Johnny Depp Quotes

I can't stand not being able to joke around on set, so I have to.

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.

Better to not know which moment may be your last. Every morsel of your entire being alive to the infinite mystery of it all.

Success doesn't change you... It reveals you

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.

I'm not blockbuster boy.

I really loved the idea of playing opposite Marlon Brando and being the crazy one.

You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.

I trust kids far more than I do adults. Kids give you the honest opinion. They tell the truth.

I just watched cartoons for three years, and that had a strong affect on me.

My experience with Sondheim has been nothing but glorious, especially for a guy who doesn't sing.

An actor needs to be not remotely anywhere close to in control, and a filmmaker has to be totally in control.

Do what you really want to do. Don't play their game! Don't do what they want. Find your own way.

Every time I stand in front of mirror, I found my face too ugly, so I thought I have to get the role in some movies which cover my face with make up.

People cry, not because they're weak. It's because they've been strong for too long.

I found a girl, fell in love, she had a baby, and i fell in love again.

For the actor, The Lee Strasberg Notes are an indispensable companion.

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.

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.

We don't always cry because we are weak, sometimes we cry because we have been strong, brave and courageous for way too long.

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.

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.

I've been lucky enough to work with a make-up artist, Joel Harlow, who you can throw anything at. I said, "Joel, I need to go to the London eye with my children and I want to look like a roadie from Lynyrd Skynyrd."

[on buying a private island] Money doesn't buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it.

Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate

I'm not sure I'm adult yet.

When I'm at our house in France I totally cut myself off from the rest of the world. I never have to listen to phones ringing and that's because - and Vanessa would confirm this - phones are banned from the house. We have a beautiful life and I feel that spending time in France has just calmed me down and made me stop worrying about things which aren't really important.

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.

I've always enjoyed hiding behind these characters. It's a strange thing, you're more comfortable as a character than you are in life. I could stand up in front of, it doesn't matter how many people, as a character. But if I had to do it as myself and give a speech, I would be liquid.

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.

With every character you play, as these guys will tell you, there's a part of you goes into that in terms of the ingredients of making this stew. There's most definitely a part of me in Captain Jack and now, fortunately or unfortunately, there's a great part of Captain Jack in me as well. Basically, I can't shake him. He won't leave me alone. He just sort of keeps showing up at odd times.

People get famous now for I-don't-know-what. People have reality shows because they're a Hollywood socialite, and these things become very successful and they generate a shitload of money for the company. And it's multiplying, to where you're literally looking into your next door neighbor's bathroom with reckless abandon. It is like watching a fire. You can't take your eyes off of it.

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.

I love to smoke. I wish I had more than two hands so I can hold more cigars

I may have a feather duster down my pants.

The killing of everyone was the easy part, the most difficult part was lathering them up and shaving them, that's the part that freaked me out the most.

I toyed with the idea of what it might be like to live with some species of heatstroke that maybe didn't go away all that quickly. He's a pirate, which is about rum, sodomy and the lash, isn't it? So, to be able to keep things like that in my head, when I'm going to do a film for Disney, I'd been through the ringer. That was like infiltrating the enemy camp. I wasn't able to stop smiling.

We're all damaged in our own way. Nobody's perfect. I think we're all somewhat screwy. Every single one of us.

One of the greatest pieces of advice I've ever gotten in my life was from my mom. When I was a little kid there was a kid who was bugging me at school and she said "Okay, I'm gonna tell you what to do. If the kid's bugging you and puts his hands on you; you pick up the nearest rock.

This is a rumour-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.

Here I was going to work with Pacino thinking, "I'm not going to get lucky twice. There's no way. This guy is going to hand me my ass." He looks like the kind of guy who's going to hand you your ass. It's Al Pacino.

I started pulling gags on Al [Pachino]. That was the moment I realized that he was absolutely out of his mind. I mean that he's certifiably insane. I wouldn't spend a night in a room where he's at.

She's kind of a walking poem, she's this perfect beauty...but at the same time very deep, very smart.

When faced with two choices simply toss a coin. It works not because it settles the question for you, but because in that brief moment when the coin is in the air, you suddenly know what you are hoping for. If you love two people at the same time, choose the second one, because if you really loved the first one you wouldn't have fallen for the second.

My beef was with essentially being a product. I didn't want to be a product, so I tried to get fired, but they didn't fire me, which was weird.

If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor,' I beg you to slap me.

Tomorrow it'll all be over, then I'll have to go back to selling pens again.

You don't have to underestimate your audience anymore. They'd actually like to laugh a little bit. So, the character came to me and once it's got its grips in you, there's nowhere to go.