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There's very little admirable about being a pirate. There's very little functional about a pirate. There's very little real about a pirate.

I think that pirates represent every person's ability to get up and leave their current daily situation and go on an adventure, and maybe to see things and do things they've never done before or even dreamed of doing.

I have more respect for somebody who points at his ideal - in this case, the ideal of the pirate - and then becomes something that's more radical, more exciting, more subversive than a pirate could ever be.

I always say, 'I'm not a pirate, I just play one on TV.'

I don't really know much about pirates, or pirate culture. I'd be a contrarian pirate.

I'm not a pirate. I'm an innovator.

Real pirates were better than in movies, more daring and terrifying and cunning than any screenwriter could imagine. They operated during the Golden Age of Piracy, from 1650 to 1720.

Pirate ships were built for stealth and invisibility. They filed no manifests with any agency or government. When they went missing or sunk, nobody went looking for them. They simply disappeared into the ether.

The Pirate is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is Father of the Bride.

Once you discover that real pirates are more interesting than fictional ones, you can't look away.