy to the names of Charl….

I'm Volstag and what you see is what you get. He's a bon vivant lover of life epicurean goodfellow. He's a god, which helps. He's full of life. He re….