You always miss them [characters you've played] once you've walked away, but part of them always stays with you too.
Johnny DeppI 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 DeppAny character that you come up with or create is a piece of you. You're putting yourself into that character, but there's the guise of the character. So there's a certain amount of safety in the character, where you feel more safe being the character than you do being just you
Johnny DeppThere may be something in the fact that when I was a little kid I'd been told growing up that we had some degree of native American blood in us, I always found that a point of pride. So, when it came to cowboys and Indians I most certainly did not want to be John Wayne. I wanted to be one of the Indians.
Johnny Depp