Swashbuckling Quotes

Not even my excellent training at Juilliard prepared me for my first movie role, where I played a transsexual who falls in love with a military guy in Soldier`s Girl. Here I was, this 6`3" 190-pound lanky kid from Chickasha, Oklahoma, not knowing how to begin being a woman. So I saw documentaries about transsexuals, I lost twenty-five pounds, and I put on prosthetic boobs and hips to become that character. There were times I`d look in the mirror and wonder `what am I doing to my life here? My dad is going to kill me!` But the reason I went into acting was to be able to play parts as complicated and important as this one. In playing a transsexual, I got the chance to help change people`s perspective about other people and that is a powerful thing. I`m playing a swashbuckling bandit in my next film, but I`ll always be proud of Soldier`s Girl.

(on his character Col. William Travis in The Alamo (2004)) "He`s painted as this big, swashbuckling kind of hero, but Travis didn`t consider himself a hero. For Travis, he always thought a leader was someone who puts on fancy clothes. He finally figures out who he is in his last days."

It wasn`t the greatest script in the world, but not many people can say they`ve played a wicked king in a swashbuckling Arthurian special-effects monster movie.

(on Errol Flynn) He was not an actor of enormous talent -- he would have admitted that himself -- but in all those swashbuckling things he was beautiful.