Top 100 Johnny Depp Quotes
#1. I was never a cokehead or anything like that. I always despised that drug. I thought it was a waste of time, pointless.
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#2. If someone is being bullied or feels like an outsider, and they relate to something that I've done, even if it's just igniting a spark, that's great. I had that feeling as a kid. I was messed with no end.
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#3. I don't think of myself as being a celebrity, it's too mortifying. I have a hard time watching myself on screen and it's getting worse. I can't tell whether my work is good or not.
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#4. I try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.
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#5. Having been familiar with "drunk" once or twice myself, that lick just came to me - and yeah, it sounded very drunk, so I presented it to Alice [Cooper]. It felt like he wrote the lyrics in about a minute.
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#6. 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.
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#7. 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.
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#8. I'm not a great pothead or anything like that ... but weed is much, much less dangerous than alcohol.
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#9. The wardrobe guy [of Blow] was a genius. He was so tapped into that period and he brought me the ugliest things I'd ever seen and then they were somehow beautiful.
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#10. 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.
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#11. My experience with Sondheim has been nothing but glorious, especially for a guy who doesn't sing.
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#12. I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and fascination with things like little children. I think we can keep that, and I think it's important to keep that part of staying young. But I also think it's great fun growing old.
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#13. Not being well-versed in that arena myself, it's a little bit frightening because I'm not very good in those situations with lots of people and lots of famous people and cameras and all of that. It's not my specialty.
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#14. I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.
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#15. The thing is, even if you're playing sort of a heightened character and playing inside sort of a heightened reality, you can still apply your own truths to those characters.
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#16. How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in.
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#17. 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.
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#18. I think it's an actor's responsibility to change every time. Not only for himself and the people he's working with, but for the audience. If you just go out and deliver the same dish every time ... it's meat loaf again ... you'd get bored. I'd get bored.
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#19. A dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest.
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#20. 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.
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#21. For me, ambition has become a dirty word. I prefer hunger. To be hungry- great. To have hopes, dreams- great.
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#22. What attracted me to Jimmy Bulger were the various facets of his personality and his humanity because I felt that the only way I could approach playing a character like him was to find his human side first and then map that out to see where it took the turn. He was a very complicated man.
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#23. Every filmmaker's different, every filmmaker has a different approach.
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#24. I made odd noises as a child. Just did weird things, like turn off light switches twice. I think my parents thought I had Tourette's syndrome.
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#25. Kids accept a lot more, and they buy it, because they're free.
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#26. I detest jokes - when somebody tells me one, I feel my IQ dropping; the brain cells start to disappear. But something is funny when the person delivering the line doesn't know it's funny or doesn't treat it as a joke. Maybe it comes from a place of truth, or it's a sort of rage against society.
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#27. Any man who had to carry a child would cave in around month two.
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#28. I always have a decompression period at the end of a film. Sometimes it joyful, because you're just happy to be done. Or it can be melancholy.
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#29. You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.
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#30. 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.
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#31. Everything is just very, very blurry. I've never had proper vision.
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#32. Ironically, it was only maybe a year prior to Tim calling I had re-read Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, and what I took away from it was these very strange, little cryptic nuggets that he'd thrown in there.
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#33. Here's the thing - if Donald Trump is elected president of the United States, in a kind of historical way, it's exciting because we will see the actual last president of the United States. It just won't work after that.
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#34. I do realise and understand very well on a profound level how lucky I am and what a privileged position it is and what it's done ultimately for me, my family and my kids. But at the same time, there are moments in a man's life when you just kind of want to feel somewhat normal.
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#35. On a film, you start to get closer and closer with the people you're working with, and it becomes like this circus act or this travelling family.
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#36. I'm not even born yet. I'm still trying. I'm still pushing. I don't ever want to get to a place where I feel satisfied.
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#37. 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.
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#38. 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.
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#39. At my very core, I'm pretty shy. I just happen to have a weird job.
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#40. 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.
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#41. I don't think it's anything you ever get used to ... for many years, I could never sort of put my name in the same sort of category as the word 'famous' or anything like that. And I just found it very uncomfortable ... if you get used to it, then something must be wrong.
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#42. You always miss them [characters you've played] once you've walked away, but part of them always stays with you too.
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#43. I was always fascinated by people who are considered completely normal, because I find them the weirdest of all
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#44. 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.
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#45. Interestingly enough, for me, a character like Captain Jack, you feel like you could just continue. The possibilities are endless and limitless. There is any possibility of madness and absurdity that could commence, so you feel that, with this character, you're never really done.
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#46. I wasn't into the lunchbox and thermos ski slope, and that's where I was going.
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#47. 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.
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#48. When I met people they said, 'You do look like a hobo, but you smell really good.'
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#49. You gotta be careful: don't say a word to nobody about nothing anytime ever.
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#50. 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.
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#51. One of the most beautiful things in the world is seeing a mommy with her kids. There's nothing more beautiful, nothing more sublime.
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#52. 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. It Was Destiny; Kismet. All the Math Finally Worked.
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#53. It's such a funny thing when you see your daughter transitioning from your baby, your little girl, to suddenly being a young woman. If you're not really looking for it, you can miss it, and Lily-Rose is on that road already, and there's nothing I can do to stop it.
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#54. 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.
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#55. People will say a movie bombed at the box office but I couldn't care less.
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#56. 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.
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#57. I always had an affinity for lizards. I've always felt somewhat close to them. They're reptiles. I find myself feeling somewhat reptilian at times.
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#58. I started pulling gags on Al [Pachino]. That was the moment I realized that he was absolutely out of his mind. I mean that he's certifiably insane. I wouldn't spend a night in a room where he's at.
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#59. Nobody's ever made a film in the history of cinema where they weren't expecting some return on their dough.
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#60. Life's pretty good, and why wouldnt it be? I'm a pirate, after all.
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#61. 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.
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#62. With my kids, they're told 75 times a day that they're loved. One thing I know is they feel loved and secure and happy and needed and necessary and a part of something.
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#63. I literally went from being unable to play my rent to being on a plane the next day, being paid peanuts.
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#64. I really love the experience of moving things around, in terms of being a director.
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#65. Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.
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#66. It's important to keep challenging myself and try to come up with some new face every now and again.
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#67. When you have children, there is no room for lies, no room for anything but the truth. Anything other than that is a bad example, I believe.
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#68. 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 ].
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#69. She's kind of a walking poem, she's this perfect beauty ... but at the same time very deep, very smart.
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#70. Do what you really want to do. Don't play their game! Don't do what they want. Find your own way.
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#71. Religion is a fascinating black hole to me.
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#72. When I can focus on something like guitar or painting, I do. I started painting people I admire, like Kerouac, Bob Dylan, Nelson Algren, Marlon Brando, Patti Smith, my girl, my kids.
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#74. Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.
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#75. At 13, I was wearing plain t-shirts. Then I used to steal my mom's clothing. She had all these crushed-velvet shirts with French-cut sleeves. And, like, seersucker bell-bottoms.
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#76. 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.
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#77. It's an odd thing when there is a fan page for my daughter who is not yet 13.
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#78. There's definitely healing properties to being in proximity to the ocean and that breeze. There's something about that Caribbean climate and humidity.
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#79. 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.
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#80. After having been confined to a television series - and it's a luxury job - where you can't play anything but one particular character for nine months out of the year, it will make you insane. It didn't affect me. I got out quick enough.
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#81. I suppose the only thing at 50 you can really start to look forward to is just total irresponsibility. As you get older, you can just sit in a chair, wear anything you want, you know you can walk down; old people dress cool. You know they wear sweatpants. The elderly have it down.
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#82. You're looking at each and every potential corner for an air bubble to escape. Absolutely! You're on the best of your game.
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#83. They say the world used to be bigger. The world's still the same
there's just less in it.
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#84. 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.
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#85. 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?
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#86. 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.
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#87. I don't go anywhere without a book by James Joyce called 'Finnegan's Wake.'
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#88. People make great films. I just don't have the eyes to watch them.
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#89. I think Alice [Cooper] probably, on some level, recognized that good old self-destructive streak that does happen in some people's lives. So, though I wasn't there with Alice and the Vampires, but I'd give anything in the world to have been, I had my own version, I suppose, a little later.
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#90. 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.
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#91. 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
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#92. The commercial flight thing, it just gets a little weird when you're standing in line and suddenly you're not just a guy standing in line anymore - you become sort of 'novelty boy.'
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#93. I may have a feather duster down my pants.
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#94. It's been insane. From Whitey Bulger to the Mad Hatter, you can imagine the schizophrenia.
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#95. I never wanted to be the guy people looked at. I don't think of myself as being a celebrity; it's too mortifying.
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#96. I'm having too much fun today to worry about tomorrow.
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#97. There come a time, when good man must wear mask.
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#98. I don't know if you remember me, but I used to work here in the factory."
Were you one of those despicable spies who every day tried to steal my life's work and sell it to those paraseeded cop cat, candy making cads?"
No sir!"
Then wonderful, welcome back!
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#100. I still approach a scene as one would approach a solo. There's nothing set or pat.
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