Richard Phillips
Richard Phillips

When you think about Dada and the great moments in Modern Art, it's always the sense of when you're not sure that art is most likely to be occurring.

Richard Phillips
Richard Phillips

I have the utmost admiration for makeup artists. It's truly magical what they can accomplish with their materials. The face and the body are really their canvas.

Richard Phillips
Richard Phillips

I don't think a lot of people realized that piracy is out there, and it's not a Disney-esque or Johnny Depp-esque type of thing.

Richard Phillips
Richard Phillips

The Merchant Marines fight piracy all over the world. We fight piracy in the Philippines, the east and west coast of Africa, and the east and west coast of South America.

Richard Phillips
Richard Phillips

Anytime money is your main focus, I think we all come to problems.

Richard Phillips
Richard Phillips

If we strive and continue fighting as best we can, we can overcome a lot of the personal and professional problems that we do have.

Richard Phillips
Richard Phillips

We really owe it to the military for what they do day in and day out that we never even hear about.

Richard Phillips
Richard Phillips

The most desirable and appropriate solution to piracy is for the United States government to provide protection through military escorts and/or militant detachments aboard U.S. vessels.

Richard Phillips
Richard Phillips

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

Richard Phillips
Richard Phillips

I believe it is the responsibility of our government to protect the U.S., including U.S.-flag vessels.

Richard Phillips
Richard Phillips

I'm not a hero. The military is.

Richard Phillips
Richard Phillips

If you can get rid of the emotion and concentrate on the problem, you can solve the problem.

Richard Phillips
Richard Phillips

Being in that other world of media, TV, Hollywood, it's not a real world. For me going back to work, it was a pleasure to get back to the world I knew. That's the real world. That's normal for me.

Richard Phillips
Richard Phillips

I thought the first thing the pirates would do is take me out if they thought an attack was imminent. I really didn't see a good outcome.

Richard Phillips
Richard Phillips

I tell my kids, 'Don't do well in school, and you, too, can end up at sea.'