Top 44 Pirates Quotes

Pirates almost never sailed with women. Just four or five are known to have worked as pirates during the Golden Age. Two of them – Mary Read and Anne Bonny – became famous, dressing as men and fighting alongside one of the most celebrated of all pirate captains, ‘Calico’ Jack Rackham.

What happen to the pirates we are supposed to see? Then we go down the chutes, and it’s where the pirates were. But they’re all gone. There is nothing but skeletons down here!

The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.

Pirates, me hearties, are the Patronus of the freelancer.

The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake – they’ve always been there – but the pirates who’ve taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.

I never think about the next movie. I always think about the situation I’m in now, but you do think about an arc someone can go. I love Johnny Depp, I love ‘Pirates of the Caribbean,’ but I never wanted to play the same character over and over again.

I really, really loved Elizabeth and Will from ‘Pirates of the Caribbean.’ I think a lot of people did.

Pirates did not store all their treasures in treasure chests, then bury them and draw maps to them. That’s a movie invention. In reality, pirates spent their money as fast as they could steal it because they knew they were living on borrowed time. They didn’t want to wait around to enjoy the money.

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

I have been interested in pirates since I was about 8 years old. The idea of people deciding, sometimes at a moment’s notice, to throw over the rules and restrictions of society – it was just irresistible.

As soon as you think, ‘Pirates are really popular right now with kids so I’m going to write a pirate movie’… that’s when you’re dead.

To say ‘A High Wind in Jamaica’ is a novel about children who are abducted by pirates is to make it seem like a children’s book. But that’s completely wrong; its theme is actually how heartless children are.

The squiggly rubber Davy Jones face in ‘Pirates’ with the tentacles, barnacles and goobers – that’s modeled on me.

Pirates have always fascinated me.

My major league debut came at old Busch Stadium on Grand Avenue in St. Louis against the Pittsburgh Pirates.

When I finished the trilogy of ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ movies, I had a gear shift and thought, ‘I need to take a moment to smell the roses.’

Taking legal action against pirates is a headache for artists like me.

After I had done the first ‘Pirates’ movie and ‘Secret Window,’ I went on vacation to escape with my kiddies and my girl, and someone said that there was an island down the road for sale. I said, ‘Oh well, let’s go see it.’ I looked at it, I walked on it, and I was done. It had to be.

These pirates are evolving, and we must stay with the curve and evolve with them to stop these incidents from happening.

I’ve always been a huge fan of the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ movies.

My family sits around and tells all these amazing stories of pirates and the wa. Then one day I’m having a beer after shooting an episode of ‘Thank God You’re Here,’ and started telling Dave Hughes some stories, and he said, ‘You’ve gotta turn this into a book.’

I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, ‘Aye-aye, argh and mate.’ But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.

The first ‘Polly and the Pirates’ is about a prim and proper girl who gets kidnapped out of her comfy boarding school by a bunch of pirates that think she’s the daughter of their long lost queen. In the course of the adventure, she discovers she has a natural penchant for swashbuckling, despite her sheltered childhood.

One of my uncles was actually a sapper who cleared land mines for Anzacs, Australian soldiers, and we had to flee Vietnam. There were 40 of us on a 9-meter fishing boat. We were at sea for five days, a very perilous journey. We were attacked by pirates twice.

Robots should stand up for themselves and not try to be humans. They should either utterly destroy us or protect us from aliens. And vampires. And pirates.

Red Sonja, she was a hellraiser before Buffy, Xena, and Ripley even existed. When so many heroines in comics were all hung up on romance and the bizarre gender politics of comics at the time, Sonja was out cutting off the heads of dragons and pirates.

The really disturbing thing about Somalia is that in a country where there are few economic opportunities, pirates are perceived as glamorous and are held in awe by young boys who aspire to their lifestyle.

Pirate was going to be my middle name, but then my uncle had a problem with it because pirates are bad.

I used to own an island in the Seychelles and had a big boat there and one day I came across some Somali pirates who were passing by on their way to re-provision their boat. They didn’t even acknowledge me – which is unheard of among sailors – and it was like looking into the eyes of a black mamba.

Port Royal, Jamaica, was built for pirates. The town had a well-protected harbor, corrupt politicians and townsfolk, and a set of ethics that seemed passed down from Sodom and Gomorrah.

Men want their women to be good little girls who never do anything, while they get to be pirates and do everything. And it never changes.

Parrots have gone a bit quiet since pirates have gone.

For my new book ‘Pirate Hunters’, I follow John Chatterton and John Mattera, two world-class scuba divers, who teach themselves to think and act as pirates while searching for what would be only the second pirate ship ever found and positively identified.

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

Right now we’re working on finishing up Pirates! for the Xbox, we’re developing Civilization IV and we’ve got a couple other games in development that we’ll tell you about soon.

You can’t go wrong with pirates. I mean, they’re pirates. It’s what everyone wants to be when they’re a kid. Ninja, assassin, or a pirate – and now you can kind of be all three.

Prior to ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ – the first one in 2003 – I had been essentially known within the confines of Hollywood as box office poison, you know what I’m saying? You know, I basically had built a career on 20 years of failures.

I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that’s a pretty cool concept.

We’d love to do Pirates for the 21st century. People have also asked about Colonization, and a few others.

I had apprehensions of playing Jobs in ‘Pirates of Silicon Valley.’ TNT was really excited about me taking the part, but I had worries I usually didn’t have as an actor.

It’s great fun that my grandkids get to see the costumes in ‘Alice in Wonderland’ or a doll with grandma’s dress, but then they also let me know they’re bummed I didn’t do any of the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ movies.

I was not big on playing house. I preferred make-believe that revolved around adventure, featuring pirates and knights. I was also domineering, impatient, relentlessly verbal, and, as an only child, often baffled by the mores of other kids.

I never wanted to be a bombshell; I wanted to be an actor. I would much prefer to be a woman than a man, but if I was a dude, maybe I’d have Johnny Depp’s island because women in this industry after a certain age definitely don’t get to do ‘Pirates of the Caribbean.’

Musicians are kind of like pirates, you know? You have to be free to follow whatever your muse is, or wherever life is pulling you – especially if you aren’t in, like, U2, and making millions and millions of dollars.