“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.”
― Johnny Depp
“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
“There’s definitely healing properties to being in proximity to the ocean and that breeze. There’s something about that Caribbean climate and humidity.”
― Johnny Depp
“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.”
― Johnny Depp
“Simplicity – that’s what I want. It’s been a rare commodity for me for a number of years, but I enjoy being able to hang out with my girl, read the newspaper, and sit back and start to read a book by someone I admire, like Lawrence Krauss or Christopher Hitchens. And that’s it – simplicity, where the game of Hollywood doesn’t exist.”
― Johnny Depp
“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.”
― Johnny Depp
“I’ve never felt particularly ambitious or driven, that’s for sure, although I like to create stuff, whether it’s a little doodle, a drawing, a small painting or a movie or a piece of music, so I suppose I’m driven by that. Everything I’ve done has felt very natural, and it’s happened because it’s happened.”
― Johnny Depp
“America is dumb. It’s like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you – aggressive. My daughter is four; my boy is one. I’d like them to see America as a toy – a broken toy. Investigate it a little, check it out, get this feeling, and then get out.”
― Johnny Depp
“I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.”
― Johnny Depp
“One of the most beautiful things in the world is seeing a mommy with her kids. There’s nothing more beautiful, nothing more sublime.”
― Johnny Depp
“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.”
― Johnny Depp
“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.”
― Johnny Depp
“I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.”
― Johnny Depp
“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.”
― Johnny Depp
“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
“Escapism is survival to me.”
― Johnny Depp
“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.”
― Johnny Depp
“Trips to the dentist – I like to postpone that kind of thing.”
― Johnny Depp
“I have this fear of clowns, so I think that if I surround myself with them, it will ward off all evil.”
― Johnny Depp
“I’ll take photographs with kids. People who want to take photographs with me. People who like the movies. People who supported me. I’ll do that all day, all night, that’s fine. But the bombardment of the paparazzi is just… I truly don’t understand. It just feels like this kind of gluttonous, horrific sport. It’s like sport.”
― Johnny Depp
“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.”
― Johnny Depp
“When I played Tonto in ‘The Lone Ranger’ and was playing the older Tonto, I would just leave the makeup on and go to sleep because it was a four or five hour job; it was, from the waist up, all over me.”
― Johnny Depp
“The only gossip I’m interested in is things from the Weekly World News – ‘Woman’s bra bursts, 11 injured’. That kind of thing.”
― Johnny Depp
“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
“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.”
― Johnny Depp
“I don’t pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do.”
― Johnny Depp
“I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you’re on it.”
― Johnny Depp
“The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.”
― Johnny Depp
“I’m shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I’ve done everything I can to avoid it.”
― Johnny Depp
“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.”
― Johnny Depp
“Life’s pretty good, and why wouldn’t it be? I’m a pirate, after all.”
― Johnny Depp
“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.”
― Johnny Depp
“I have a place that I get to go to in the Bahamas. It’s the only place that guarantees total anonymity and freedom.”
― Johnny Depp
“I was a million percent in love with Edward Scissorhands. I remember looking in the mirror on the last day of shooting… and thinking how sad I was to be saying goodbye to Edward.”
― Johnny Depp
“Everything is just very, very blurry. I’ve never had proper vision.”
― Johnny Depp
“Puberty was very vague. I literally locked myself in a room and played guitar.”
― Johnny Depp
“I started out printing silk screen t-shirts. I sold ink pens. I worked construction. I worked at a gas station. I pumped gas. I was a mechanic for a little bit. I went into sewers, down into sewer lines. I had a lot of somewhat unpleasant gigs for a time there.”
― Johnny Depp
“You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren’t allowed to be normal.”
― Johnny Depp
“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.”
― Johnny Depp
“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
“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.”
― Johnny Depp
“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.”
― Johnny Depp
“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
“Captain Jack Sparrow is like a cross between Keith Richards and Pepe Le Pew.”
― Johnny Depp
“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.”
― Johnny Depp
“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
“I hate watching myself on screen. I can’t stand it.”
― Johnny Depp
“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.”
― Johnny Depp
“I marketed pens – on the phone. But the beauty of the gig was that you had to call these strangers and say, ‘Hi, how ya doing?’ You made up a name, like, ‘Hey, it’s Edward Quartermaine from California. You’re eligible to receive this grandfather clock or a trip to Tahiti.’ You promise them all these things if they buy a gross of pens.”
― Johnny Depp
“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.”
― Johnny Depp
“When my daughter was ill in Great Ormond Street, it was the darkest period of my life.”
― Johnny Depp
“There’s no truth anymore.”
― Johnny Depp
“At my very core, I’m pretty shy. I just happen to have a weird job.”
― Johnny Depp
“I always wanted to be a character actor rather than the poster boy that they tried to make me 100 years ago. An actor has a degree of responsibility to change for the audience, to give them something new each time, to surprise and not bore them.”
― Johnny Depp
“I did do a film that I refer to as ‘The Unpronounceable’ by a guy named Yvan Attal with Charlotte Gainsbourg. I had a bit part in there. That was quite fun, doing scenes in French.”
― Johnny Depp
“Wes Craven was the guy who gave me my start, from my perspective, for almost no reason in particular.”
― Johnny Depp
“My favorite color is black.”
― Johnny Depp
“There’s a drive in me that won’t allow me to do certain things that are easy.”
― Johnny Depp
“I still approach a scene as one would approach a solo. There’s nothing set or pat.”
― Johnny Depp
“I’m always for the Indian in the cowboy movie. Always.”
― Johnny Depp
“I’m not Blockbuster Boy.”
― Johnny Depp
“Over the years all these vampire movies have come out and nobody looks like a vampire anymore.”
― Johnny Depp
“It’s an odd thing when there is a fan page for my daughter who is not yet 13.”
― Johnny Depp
“People will say a movie bombed at the box office but I couldn’t care less.”
― Johnny Depp
“It’s been insane. From Whitey Bulger to the Mad Hatter, you can imagine the schizophrenia.”
― Johnny Depp
“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
“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.”
― Johnny Depp
“It’s very, very important to me, no matter who the person is, to play that person with the utmost degree of truth that I’m able to bring. But playing a character like Jack Sparrow or Willy Wonka, that requires nothing but a degree of responsibility to the intent of the story – responsibility to the film-maker to deliver the goods.”
― Johnny Depp
“Music is still part of my life, but I hate the idea of people coming to see me play the guitar because they’ve seen me in movies. You want people who are listening to be only interested in the music.”
― Johnny Depp
“I want to be Ruler of the Exumas. I like the sound of it. I want to become Kurtz and live like in ‘Lord of the Flies.’”
― Johnny Depp
“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.”
― Johnny Depp
“With Ed Wood, it was this sort of blending of Ronald Reagan, the Tin Man from ‘The Wizard of Oz,’ and Casey Kasem.”
― Johnny Depp
“Nobody’s ever made a film in the history of cinema where they weren’t expecting some return on their dough.”
― Johnny Depp
“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
“When I met people they said, ‘You do look like a hobo, but you smell really good.’”
― Johnny Depp
“I think everybody’s nuts.”
― Johnny Depp
“I was the guy who had been bouncing around the film industry for years, and I’d been lucky if five or 10 people would see my movies, so Captain Jack did a big flip for my career.”
― Johnny Depp
“The idea of dancing is the only thing that scares me.”
― Johnny Depp
“Am I a romantic? I’ve seen ‘Wuthering Heights’ ten times. I’m a romantic.”
― Johnny Depp
“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.”
― Johnny Depp
“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.”
― Johnny Depp
“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
“I’m not sure I’m adult yet.”
― Johnny Depp
“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.”
― Johnny Depp
“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
“I may have a feather duster down my pants.”
― Johnny Depp
“Tomorrow it’ll all be over, then I’ll have to go back to selling pens again.”
― Johnny Depp
“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
“If you catch me saying ‘I am a serious actor’, I beg you to slap me.”
― Johnny Depp
“The term ‘serious actor’ is kind of an oxymoron, isn’t it? Like ‘Republican party’ or ‘airplane food.’”
― Johnny Depp
“There is nothing on earth that could ever make me want to relive certain years of my life when I was young.”
― Johnny Depp
“I don’t want to run around and look at a shot through a monitor. That doesn’t improve what I’m trying to do. I figure, once I’ve done my job, it’s none of my business.”
― Johnny Depp
“I’d rather fight a buzzsaw than dance.”
― Johnny Depp
“I started out as a guitarist in the early ’80s.”
― Johnny Depp
“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.”
― Johnny Depp
“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
“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
“I’ve had some rank auditions where I embarrassed myself to new heights, which is hard for me to do. I was never good at auditioning. There are a number of actors over the years come up the ranks who are horrific at auditioning.”
― Johnny Depp
“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.”
― Johnny Depp
“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.”
― Johnny Depp
“You start getting hit with some very interesting situations in life – you as a parent – when they approach that teenage area, which is frightening because you still have memories of that age and the things you were doing at that age… Please don’t do what I did.”
― Johnny Depp
“There are times when you see how ridiculous is this life, how ludicrous it is, you know, leaving your house every morning and being followed by paparazzi.”
― Johnny Depp
“I never wanted to be the guy people looked at. I don’t think of myself as being a celebrity; it’s too mortifying.”
― Johnny Depp
“There’s an innocence to Ozzy Osbourne. He’s mingling, but he’s somewhat detached.”
― Johnny Depp
“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
“My job, as an actor, is to give the director options. You can only hope that the takes that you thought were the best were chosen. But, then again, if I don’t watch it, I’ll never know.”
― Johnny Depp
“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.”
― Johnny Depp
“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.”
― Johnny Depp
“’Edward Scissorhands’ was tough to let go of because I found real safety in allowing myself to be that open, that honest. To explore purity. It was a hard one to walk away from.”
― Johnny Depp
“When you’re doing a movie, your body doesn’t allow you to get sick until you finish.”
― Johnny Depp
“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.”
― Johnny Depp
“I moved from Kentucky to Miramar, Florida, at about 8. I think I was in second grade. I still had my Southern accent, and down there, you got to experience a melting pot in full fury. All the kids I hung out with were, like, Sicilian kids from Jersey and New York.”
― Johnny Depp
“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.”
― Johnny Depp
“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.’”
― Johnny Depp
“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
“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.”
― Johnny Depp
“I’m doing a film called ‘Black Mass’ where I play James Bulger. The reason to play him is obvious to me. He’s a fascinating character. It’s not like anything I’ve done before on that level. I’m very excited to slide into that skin for a little bit.”
― Johnny Depp
“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
“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.”
― Johnny Depp
“What I love to do is paint people’s faces, y’know, their eyes. Because you want to find that emotion, see what’s going on behind their eyes.”
― Johnny Depp
“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.”
― Johnny Depp
“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.”
― Johnny Depp
“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
“I went through various stages in my childhood, as we all do, various stages of obsessions with people and things. And I did. I wanted to be the first white Harlem Globetrotter.”
― Johnny Depp
“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
“When I was 12, I wanted to learn how to play the guitar, and I found a chord book in a shop, and I stuffed it down my trousers. And that’s how I learned to play the guitar.”
― Johnny Depp
“There’s always that moment on every movie where you just go, ‘Okay, this is that moment. I’m about to potentially fall flat on my face, and I might as well just dive in and see what happens.’”
― Johnny Depp
“I think, as an actor, it is good to feel the fear of failing miserably. I think you should take that risk. Fear is a necessary ingredient in everything I do. But if I do ‘Hamlet,’ it will probably be in a small theater on a small stage, and it will have to be very, very soon because I’m getting a little long in the tooth for it.”
― Johnny Depp
“When you disrespect Australian law, they will tell your firmly. Declare everything when you enter Australia.”
― Johnny Depp
“I don’t go anywhere without a book by James Joyce called ‘Finnegan’s Wake.’”
― Johnny Depp
“When you’re confined to a TV series, and you have to play one character, it can make you insane. But it didn’t affect me. I got out in time.”
― Johnny Depp
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