Captain Jack Sparrow is like a cross between Keith Richards and Pepe Le Pew.

Thats what a ship is, you know. Its not a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. Thats what a ship needs. But what a ship is. What the Black Pearl really is . . . is freedom.

It's very, very important to me, no matter who the person is, to play that person with the utmost degree of truth that I'm able to bring. But playing a character like Jack Sparrow or Willy Wonka, that requires nothing but a degree of responsibility to the intent of the story - responsibility to the film-maker to deliver the goods.

I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do.

The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem

I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do.