Johnny Depp Quotes:

There's a drive in me that won't allow me to do certain things that are easy.

Topics: Easy, Certain

There may be something in the fact that when I was a little kid I'd been told growing up that we had some degree of native American blood in us, I always found that a point of pride. So, when it came to cowboys and Indians I most certainly did not want to be John Wayne. I wanted to be one of the Indians.

Topics: Growing Up, Native American, Kids

You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.

Topics: Inspirational, Relationship, Broken Heart, Closed Eyes, Wanted To Be Loved

I love the idea of changing my look. I think one owes it to the audience, to go out there and give them something different each time, so as not to bore them to death.

Topics: Thinking, Giving, Different

I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.

Topics: Inspirational, Being Yourself, Self Esteem, Inspiring Self Esteem, Being Weird

Religion is a fascinating black hole to me.

Topics: Black, Black Hole

If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.

Topics: Love, Family, Jail, Lovely Family, Love Your Family

With every character you play, as these guys will tell you, there's a part of you goes into that in terms of the ingredients of making this stew. There's most definitely a part of me in Captain Jack and now, fortunately or unfortunately, there's a great part of Captain Jack in me as well. Basically, I can't shake him. He won't leave me alone. He just sort of keeps showing up at odd times.

Topics: Character, Guy, Leave Me Alone, Captain Jack

Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.

source: - "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Music, Rock N Roll, Fun Music

I was never disappointed by the people I've admired. And the choices I made when I was in a position where it was do-or-die were made with my heroes in mind.

Topics: Hero, People, Choices

Better to not know which moment may be your last. Every morsel of your entire being alive to the infinite mystery of it all.

Topics: Alive, May, Lasts, Captain Jack

It's kind of interesting to experience that kind of a ride after well, essentially so many years of enjoying a career based on failures and then suddenly something clicks. The weird thing is, I never changed a thing. The process is still the process as it ever was. The fact that people decided to go and see a movie that I was in was probably the most shocking thing that I've ever been through.

Topics: Interesting, People, Kind, Shocking Things

If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.

Topics: Inspirational, Color, Acting, Inspirational Celebrity, Different Looks

Smooth sailing is what I hope for. No, I'm okay with no big ups, no big downs, it's all right. Just go full steam ahead, all things well and good, yeah. I mean as a family man, all you want is, as a dad, pure happiness for your kids, that's a universal parent thing. Yeah, that's it, that's my dream, happy kids.

Topics: Dream, Dad, Mean, Family Man, Smooth Sailing

And it hurts so much to want something you can't have.

Topics: Hurt, Want, It Hurts, Hurt So Much

If I ever thought of directing again, I mean - I don't know, even the idea of directing a film is a strange one for me, because I feel kind of anti mathematics in a way in that sense. Anti - I don't like when things make sense, I prefer if they don't, so if I made a film, it wouldn't make any sense and no one would see it. So maybe I'll just make little films at home with my phone, never to be released.

Topics: Mean, Home, Strange, One For Me

Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for.

Topics: Trust, Men, Watches, Honest Man

Barrie and the wonderful characters he created, Lewis Carroll, even French literature, like Baudelaire or over in the States, Poe, you open those books, you open The Flowers of Evil and begin to read. If it were written today, you'd be absolutely stupefied by the work. It's this incredible period where the work is timeless, ageless. So yeah, I just love all those guys. It's my deep passion in those great 19th century writers.

Topics: Flower, Book, Passion, Baudelaire, Deep Passion

They (the people of Puerto Rico) are truly the sweetest people on earth.

Topics: People, Earth, Puerto Rico, Rico

My children's favorite, and it's funny because they've seen it but they have a difficult time watching it because it's their dad and they make that connection, but Edward Scissorhands is, by far my kids' favorite. They just connect with the character, and they see their dad feeling that isolation, that loneliness. He's a tragic character, so I think it's hard for them. They bawl when they see that.

Topics: Children, Dad, Loneliness, Edward Scissorhands

Thank God I never hooked on anything. I never had a monkey on my back. I just wanted to self-medicate, to numb myself through liquor. It's how I dealt with life, reality, stress, change, sadness, memories. The list goes on. I was really trying to feel nothing.

Topics: Memories, Stress, Sadness, Hooked

There's the whole Mad Hatter's dilemma, it was the amount of mercury that they used in the glue to make the hats. Everything was damaging. So, in terms of the Mad Hatter, looking at it from that perspective of this guy who literally is damaged goods, physically damaged, emotionally a little obtuse, and taking that and deciding that he should be - as opposed to just this hyper, nutty guy - he should explore all sides of the personality at an extreme level.

Topics: Perspective, Mad, Personality, Damaged Goods, Hyper

For the actor, The Lee Strasberg Notes are an indispensable companion.

Topics: Actors, Notes, Companion

I think everybody's nuts.

Topics: Thinking, Nuts

The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Love, Dog, Baby, Man And Dog, I Love My Dog

[on buying a private island] Money doesn't buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it.

Topics: Islands, Buying, Enough, Yacht

I can't tell my self that I'm a serious actor. But I'm serious person.

Topics: Self, Actors, Serious, Serious Person

I'm having too much fun today to worry about tomorrow.

Topics: Fun, Worry, Today, Too Much Fun

My kids, they're my energy, my soul, and my nicest friend.

Topics: Kids, Soul, Energy

I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.

Topics: Problem, Personality Types

Every time I stand in front of mirror, I found my face too ugly, so I thought I have to get the role in some movies which cover my face with make up.

Topics: Mirrors, Roles, Ugly

if you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn't have fallen for the second.

source: - "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Love, Relationship, Pregnancy, Same Love, I Fall In Love

The weirdest thing in the world is to see some guy who is just super earnest.

Topics: Guy, World, Earnest

She's kind of a walking poem, she's this perfect beauty...but at the same time very deep, very smart.

Topics: Smart, Perfect, Kind, Very Smart, Perfect Beauty

The only responsibility I feel is to deliver something that's new or at least to attempt that. The real responsibility is to entertain and to try and make people laugh.

Topics: Real, Responsibility, People

I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.

Topics: Hate, Want, Shy

I was definitely never a crowd pleaser.

Topics: Crowds, Crowd Pleasers, Pleasers

If you don't like seeing pictures of violence towards animals being posted, you need to help stop the violence, not the pictures.

Topics: Animal, Needs, Violence

The funny thing is you oddly don't really say goodbye to all the characters you've played. There's like a chest of drawers in your head that you can always access. They're always around. I'm not sure if that's healthy. But they're all there.

Topics: Goodbye, Character, Funny Things

Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate

Topics: Gold, Treasure, Silver, Caribbean, Captain Jack

I don't like watching myself in the movies because I don't like being aware of the product. I like the process. I enjoy that.

Topics: Process, Enjoy

I don't think anybody's necessarily ready for death. You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you've said what you wanted to say. Nobody wants to go out in mid-sentence.

Topics: Thinking, Want, Like You

I actually did do a musical many years ago with John Waters called Cry-Baby, but technically it was only half me - it wasn't me singing. Tim's [ Burton] the only person brave enough to actually let me try to sing.

Topics: Baby, Years, Water, Cry Baby

I really approached the film as if it was a white big piece of paper and I was going to draw a picture on it. And whether that picture was good or bad, whatever people thought of it, what they could never take away was that it was my picture.

Topics: White, People, Pieces

The killing of everyone was the easy part, the most difficult part was lathering them up and shaving them, that's the part that freaked me out the most in [Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street ].

Topics: Shaving, Demon, Sweeney Todd, Sweeney, Barbers

We would just go out and line up a bunch of cans and shoot with rifles, handguns and at times, submachine guns... When I was a kid it was a controlled atmosphere, we weren't shooting at humans... we were shooting at cans and bottles mostly. I will most certainly take my kids out for target practice.

Topics: Kids, Gun, Practice, Handguns, Target Practice

I do believe that you have to bring some degree of truth from yourself to the role [Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street ]in and I'll admit it here, I have shaved a grown man before. I have done it. And it wasn't Tim [Burton].

Topics: Believe, Men, Degrees, Sweeney Todd, Sweeney

I'd never even sung in the shower, I'm too mortified. But once I got over the initial fear it was kind of enjoyable. Sondheim's melodies and lyrics are a real pleasure to tromp around in, it's really beautiful stuff.

Topics: Beautiful, Real, Stuff, Sondheim

You gotta be careful: don't say a word to nobody about nothing anytime ever.

Topics: Be Careful, Careful

I always felt like I was meant to have been born in another era, another time.

Topics: Time, Eras, Born

If I can avoid the mirror when I brush my teeth in the morning, I will. I find security and safety in the most profound degree of ignorance. If you can just stay ignorant of almost everything you'll be OK. It's fine to stay informed and look at things, but to judge things will bog you down.

Topics: Morning, Ignorance, Mirrors, Bogs

I am an American. I love my country and have great hopes for it. It is for this reason that I speak candidly and sometimes critically about it. I have benefited greatly from the freedom that exists in my country and for this I am eternally grateful.

Topics: Country, Freedom, Grateful

'm a big fan of revenge, I think [Sweeney Todd] it's a story of a man who clearly has obsessions to avenge the horror that happened to him.

Topics: Revenge, Men, Thinking

There come a time, when good man must wear mask.

Topics: Men, Good Man, Mask, Lone Ranger, Lone

For me, it's always more difficult and slightly exposing to play something that's close to yourself. I always like to try to hide, just because I can't stand the way I look. But, I think it's important to change every time and come up with something that's as interesting as it can be, for your characters.

Topics: Character, Thinking, Play

There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be.

Topics: Daughter, Mother, Thinking, Necessary Evil

Things go wrong for me, all the time, with technology. I'm not familiar enough with it, and I'm too old school a brain to be able to figure it out. I'm dumb. Anything that I have to attack with my thumbs, for any period of time, makes me feel stupid. So, I try to avoid it, as much as possible, to protect my thumbs.

Topics: Stupid, School, Technology

I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.

Topics: Fall, Challenges, Trying, Trying Different Things

I've played English a number of times, and used an English accent a number of times, so it becomes a little bit of an obstacle course to go, "Oh, that's teetering into Captain Jack-ville," or "This is teetering into Chocolat or Wonka." You've got to really pay attention to the places you've been. But, that's part of it. That's the great challenge. You may get it wrong. There's a very good possibility that you can fall flat on your face, but that's a healthy thing for an actor.

Topics: Fall, Numbers, Challenges, Captain Jack

Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

Topics: Daughter, Done, May

As you get older, you recognize the erotic nature of the vampire and the idea of the undead.

Topics: Ideas, Vampire, Undead

If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor,' I beg you to slap me.

Topics: Funny, Acting, Actors, Catch Me, Slap

It's impossible to consider myself a producer. I can barely produce an English muffin, in the morning.

Topics: Morning, Muffins, Impossible

People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.

Topics: People, Choices, World, Human Behavior

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

Topics: Pirate

The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.

Topics: Eye, Jail, Mind

France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.

Topics: America, Europe, People

I'm attracted to the extreme light and the extreme dark. I'm interested in the human condition and what makes people tick. I'm interested in the things people try to hide.

Topics: Happy Life, Dark, Light

As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.

Topics: Inspirational, Teenager, Ambition, Being A Teenager, Type Of Guy

There is nothing on earth that could ever make me want to relive certain years of my life when I was young.

Topics: Years, Earth, Want

We're all damaged in our own way. Nobody's perfect. I think we're all somewhat screwy. Every single one of us.

Topics: Thinking, Perfect, Nobody's Perfect

Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.

Topics: Love, Life, Long, Phish, Inspirational Laughter

Over the years all these vampire movies have come out and nobody looks like a vampire anymore.

Topics: Years, Vampire, Looks, Vampire Movie

Ugliness is better than beauty. It lasts longer and in the end, gravity will get us all.

Topics: Funny, Witty, Lasts

Throughout my lifetime I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent.

Topics: Broken Heart, Ambition, Knowing, White Horse

I was always fascinated by people who are considered completely normal, because I find them the weirdest of all

Topics: People, Normal, Being Weird

I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do.

Topics: Captains

When I see someone who just follows their dream and succeeds, and just does basically what they want to do and doesn't have to answer to anyone, obviously not harming anyone, that's great.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Dream, Doe, Answers

How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in.

Topics: Musical, Serial Killer, Killers

I know exactly what I want. Everything. Calm, peace, tranquility, freedom, fun, happiness. If I could make all that one word, I would - a many-syllabled word.

Topics: Happiness, Fun, Want, Peace Tranquility

I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didn't really appreciate life the way I should have, but fortunately I woke up.

Topics: Children, Appreciate, Frustrated

A dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest.

Topics: Men, Caribbean, Captain Jack, Pirate Ships, Black Pearl

I'd rather fight a buzzsaw than dance.

Topics: Dance, Fighting

I may have a feather duster down my pants.

Topics: May, Pants, Feathers

It's good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don't think I can handle being here all the time, it's pretty nutty.

Topics: Thinking, Hollywood, Littles, Nutty

I guess I'm attracted to these off beat roles because my life has been a bit abnormal. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.

Topics: Roles, Abnormal, Problem, Normal And Abnormal

Tomorrow it'll all be over, then I'll have to go back to selling pens again.

Topics: Tomorrow, Selling, Pens

People will say a movie bombed at the box office but I couldn't care less.

Topics: People, Office, Care, Box Office

I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.

Topics: Men, Idiot, Fries, Ecstatic, Ecstatic Love

You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading.

Topics: Growing Up, Broken, Feel Good

You do the work and you want people to see it; but, um while I'm doing the work, the result doesn't matter at all to me. Ultimately, I don't, I don't care whether the film is - you know - some big giant box-office bonanza and I don't care if its a complete flop. To me, when a film gets made and it's actually finished it's a success. They're all a success in their own way.

Topics: Office, People, Care

For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I'm human and I'm normal - well, semi-normal.

Topics: Honesty, Long, Normal

My body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story.

Topics: Tattoo, Stories, Body

They say the world used to be bigger. The world's still the same--there's just less in it.

Topics: World, Used, Bigger

People cry, not because they're weak. It's because they've been strong for too long.

Topics: Strong, Long, People, Make You Cry, Being Depressed

I try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.

Topics: Funny, Expression, Confusion, I Am Confused, Being Confused

My body is a journal in a way. It's like what sailors used to do, where every tattoo meant something, a specific time in your life when you make a mark on yourself, whether you do it yourself with a knife or with a professional tattoo artist.

Topics: Tattoo, Artist, Knives

I think when you are young, you are hoping that this person will be the right one. The one you are going to be in love with forever, but sometimes you want that so much, you create something that isn't really there.

Topics: Emotional, Thinking, Forever

Love is not blind; it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.

Topics: Love Is, Failing, Blind, Love Is Blind

It's all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It's like you've met your reason to live.

Topics: Inspirational, Children, Profound, Reason To Live

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

Topics: Lying, Play, Acting, Best Acting

I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you're on it.

Topics: Thinking, Enjoy

I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Beer, Men, Lakes, Porch

I was poisoning myself with alcohol and medicating myself. I was trying to numb things. I was trying not to feel things, and that's ridiculous. It's one of the dumbest things you can do, because all you're doing is postponing the inevitable. Someday you'll have to look all those things in the eye rather than try to numb the pain.

Topics: Pain, Eye, Alcohol, Poisoning, Postponing

When kids hit one year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.

Topics: Kids, Years, Drunk, Having Kids, Miniatures

We don't always cry because we are weak, sometimes we cry because we have been strong, brave and courageous for way too long.

Topics: Strong, Yoga, Long

One day, the people that didn't believe in you will tell everyone how they met you.

Topics: Believe, People, One Day

Success doesn't change you... It reveals you

Topics: Grief

Do what you really want to do. Don't play their game! Don't do what they want. Find your own way.

Topics: Games, Play, Want

Love is one of the hardest words to say and one of the easiest to hear.

Topics: Love Is, Hardest

Keep moving forward and do what you have to do for you.

Topics: Moving, Moving Forward, Keep Moving Forward

One of the greatest pieces of advice I've ever gotten in my life was from my mom. When I was a little kid there was a kid who was bugging me at school and she said "Okay, I'm gonna tell you what to do. If the kid's bugging you and puts his hands on you; you pick up the nearest rock.

Topics: Mom, School, Kids, Bugging You

Most people are really nuts and that's fascinating to me.

Topics: Nuts, People, Fascinating

School's a weird thing. I'm not sure it works.

Topics: School, Weird Things, Not Sure

I've never been particularly ambitious. I'm driven by the moment.

Topics: Ambitious, Moments, Driven

It's important to keep challenging myself and try to come up with some new face every now and again.

source: - "Johnny Depp Talks Groomed Beards, Funny Pajamas, and Artistic Freedom". Interview with Molly Goodson, www.popsugar.com. December 1, 2010.

Topics: Challenges, Important, Trying, Challenging Myself, New Faces

I don't trust anyone who hasn't been self-destructiv e in some way, and who hasn't gone through some sort of bout of self-loathing. You've got to bang yourself around a bit to know yourself.

Topics: Self, Loathing, Bangs, Self Loathing, Can't Trust Anyone

Even when you're down and blue, just remember that someone out there loves you, even if you don't know it and even if you haven't yet met them. There's someone out there waiting for you, remember that and keep faith. You'll get there.

Topics: Love You, Romantic Love, Blue

You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Funny, Inspiring, Money, Change Your Attitude, Perfectly Normal

All men would be cowards if they only had the courage.

Topics: Men, Coward, Would Be, Libertine

The problem is that everybody treats teenagers like they're stupid.

Topics: Teenager, Stupid, Problem

I would give everything if I could only keep my family.

Topics: Inspirational, Giving, My Family

People in life, when they have a tendency to exaggerate or lie or whatever, you always sort of notice that their voice goes up quite high.

source: - Press Conference: Johnny Depp Talks Rango, www.mtv.com. March 3, 2011.

Topics: Lying, Voice, People

They stick you with those names, those labels -- ‘rebel’ or whatever; whatever they like to use. Because they need a label; they need a name. They need something to put the price tag on the back of.

Topics: Motivational, Price Tag, Names

I trust kids far more than I do adults. Kids give you the honest opinion. They tell the truth.

source: - "Cast & Crew Interview, RANGO". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

Topics: Kids, Giving, Adults

Sometimes I feel like I'm possessed with a multitude of demons.

Topics: Sometimes, Demon, Feels

Every relationship has problems but when those problems arise you have to realise that they don't mean your relationship is broken, it's just a little bent. Bent things can be fixed and like so your relationship can too. The first step however is realising that.

Topics: Mean, Romantic Love, Broken

Any character that you come up with or create is a piece of you. You're putting yourself into that character, but there's the guise of the character. So there's a certain amount of safety in the character, where you feel more safe being the character than you do being just you

Topics: Character, Safety, Pieces

If they let me choose between you and the dog, I'll choose the dog.

Topics: Dog, Let Me, Ifs

I do trust women. I have a lot of women in my life. I have a mother. I have a woman. There's a lot of women around me. And I do trust them. And they trust me, as far as I know.

source: - "Cast & Cres Interview, RANGO". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

Topics: Mother, Trust Me, Knows

I found the evil in myself a long time ago, and I've accepted it. We're old friends.

source: - "Venice: Johnny Depp Talks Becoming James "Whitey" Bulger in 'Black Mass" by Ariston Anderson, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 4, 2015.

Topics: Long, Evil, Old Friends

I'm not sure I'm adult yet.

Topics: Adults, Not Sure

I just watched cartoons for three years, and that had a strong affect on me.

source: - "Johnny Depp on His Varied Career, Jack Sparrow, and “Torturing” Leonardo DiCaprio". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 6, 2016.

Topics: Strong, Years, Cartoon

If it's called a selfie, why are there people in it?

Topics: People, Ifs

Me and music. Music was always my first love. It was my first love for sure. And still is a huge part of my life.

Topics: First Love, Firsts, Stills

No one wants to go out mid-sentence.

Topics: Want, Sentences

I actually tell lies for a living. Exactly. I mean, that's what acting is, really.

source: - "Johnny Depp Smells Good: Rango Junket Report". www.chud.com. March 01, 2011.

Topics: Lying, Mean, Acting

When you realize you're essentially you're God, there ain't nothing on earth more powerful than you, you can do anything you want.

source: - "The Depp In the Machine". Interview with Angela Dawson, frontrowfeatures.com. April 16, 2014.

Topics: Powerful, Earth, Want

If you fall in love with 2 people at once choose the second one because if you truly loved the first one you never would have fell in love with the second one

Topics: Spiritual, Falling In Love, People

If there is any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's ok to be different.

Topics: Different, Messages, Inspirational Celebrity

For me, ambition has become a dirty word. I prefer hunger. To be hungry- great. To have hopes, dreams- great.

Topics: Dream, Dirty, Ambition, Dirty Words, Great Ambition

Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.

Topics: Romantic, Gambling, Height

My recipe for success is chance, basically. Just luck. It's a miracle that people still hire me after some of the stuff I've gotten away with. Honestly!

source: - View London Interview, www.viewlondon.co.uk.

Topics: People, Miracle, Luck

Growing old is unavoidable, but never growing up is possible. I believe you can retain certain things from your childhood if you protect them - certain traits, certain places where you don’t let the world go.

Topics: Growing Up, Believe, Childhood

I've been told I smell good. I don't look like I smell good.

Topics: Smell, Looks

You never think you're on the verge of disaster while you're looking over the edge yourself. It's your friends and family who are trying to get you to stop destroying yourself and after a while it kind of sank in and I just cleaned up my act.

Topics: Thinking, Alcohol, Drug, Over The Edge, Destroying Yourself

Attention is a strange sort of being, anyway, the idea of attention if someone appreciates your work. It's always nice that someone appreciates your work.

source: - "Johnny Depp dishes Rango". www.sheknows.com. March 01, 2011.

Topics: Nice, Ideas, Appreciate, Appreciate You

If you really take a step back and observe people who are considered super-normal and watch them a bit, you'll realize that they're actually completely out of their minds! Most people are really nuts, and that's fascinating.

Topics: Nuts, People, Mind

As soon as we fall in love and we realise we've met the one the rest of our lives can't come soon enough. It's not like you're in a rush to get to the finish line, you're in a rush to feel and experience everything and then do it all again.

Topics: Falling In Love, Romantic Love, Soon Enough

Once you get on the ship, everything is fine. Once you get on land, everything is not so fine.

source: - "Johnny Depp on His Varied Career, Jack Sparrow, and “Torturing” Leonardo DiCaprio". collider.com. February 6, 2016.

Topics: Land, Ships, Fine

There's no truth anymore.

I've always enjoyed hiding behind these characters. It's a strange thing, you're more comfortable as a character than you are in life. I could stand up in front of, it doesn't matter how many people, as a character. But if I had to do it as myself and give a speech, I would be liquid.

source: - Interview with Iggy Pop, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2014.

Topics: Character, People, Giving

I was always a fan of the great old spaghetti Westerns, the Sergio Leone films. But the one that always sticks with me, that I just thought was brilliant and perfect is "Cat Ballou." Lee Marvin in "Cat Ballou."

Topics: Cat, Perfect, Fans, Sergio Leone

They’re all about where people come from. The only thing important is where somebody’s going.

Topics: People, Important, Public Enemies

When faced with two choices simply toss a coin. It works not because it settles the question for you, but because in that brief moment when the coin is in the air, you suddenly know what you are hoping for. If you love two people at the same time, choose the second one, because if you really loved the first one you wouldn't have fallen for the second.

Topics: Air, Two, People

I think, for me as an actor, if you get to a place where you're satisfied, you're happy with it, then you're dead. It's over. You're not hungry anymore. You won't try things anymore.

source: - "Brooding Johnny muses on his motley career and reinventing Ichabod Crane for Tim Burton's 'Sleepy Hollow'". Q&A Session, www.contactmusic.com. January 5, 2009.

Topics: Thinking, Over You, Trying

America is dumb, it's like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you, aggressive.

source: - "Johnny Depp: U.S. is like a stupid puppy". edition.cnn.com. September 3, 2003.

Topics: Hurt, America, Dumb

They tell you to be careful because maybe you don't want to meet your heroes. I've met pretty much every one, and I've never been let down.

source: - "Johnny Depp on His Varied Career, Jack Sparrow, and “Torturing” Leonardo DiCaprio". collider.com. February 6, 2016.

Topics: Hero, Want, Let Down

I did mostly alcohol. There were drugs, too - pills - and there was a danger that I would go over the edge. I could have. I thank God I didn't.

Topics: Alcohol, Drug, Thank God

I love people. And when you love people that much that you're disappointed in them every day, that love can turn to hate in a flash of a second.

Topics: Hate, People, Flash

I can't stand not being able to joke around on set, so I have to.

source: - "Johnny Depp on His Varied Career, Jack Sparrow, and “Torturing” Leonardo DiCaprio". collider.com. February 6, 2016.

Topics: Able, Jokes, I Can

It's absolutely fine when Wile E. Coyote walks in with a band-aid on his head, after a 3,000-pound rock is dropped on him. That is what Ed Wood meant by the suspension of disbelief.

source: - "Johnny Depp on His Varied Career, Jack Sparrow, and “Torturing” Leonardo DiCaprio". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 6, 2016.

Topics: Rocks, Coyotes, Band, Suspension Of Disbelief, Wile E Coyote

Well, having no intelligence, I'm looking forward to gaining some, whether artificial, superficial or super-duper.

source: - "Johnny Depp, Director Wally Pfister and Writer Jack Paglen Talk TRANSCENDENCE, Artificial Intelligence, the Frankenstein Archetype, BLACK MASS, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 17, 2014.

Topics: Looking Forward, Superficial, Wells

My daughter was asked by a little old lady in a London hotel restaurant what her daddy did. She answered, “He’s a pirate” - I was very proud of that answer.

Topics: Daughter, Daddy, Pirate

I literally went from being unable to play my rent to being on a plane the next day, being paid peanuts.

source: - "Johnny Depp on His Varied Career, Jack Sparrow, and “Torturing” Leonardo DiCaprio". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 6, 2016.

Topics: Play, Next Day, Peanuts

For me, the question was, how can one take a live-action performance and put it in the parameter of one of those cartoons? How much can you get away with?

source: - "Johnny Depp on His Varied Career, Jack Sparrow, and “Torturing” Leonardo DiCaprio". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 6, 2016.

Topics: Cartoon, Action, Get Away

I just happen to be a sucker for humor. So anywhere I can sneak in something that I find potentially interesting or funny I do it as much as I can get away with.

source: - "Johnny Depp Interview PUBLIC ENEMIES". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. July 1, 2009.

Topics: Sneak In, Interesting, Get Away

Obviously, technology is moving and reshaping itself, radically, every day. We're all capable of answering that question within ourselves. Would you do it for the person that you love? Would you be married to a hard drive, essentially?

source: - "Johnny Depp, Director Wally Pfister and Writer Jack Paglen Talk TRANSCENDENCE, Artificial Intelligence, the Frankenstein Archetype, BLACK MASS, and More". collider.com. April 17, 2014.

Topics: Moving, Technology, Married

Now, bring me that horizon.

Topics: Horizon

I'm scared of boogers. If anyone ever showed me a booger I'd smash their face in.

Topics: Faces, Scared, Boogers

The quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter in LA. I would never raise any child there.

Topics: Daughter, Mother, Children, Quality Of Life

It's a great honor that something that you took part in creating becomes this forever object.

source: - "Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Rob Marshall and Jerry Bruckheimer Interview PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 17, 2011.

Topics: Creating, Forever, Honor

You can't plan the kind of deep love that results in children. Fatherhood was not a conscious decision. It was part of the wonderful ride I was on. All the math finally worked.

source: - "Depp's Vigil For Sick Daughter" by Stephen Moyes, www.mirror.co.uk. March 8, 2007.

Topics: Children, Math, Destiny, Kismet

Thats what a ship is, you know. Its not a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. Thats what a ship needs. But what a ship is. What the Black Pearl really is . . . is freedom.

Topics: Sailing, Black, Nautical, Caribbean, Hull

I found a girl, fell in love, she had a baby, and i fell in love again.

Topics: Girl, Baby, Found

As a child, I certainly had a fascination with monsters and vampires.

source: - "Johnny Depp and Tim Burton Talk DARK SHADOWS, Pulling from the TV Series, Deleted Scenes, a Sequel and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 8, 2012.

Topics: Children, Vampire, Monsters

I realized that it was great to have a job, but it didn't have anything remotely to do with what I was striving for, so why was I doing it?

source: - "Johnny Depp on His Varied Career, Jack Sparrow, and “Torturing” Leonardo DiCaprio". collider.com. February 6, 2016.

Topics: Jobs, Strive, I Realized

The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing.

Topics: Fake People, Gossip, World News

When you play a character that exists or existed, there's a stronger responsibility that you have. You owe that person and then you owe the family, you owe history, you owe the victims, the victims' families.

source: - "Johnny Depp's Portrayal of Whitey Bulger All Wrong, Lawyer for Mob Boss Says" by Ryan Parker, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 19, 2015.

Topics: Character, Responsibility, Play

I condition myself to believe that once the scene is done, once the movie is done, my job is done, and whatever happens after that is none of my business.

source: - "Brooding Johnny muses on his motley career and reinventing Ichabod Crane for Tim Burton's 'Sleepy Hollow'". Q&A Session, www.contactmusic.com. January 5, 2009.

Topics: Jobs, Believe, Done

I think today we've gone so far technologically and also just emotionally and psychologically, I mean there's a lot of crime out there and there's a lot of stuff going on. People don't care that they're going to go to prison. They couldn't give a rat about the repercussions. They go out and they do what they do and they don't care about hurting anyone else.

source: - "Johnny Depp Interview PUBLIC ENEMIES". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. July 1, 2009.

Topics: Hurt, Mean, Thinking, Repercussions

France and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing, though, is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Europe, America, People, American Culture

The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.'

Topics: Party, Airplane, Actors, Republican Party

Jesus, music has always been my first love. I use music in my work because it's the fastest way to an emotional place. You hear a song, and that memory comes right back-- you're there... Making music is immediate, and it's all about you. If you're playing guitar, the feeling comes through-- the way you bend the note, the intensity with which you hit the strings. With making films, although it's real emotion, it's false emotion. You're lying.

Topics: Song, Jesus, Memories, Real Emotion, Playing Guitar

Whenever you have a photo shoot or something like that, it’s like-you just feel dumb. It’s just so stupid.

Topics: Stupid, Dumb, Like You

I'm not 'Blockbuster Boy.' I never wanted to be. I wasn't looking for that.

source: - "Johnny be good" by Kevin Sessums, www.vanityfair.com. February 3, 1997.

Topics: Boys, Wanted, Blockbuster

I'm not blockbuster boy.

source: - "Johnny Depp | No 11". www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2010.

Topics: Boys, Blockbuster

[Jack Sparrow]'s a blast to play. I'll be in a deep, dark depression saying goodbye to him. I'll keep the costume and just prance around the house, entertain the kids....I mean, at a certain point, the madness must stop, but for the moment, I can't say that he's done.

Topics: Goodbye, Mean, Kids, Deep Dark

If there's a message to pass to people, I'd say that it's normal to be different from others, it's good to differ from one another, and we'd better look at ourselves first before we start criticising someone who looks, acts, speaks different or has a different skin colour. I'd like to continue, even at a minimal level, what John Lennon had started. If I could do as much as a bit of what he did, if I could contribute to the elimination of hatred among us, that would be a great deal.

Topics: People, Hatred, Skins

An actor needs to be not remotely anywhere close to in control, and a filmmaker has to be totally in control.

source: - "Johnny Depp on His Varied Career, Jack Sparrow, and “Torturing” Leonardo DiCaprio". collider.com. February 6, 2016.

Topics: Needs, Actors, Filmmaker

It really depends on what the screenplay is asking of you, and what your responsibility is to that character. You have the author's intent to deal with, you have the filmmaker's vision, and then you have your own wants, desires and needs for the character. It's collaborative. But I knew, right off the bat, that there was no way to go into some sort of pink-haired, clown-nosed character with Ronald McDonald shoes.

source: - "Johnny Depp, Director Wally Pfister and Writer Jack Paglen Talk TRANSCENDENCE, Artificial Intelligence, the Frankenstein Archetype, BLACK MASS, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 17, 2014.

Topics: Character, Responsibility, Shoes, Ronald Mcdonald

In terms of it being a first screenplay, literally, my hat is off to him [Wally Pfister]. I didn't see any virgin blather in screen direction, or anything like that. It was just a wonderfully executed piece, and a complicated one. The mathematics involved in putting this film together, between Jack and Wally, and the great support of Alcon, it was not a easy little operetta.

Topics: Support, Together, Pieces, Blather

There were so many great teachers that had so much to offer. The idea of being rigid, why would you do that? People have their things, but why be rigid with any education when you can take things from here and take things from there?

source: - "Johnny Depp on His Varied Career, Jack Sparrow, and “Torturing” Leonardo DiCaprio". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 6, 2016.

Topics: Teacher, Ideas, People

Knowing that a great bit of the technology is active and actually happening, and that the technology that we're talking about, in terms of uploading a human consciousness, is probably not all that far away, to be honest. Indeed, it will happen. It's pretty close.

source: - "Johnny Depp, Director Wally Pfister and Writer Jack Paglen Talk TRANSCENDENCE, Artificial Intelligence, the Frankenstein Archetype, BLACK MASS, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 17, 2014.

Topics: Technology, Talking, Knowing, Human Consciousness

I hope some day to make you all a cup of coffee. Alright, peace.

Topics: Coffee, Speech, Cups

I got to take my kids to the London eye with no one looking at me like I was Johnny Depp. They did look at me like I was some kind of sicko walking around with beautiful kids, but I had a perfect disguise.

source: - "Johnny Depp on His Varied Career, Jack Sparrow, and “Torturing” Leonardo DiCaprio". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 6, 2016.

Topics: Beautiful, Kids, Eye

You're looking at each and every potential corner for an air bubble to escape. Absolutely! You're on the best of your game.

source: - "Johnny Depp on His Varied Career, Jack Sparrow, and “Torturing” Leonardo DiCaprio". collider.com. February 6, 2016.

Topics: Air, Games, Corners

I always felt that if you're not trying something different each time out of the gate, you're being safe, and you don't ever want to find that place of safety. I like that, each time, before I even go in front of the cameras, the studio's reaction will be fear.

source: - Interview with Iggy Pop, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2014.

Topics: Safety, Trying, Cameras, Trying Something

You can go out and try to do the best work that you can do within the context of what that is, but it's really gotta be about the work and what you're focusing on.

source: - "Johnny Depp on His Varied Career, Jack Sparrow, and “Torturing” Leonardo DiCaprio". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 6, 2016.

Topics: Trying, Best Work, Do The Best

I'm not a great pothead or anything like that... but weed is much, much less dangerous than alcohol.

Topics: Weed, Alcohol, Potheads