I was not into sci-fi, science fiction, at all. I was into some of the old pirate films with Burt Lancaster and stuff. I liked them.

- Mads Mikkelsen

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.

- Will Oldham

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

- Todd Barry

When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.

- Sadie Jones

A century before the concept took hold in America, pirate ships were democracies. Most captains were elected by crew and could be voted out anytime.

- Robert Kurson

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

- Paul Watson

I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad to have done all of that already.

- Orlando Bloom

Until this movie I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad to have done all of that already, and am ready for this phase of my career.

- Orlando Bloom

I have a pirate fetish - I just always thought eye patches were sexy.

- Michelle Branch

If you want to get my attention, wear a pirate outfit.

- Michelle Branch

One of my favourite messages about 'The Pirate Fairy' is that the story is about appreciating your own talents.

- Christina Hendricks

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

- Kim Dotcom

When I was about 5 I think, I desperately wanted to be a pirate and have the hat and everything.

- Keira Knightley

It's not everyday you get to do a pirate movie, you might as well go for it.

- Keira Knightley

Belize is still a pirate haven and is run more or less along the lines established centuries ago by the likes of Captain Morgan, Blackbeard, and Captain Barrow.

- John McAfee

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

- Johnny Depp

Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He's one of those characters for which most of your work is done before you start.

- Ian McShane

How much greater would their contributions to the U.S. economy be if U.S. copyright owners could access foreign markets otherwise dominated by pirate product?

- Howard Berman

Suddenly you're like a pirate, you're 65 years old and you've got an earring.

- Fred Willard

I can tell you as a fact that if you'd asked anyone in Hollywood one year before 'Pirates of the Caribbean' had come out, they'd have told you the pirate movie was a dead genre. And it's not that it's a dead genre. If you make a bad pirate movie, no one will want to see it. If you make a good one, everyone will want to see it.

- Dean Devlin