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“I was going through a period when drugs were taking the place of people. Instead of people that I loved and had relationships with, I just took a load of bad drugs and used them to distort my opinion towards the people that I was actually seeing at the time. And so sex was just a hallow, vacuous thing which was made full and three dimensional by the fact that I was taking a huge amount of drugs.”
“I just wish people would learn that, whether they like it or not, I’m gonna be a thorn in their flesh for a very long time yet, so they might as well go out and get some calamine lotion.”
“A lot of girls scream and go, ‘Oh my God!’ and point at me. That’s different - used to be only one girl at a time screaming at me! I don’t really like it.”
“I got sick of my image, that horrible composite monster that was created. I’d read about myself and just cringe. That was part of the reason for the haircut. I thought I’d get people to concentrate on the acting, not the hair.”
“I’ve got everything I need in LA; 50 TV channels, the sun’s outside. I hate the sun, but it’s nice to know it’s there. I rise at 4:30 in the afternoon, in bed by 12, watch films all night. I enjoy it, I absorb culture through my backside.”
“My opinion of art is: if in New York you are unemployed, you are an artist. If you are unemployed in LA, you are an actor. In London, everyone’s unemployed so it doesn’t matter.”
“I went around shooting my mouth off about things because I thought I was the bee’s knees, you know? As one does when one is stupid.”
“It’s about walking the tightrope. It’s about the possibility of everything crumbling, and it’s very much the teenage dream. You’ve actually got very little time to do it, so why not eat it whole? You might as well. You only get one bite of the apple, so you might as well make it a big bite.”
“I got so fascinated with all the bad things that live in the sea that it became like a total paranoia. Now I’m just into dolphins and nice things. I watch endless repeats of Flipper…”
“There’s no point in hating people, it’s a waste of time. I’m more concerned with the symptoms than the person, definitely. It just seems to me that human beings are always willing to settle for second best.”
“If everyone accepts everything in the same quantities, that’s meaningless. But that’s what happens now. People wear clothes very similar to those of their friends. They’re just not thinking.”
“I don’t go out much so I don’t have many friends in LA…apart from the occasional lawyer. I don’t hang about with actors - I don’t like the cliques. If I was a plumber I would see no reason on earth to want to meet loads of other plumbers, so why should it be different in this industry?”
“I just don’t feel like I’m a fully fledged member of the male sex. I’m quite interested in lying back and taking it. And that’s traditionally a female thing, isn’t it?”
“I see myself as a bisexual man who’s never had a homosexual experience.”
“A lot of these new actor/teen stars have very little in the brain department. They like to be manipulated and they seek something as vague as fame, which is ludicrous. I was filming in New York when Jonathan Brandis was there and he’d keep seeing me in places and his nose would go up in the air about four miles which was a hooot. Perfect stuff. Sheer joy. That saved about an hour of insults.”
“I despise stars. They’re fake people. They live in their rich mansions, completely out of touch with reality. They know nothing about real people anymore. They’re just drugged out idiots.”
“They brainwash you, they don’t educate you. They don’t teach you nothing. Everything you learn, you learn yourself. They try and take away your brain. They try to make you look like everybody else. Just one great mass that’s easily controlled. They don’t like individuals, they don’t like people who stick up for themselves. If you have an opinion at an early age in school they get you for it bad. And they tend to be the ones who are most violent.”
“I liked Swans Crossing.”