Quotes

Over the years, and just like all celebrities, Johnny Depp has been in a lot of interviews. On this page you can find some of his most famous quotes. Put together, they should give you an insight into the person behind th d7i1j9 e actor … this is the way he thinks!

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„Good morning starshine, the Earth says hello!“
„May the wind always be on your back and the sun upon your face and may the winds of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars.“
„ I would do anything Tim (Burton) wanted me to. You know - have sex with an aardvark… I would do it.“
„Unless he knew you wouldn`t believe the truth even if he told it to you.“
„Fortunately I know how to counter it, the man who did the waking buys the man who was sleeping a drink. The man who was sleeping drinks it while listening to a proposition, from the man who did the waking.“
„I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.“
„One of the most incredible moments I`ve ever had was sitting in Vincent [Price]`s trailer… I was showing him this first-edition book I have of the complete works of Poe, with really amazing illustrations.
Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis

Vincent was going nuts over the drawings, and he…“
„(When asked why he hides his box office good looks behind strange wigs, fake teeth, and girly squeals) “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 g…“
„All the amazing people that I`ve worked with - Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman - have told me consistently: don`t compromise. Do your work, and if what you`re giving is not what they want, you have to be prepared to walk away.“
„Marlon Brando is maybe the greatest actor of the last two centuries. But his mind is much more important than the acting thing. The way that he looks at things, doesn`t judge things, the way that he assesses things. He`s as important as, uh… who`s impor…“
„There`s nothing - you know - nothing else like music. Nothing that touches us on that, uh, that deep level. Music can open up so many emotions that we didn`t know we had. It`s the magical thing about musicals, you know, on the stage or on film or whatever…“
„If you turn on the television and see the horrors that are happening to people in the world right now, I think there`s no better time to strive to have some kind of hope through imagination. I think it`s a time to close your eyes and try to make a change,…“
„Sure, I find it touching, honestly, but awards are not as important to me as when I meet a 10-year-old kid who says, `I love Captain Jack Sparrow` … That`s real magic for me.“
„He can ask me everything. If he wants me to have sex with an aardvark in one of his next movies, then I will do that. - on director Tim Burton.“
„The only gossip I`m interested in is things from the Weekly World News - `Woman`s bra bursts, 11 injured.` That kind of thing.“
„Marlon wanted me to escape movies for a while - `Take a year off. Go on. Study Shakespeare.` So it`s one of the things that keep ricocheting around in my head. He told me that by the time he had got to the point where he felt he could do Hamlet, it was to…“
„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.“
„I love our house in the country. I can walk to the nearby village and have a coffee and no one pays any notice. I`m just another dad with my daughter on my knee. The time I`ve spent in France with Vanessa has solidified my belief that I can keep a major d…“
„There`s a drive in me that won`t allow me to do certain things that are easy. I can weigh all the options, but there`s always one thing that goes: “Johnny, this is the one.” And it`s always the most difficult - it`s always the one that will cause the most…“
„We had been shooting Charlie for about a month, and I was beginning to get nervous because there weren`t any phone calls. I called my agent and asked, Has no one called from the studio to complain or say, `Hey, what`s he doing?` or `Hey, he`s freaking us …“
„I started out as a guitarist in the early Eighties. I hooked up with a guy who idolized James Dean and he gave me a copy of the Dean biography, `The Mutant King`, which I thought was really interesting. While reading the book, I watched Rebel Without a Ca…“
„This is a rumor-filled society and if people want to sit around and talk about whom I`ve dated, then I`d say they have a lot of spare time and should consider other topics… or masturbation.“
„I loved playing Edward Scissorhands because there`s nothing cynical, jaded or impure about him. It`s almost a letdown to look in the mirror and realize I`m not Edward.“
„After being asked if he is a romantic: “Am I a romantic? I`ve seen `Wuthering Heights` ten times. I`m a romantic.”
„What more can I say about him? He is a brother, a friend, my godson`s father. He is a unique and brave soul, someone that I would go to the ends of the earth for, and I know, full and well, he would do the same for me. - on director Tim Burton“
„What I said was, the United States of America is a young country compared to Europe, compared to, you know, other countries. We`re young. We`re 200 and something years old.“
„Well, there was a great book I read. . . . What was it called? Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition. A very interesting book. I wasn`t exactly going for that with the character. And Keith is not flamboyant in his actions. Keith is pretty stealth. But with Jack…“
„I can remember when I finished `Edward Scissorhands,` looking in the mirror as the girl was doing my make-up for the last time and thinking — it was like the 90th or 89th day of shooting — and I remember looking and going, `Wow, this is it. I`m saying g…“
„Having kids was a huge change for me. Becoming a father. But I think more than changing, I feel like I`ve been revealed to myself, I kind of found out who I was. When you meet your child for the first time and you`re looking at this angel, you start reali…“
„(About Pirates of the Caribbean) It was mentioned that they were considering a movie based on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, and I said I was in. There was no screenplay, no director, nothing. For some unknown reason, I just said I was in.“
„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.“
„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 ge…“
„(On being an uncle) My sister Christi had a baby when I was 17, and I had just heard about crib death. The horrible thing was that it wasn`t understood. For some unknown reason the baby would stop breathing. So I would sneak into where the baby was sleepi…“
„I don`t pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do.“
„I don`t have a mental picture of the houses we lived in because there were so many.“
„I suppose nowadays it`s all a question of surgery, isn`t it? Of course the notion is beautiful, the idea of staying a boy and a child forever, and I think you can. I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the…“
„(On preparing to sing as Sweeney Todd) It`s a bit like jumping into cold water. There`s no preparing, you just do it.“
„All the little films I`ve done that were perceived by Hollywood as these obscure, weird things, I always thought could appeal to a larger audience. I mean, box office is such a mystery to me that I can`t… you know… I have enough -trouble doing my own …“
„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.“
„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.“
„Talking on the Sleepy Hollow (1999) set about what it was like being dragged behind a carriage in the woods: “I wasn`t afraid of getting hurt. I was just afraid that the horses may relieve themselves on the journey.“
„Taken in context, what I was saying was that, compared to Europe, America is a very young country and we are still growing as a nation. It is a shame that the metaphor I used was taken so radically out of context and slung about irresponsibly by the news …“
„I was ecstatic when 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.“
„The term `serious actor` is kind of an oxymoron, isn`t it? (Like) `Republican party` (or) `airplane food.`“
„The character I`ve played, that I`ve responded to, there has been a lost-soul quality to them.“
„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.“
„On his character in the film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003): “Captain Jack Sparrow is like a cross between Keith Richards and Pepe Le Pew.“
„(About Pirates of the Caribbean) I only wanted to be in a movie that my kids could see.“
„On the money he makes: “You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren`t allowed to be normal.“
„(About girlfriend Vanessa Paradis) I pretty much fell in love with Vanessa the moment I set eyes on her. As a person, I was pretty much a lost cause at that time in my life. She turned all that around for me with her incredible tenderness and understandin…“
„I had never experienced that before. And it`s been fun to visit Hollywood and talk to studios as a bankable actor for a change.“
„On his daughter, Lily-Rose: “I see this amazing, beautiful, pure angel-thing wake up in the morning, and nothing can touch that. She is the only reason to wake up in the morning, the only reason to take a breath. Everything else is checkers.“
„I`m shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I`ve done everything I can to avoid it.“
„When asked by James Lipton on _”Inside The Actor`s Studio” (1987)_what attracts him to funny hats: “I don`t know, maybe I just read too much Dr. Seuss as a kid.“
„I`ve been around long enough to know that one week, you`re on the exclusive list of guys who can open a movie, and then the next week, you`re off the list. It`s been a fun ride, and I`m enjoying it for all it`s worth.“
„(On reactions to his directorial debut) “You know what was traumatizing, what was very, very strange in terms of this film I directed a few years back called The Brave. Well, I guess I wouldn`t say traumatizing, but I would say weird: at the premiere of t…“
„(on Gene Wilder`s comment on the remake of Willy Wonka) “Hearing about that was disappointing, but I can understand where he`s coming from, I guess. The one thing I didn`t understand was that apparently he was quoted as saying `Well, they just did this fo…“
„Anything I`ve done up till 27 May, 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.“
„When kids hit 1 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.“
„You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren`t allowed to be normal.“
„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.“
„Trips to the dentist - I like to postpone that kind of thing.“
„Tomorrow it`ll all be over, then I`ll have to go back to selling pens again.“
„There`s a drive in me that won`t allow me to do certain things that are easy.“
„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.“
„There are four questions of value in life… What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.“
„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.“
„The only gossip I`m interested in is things from the Weekly World News - `Woman`s bra bursts, 11 injured`. That kind of thing.“
„The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.“
„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.“
„Life`s pretty good, and why wouldn`t it be? I`m a pirate, after all.“
„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.“
„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.“
„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 …“
„I`m shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I`ve done everything I can to avoid it.“
„I`m not sure I`m adult yet.
„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.“
„I think the thing to do is to enjoy the ride while you`re on it.“
„I think everybody`s nuts.“
„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.“
„I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.“
„I may have a feather duster down my pants.“
„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.“
„I don`t pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do.“
„I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.“
„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.“
„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.“
„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.“
„Am I a romantic? I`ve seen Wuthering Heights ten times. I`m a romantic.“