I've read some scripts, but I don't read as many books as I should.

Nuclear arms is pretty scary because that could end the world. I'm more interested in that stuff than I am Bill Clinton. I mean, I think Bill Clinton is a good president.

I play guitar and I love the Beatles and melodic music.

I liked getting the best villain award. I thought that was funny.

I guess what I learned the most was to feel lucky with what I have been able to accomplish and what I have and to feel humble about the people I have been able to work with.

It used to be you did TV or you did film. Now it's like a media blitz.

I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented.

Vampires to me have always been very sexy.

I don't want to just be in the normal kind of teen movie.

You have to feel the bad to be able to feel the good.

That's the danger of having too much success. You lose that magic, that feeling of not being in control, which I feel now, it's too controlled.

You cannot have a happy ending to an unhappy journey.

Awareness is the enemy of sanity, for once you hear the screaming, it never stops.

Tomorrow is a new day if you begin it today.

Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.

It's not like I turn off Marilyn Manson and I'm an everyday guy who goes and has another job and doesn't think about any of this stuff. Marilyn Manson is the most real thing that can come from me.

I enjoy playing real human beings after playing a lot of larger than life characters. I love playing true to life characters and that is what I intend to do for the majority of my career.

We are intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich.

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

He that is strucken blind can not forget the precious treasure of his eyesight lost.

My trademark saying is probably “VAS HAPPENIN?!”