
Top 100 Depp Johnny Quotes
#1. 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.
Johnny Depp
#2. It's funny, because what happens to me when I read a script, when something grabs hold of me, I start getting these flashes of people or places or things or images.
Johnny Depp
#3. How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in.
Johnny Depp
#4. 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.
Johnny Depp
#5. Johnny Depp already seen how alcohol and drugs can get in the way of a career. And you have to remember one thing: Johnny was a guitar player and a rock-and-roller way before he was an actor. When he came to Los Angeles, he came with his band.
Alice Cooper
#6. Well, having no intelligence, I'm looking forward to gaining some, whether artificial, superficial or super-duper.
Johnny Depp
#7. '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.
Johnny Depp
#8. If someone was making a movie about F1 in the last six months, they wouldn't need to add a Hollywood ending. If they do make that movie, it's got to be 'The Curious Case Of Jenson Button,' where I've lived my life backwards. I'd like Johnny Depp to play me but he wouldn't be quite right.
Jenson Button
#9. I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.
Johnny Depp
#10. There's no director or actor that I want to work with more than anyone else, other then maybe Johnny Depp, who I really would love to work with. I don't view any directors or actors above regular people, so I'm just happy to work with anyone, as long as they have talent.
Callan McAuliffe
#11. Yeah, I know you. I made you up. This is my dream. You're a mixture of Zac Efron and Johnny Depp.
P.C. Cast
#12. When I auditioned for '21 Jump Street,' it was a last minute thing. I had one of the worst flus that I've ever experienced in my life, and I was forced to go to the audition, the screen test.
Johnny Depp
#13. I think working with Johnny Depp was very intimidating. It was my fault though. I mean he's a total cool nice, nice guy, but I was just so, I don't know, overpowered by his presence. Like he's a very mystic person. He's older so I never really warmed up around him. I was so stiff.
Franka Potente
#14. I'm into the scruff. I like an unkempt man. I mean, not like beard to the chest, but I'm definitely a Johnny Depp kinda girl.
Sarah Hay
#15. Captain Jack Sparrow is like a cross between Keith Richards and Pepe Le Pew.
Johnny Depp
#16. I don't care. I'm just gonna smoke. I'm just gonna totally smoke. I'll finish these, go to the store and get a brand new pack, smoke the shit out of that one.
Johnny Depp
#17. I just watched cartoons for three years, and that had a strong affect on me.
Johnny Depp
#18. 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.
Johnny Depp
#19. Somehow you've been voted something for a magazine, and it's a complete mystery to me. I mean, I wake up and I have to look at that head when I brush my teeth every morning. And it's weird and it's unpleasant at times.
Johnny Depp
#20. I would love to share the screen with Meryl Streep, wouldn't we all? I would love to work with Spielberg and Scorsese; that would be lovely. I'm also a huge fan of Johnny Depp and the way he creates his characters, so that would be fun. I mean, any of the greats, really.
Grace Gealey
#21. 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.
Johnny Depp
#22. People build up a picture of Johnny Depp as being some sort of weird pirate character. In reality he's incredibly nice ... one of the nicest people I've ever met.
Freddie Highmore
#23. 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.
Johnny Depp
#24. I always felt like I was meant to have been born in another era, another time.
Johnny Depp
#25. 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.
Johnny Depp
#26. 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.
Johnny Depp
#27. Crazy people don't know they're crazy. I know I'm crazy, therefore I am not crazy. Isn't that crazy?
Johnny Depp
#28. I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste.
Johnny Depp
#29. There are these mythic unicorn-y tales of method acting, but Marlon [Brando] wanted to have a good time.
Johnny Depp
#30. I can't tell my self that I'm a serious actor. But I'm serious person.
Johnny Depp
#31. 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.
Johnny Depp
#32. Lying in bed with Johnny Depp sussing out which males are what kind of pet from their clothes.
Diane Messidoro
#33. A dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest.
Johnny Depp
#34. I've had the honor and the pleasure and gift of having known Elizabeth Taylor for a number of years. You know, you sit down with her, she slings hash, she sits there and cusses like a sailor, and she's hilarious.
Johnny Depp
#35. 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?
Johnny Depp
#36. 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.
Johnny Depp
#37. 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.
Johnny Depp
#38. When you had the fangs in, you wanted to be a little bit careful that you didn't actually pierce the jugular, kind of like my experience shaving Alan Rickman, which by the way neither of us want to do again, especially Alan.
Johnny Depp
#40. I'm just an actor, and if I can leave something behind that my kids will be proud of, then that's what I want. I don't want my kids to be embarrassed by anything I've done.
Johnny Depp
#41. If there's any message, it is ultimately that it's okay 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.
Johnny Depp
#42. Ugliness is better than beauty. It lasts longer and in the end, gravity will get us all.
Johnny Depp
#43. 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.
Johnny Depp
#44. Puberty was very vague. I literally locked myself in a room and played guitar.
Johnny Depp
#45. You know, Johnny Depp has always been a massive inspiration for me and he's somebody who has produced an incredible amount of work, and every single piece that he does is amazing.
Jamie Campbell Bower
#46. I always figured that once I wrapped a film, then anything beyond that is none of my business. If I can avoid seeing the final product, then all I have in my head is feeling good about the experience.
Johnny Depp
#47. 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.
Johnny Depp
#48. I look up to actors. I look up to Robert DeNiro, I look up to Johnny Depp, I look up to Al Pacino, I look up to run-of-the-mill really good actors. I love watching movies, and I love watching other actors and learning from them.
Edward Furlong
#49. The first time I went to Johnny Depp's house in LA is when I realized what I was getting myself into. I knew he was famous, but I didn't really know what that entailed.
Kate Moss
#51. I don't know if I can relax. Relax, I can't do. My brain, on idle, is a bad thing. I just get weird. I mean, not weird. I get, I get antsy.
Johnny Depp
#52. 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.
Johnny Depp
#54. I've never been particularly ambitious. I'm driven by the moment.
Johnny Depp
#55. I'm a big fan of character actors like Johnny Depp and Gary Oldman. My goal is to continue playing character roles in indie films and move into playing character leads.
Thomas Ian Nicholas
#56. As a child, I certainly had a fascination with monsters and vampires.
Johnny Depp
#57. If you had to chose one half of your son, which one would it be?"
What kind of a question is that?!"
No need to snap. It was just a question.
Johnny Depp
#58. The problem is that everybody treats teenagers like they're stupid.
Johnny Depp
#59. For the actor, The Lee Strasberg Notes are an indispensable companion.
Johnny Depp
#60. 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.
Johnny Depp
#61. I had just had a daughter, who was three or three-and-half years old, and I had been watching nothing but cartoons. That's really it. There was no YouTube. You're in France and you're raising a kid, so you break out the Tex Avery.
Johnny Depp
#62. 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.
Johnny Depp
#63. One of my favorites of all time was with Jim Jarmusch, called 'Dead Man.' I was in that with Johnny Depp. I ride really well, and I shoot a gun really well. I love the genre. Once I did Westerns, I was hooked.
Lance Henriksen
#64. Let me just say it out loud so we can laugh together: You're going to find Johnny Depp, take him back to Vahalal, and put him in a zoo?
Gary Ghislain
#65. It's true I have a hard time with the notion of creating a character. And I feel it's a limit. I'm always really impressed by actors who are able to construct a character, like Johnny Depp.
Louis Garrel
#66. I came to Los Angeles for the first time in 1994. I spoke no English. I only knew how to say two sentences: 'How are you?' and 'I want to work with Johnny Depp.'
Penelope Cruz
#67. People cry, not because they are weak. It is because they've been strong for too long.
Johnny Depp
#68. 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.
Johnny Depp
#69. 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.
Johnny Depp
#70. I try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.
Johnny Depp
#71. 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.
Johnny Depp
#72. Apparently I had lunch with Johnny Depp when I was three months old.
Alice Englert
#73. 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.
Johnny Depp
#74. I was never a cokehead or anything like that. I always despised that drug. I thought it was a waste of time, pointless.
Johnny Depp
#75. They're all about where people come from. The only thing important is where somebody's going.
Johnny Depp
#76. I trust kids far more than I do adults. Kids give you the honest opinion. They tell the truth.
Johnny Depp
#77. 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.
Johnny Depp
#78. I was expecting someone dark to play 'Dexter' - someone like Johnny Depp.
Jeff Lindsay
#79. One day the people that didn't believe in you will tell everyone how they met you.
Johnny Depp
#81. My experience with Sondheim has been nothing but glorious, especially for a guy who doesn't sing.
Johnny Depp
#82. I think Ryan Gosling is a really great actor who's meticulous about his work. And I'd love to have the guts that Johnny Depp has to actually go outside the box on a character. When he plays a character, he plays it in a way that nobody else would.
Ashton Kutcher
#83. I still have a crush on Johnny Depp, and I literally only started dating my husband because he looked like Johnny Depp - and he knows that. We've been together for twelve years, and he still looks like Johnny Depp.
Eliza Coupe
#84. 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.
Johnny Depp
#85. Oh yeah, that's the Holy Grail, Pirates of the Caribbean. Johnny Depp, he's the real deal, isn't he? He doesn't get the girl, and he doesn't care.
William H. Macy
#86. I'm always for the Indian in the cowboy movie. Always.
Johnny Depp
#87. I love Johnny (Depp). A lot of the stuff I've done for him stands out for me just because of the relationship and who he is.
Colleen Atwood
#88. 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.
Johnny Depp
#89. I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.
Johnny Depp
#90. If there is any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's ok to be different.
Johnny Depp
#91. 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.
Johnny Depp
#92. 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.
Johnny Depp
#93. Lily's really together - she's a sharp kid and one of the smartest human beings I have ever met. Whatever she is doing, if she needs any advice, I'm there for her. Kids are going to make their own decisions, but I guess that the only thing you can do as a parent is to offer support. And I do.
Johnny Depp
#94. That's just stupid," said Chuck. "Have a look around at the rest of the animal kingdom lately? I'll have sex with anyone who doesn't try to kill me."
"And even then, as long as their butt smells good, I'm in," said Johnny Depp.
Merrill Markoe
#95. I'd really like to work with Johnny Depp: he seems like a really cool guy; he can do a lot of different things.
Kodi Smit-McPhee
#96. I'm not a great pothead or anything like that ... but weed is much, much less dangerous than alcohol.
Johnny Depp
#97. I have always loved and continued to love Johnny Depp. Period. End of story.
Jennifer Nettles
#98. Marlon Brando was the absolute opposite of everything they told me he was going to be, which is that he was a testy guy who wants to know that he's in control of everything. But, that's not who Marlon was. No matter what he did, the most important thing on his mind was justice.
Johnny Depp
#99. Just keep moving forward and don't give a shit about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you.
Johnny Depp
#100. 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.
Johnny Depp
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