John Christopher Depp II
Johnny Depp is an American actor and musician. He is the recipient of multiple accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, and has been nominated for three Academy Awards and two BAFTA awards. (Johnny Depp Quotes)
“A dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest.”
“A mega pint??? I poured myself a large glass of wine, I thought it necessary.”
“Am I a romantic? I’ve seen ‘Wuthering Heights’ ten times. I’m a romantic.”
“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.”
“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.”
“At my very core, I’m pretty shy. I just happen to have a weird job.”
“Be crazy enough to know that you can do anything in life.”
“Being a good person doesn’t depend on your religion, your race, your skin color, or your culture. It depends on how good your heart is, and how good you treat others.”
“Breathe. It’s only a bad day, not a bad life.”
“Crazy people don’t know they’re crazy. I know I’m crazy, therefore I am not crazy. Isn’t that crazy?”
“Do what you really want to do. Don’t Play their game! Don’t do what they want. Find your own way.”
“Everything here is edible; even I’m edible. But that, dear children, is cannibalism, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies.”
“Everything is just very, very blurry. I’ve never had proper vision.”
“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.”
“I am doing things that are true to me. 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 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.”
“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 Quotes)
“I don’t trust anyone who hasn’t been self-destructive in some way. Who hasn’t gone through some sort of bout of self-loathing. You’ve got to bang yourself around a bit to know yourself.”
“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.”
“I have this fear of clowns, so I think that if I surround myself with them, it will ward off all evil.”
“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.”
“I like to create stuff, whether it’s a little doodle, a drawing, a small painting or a movie, so I suppose I’m driven by that. Everything I’ve done has felt very natural.”
“I once gave Marilyn Manson a pill so he would stop talking so much.”
“I think everybody’s weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.”
“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.”
“I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you’re on it.”
“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.”
“I try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.”
“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.”
“I was the guy who had been bouncing around the film industry for years, and I’d been lucky if five or ten people would see my movies, so Captain Jack did a big flip for my career.”
“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’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.”
“I’m having too much fun today to worry about tomorrow.”
“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 embarressed by anything I’ve done.”
“I’m shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I’ve done everything I can to avoid it.”
“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 Quotes)
“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.”
“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.”
“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 judgement on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.”
“If they let me choose between you and the dog, I’ll choose the dog.”
“If you catch me saying ‘I am a serious actor,’ I beg you to slap me.”
If you don’t like seeing pictures of violence towards animals being posted, you need to help stop the violence, not the pictures.”
“If you love two people at the same time, choose the second one, because if you really loved the first, you wouldn’t have fallen for the second.”
“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.”
“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.”
“It’s only a bad day, not a bad life.”
“Just keep moving forward and don’t give a shit about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you.”
“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.”
“Life is pretty good, and why wouldn’t it be? I’m a pirate, after all.”
“Life passes most people by while they are making plans for it.”
“Love is not blind. It simply enables one to see things others fail to see.”
“Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world.”
“Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can’t.”
“My body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story.”
“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.”
“My tremendous intuitive sense of the female creature informs me that you are troubled.”
“No survivors? Then where do the stories come from, I wonder.”
“Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate.”
“One day the people that didn’t believe in you will tell everyone how they met you.”
“People cry, not because they’re weak. It’s because they’ve been strong for too long.”
“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.”
“She’s kind of a walking poem, she’s this perfect beauty… but at the same time very deep, very smart.”
“Simplicity, that’s what I want. It’s been a rare commodity for me for a number of years.”
“Success doesn’t change you, it reveals you.”
“The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.” (Johnny Depp Quotes)
“The only reason we go for the throat is love…”
“The problem is that everybody treats teenagers like they’re stupid.”
“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.”
“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.”
“There comes a time when a good man must wear a mask.”
“There is a drive in me that will not allow me to do certain things that are easy.”
“There is nothing on earth that could ever make me want to relive certain years of my life when I was young.”
“There’s definitely healing properties to being in proximity to the ocean and that breeze. There’s something about that Caribbean climate and humidity.”
“Things in life are not always as they seem. When you listen, for instance, to someone talking, there is another voice beneath his words..even if you hear clearly what he is saying, the real truth is much deeper.”
“Tomorrow it’ll all be over, then I’ll have to go back to selling pens again.”
“We’re all damaged in our own way. Nobody’s perfect. I think we’re all somewhat screwy. Every single one of us.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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 Quotes)
“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.”
“You gotta be careful: don’t say a word to nobody about nothing anytime ever.”
“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.”
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