Johnny Depp Quotes

Once you get on the ship, everything is fine. Once you get on land, everything is not so fine.

I was never disappointed by the people I've admired. And the choices I made when I was in a position where it was do-or-die were made with my heroes in mind.

They tell you to be careful because maybe you don't want to meet your heroes. I've met pretty much every one, and I've never been let down.

You can't plan the kind of deep love that results in children. Fatherhood was not a conscious decision. It was part of the wonderful ride I was on. All the math finally worked.

For me, the question was, how can one take a live-action performance and put it in the parameter of one of those cartoons? How much can you get away with?

As a child, I certainly had a fascination with monsters and vampires.

Whenever you have a photo shoot or something like that, it’s like-you just feel dumb. It’s just so stupid.

My kids, they're my energy, my soul, and my nicest friend.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

When you realize you're essentially you're God, there ain't nothing on earth more powerful than you, you can do anything you want.

I actually tell lies for a living. Exactly. I mean, that's what acting is, really.

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

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

It's absolutely fine when Wile E. Coyote walks in with a band-aid on his head, after a 3,000-pound rock is dropped on him. That is what Ed Wood meant by the suspension of disbelief.

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

People make great films. I just don't have the eyes to watch them.

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.

Thats what a ship is, you know. Its not a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. Thats what a ship needs. But what a ship is. What the Black Pearl really is . . . is freedom.

I'd rather fight a buzzsaw than dance.

There is nothing on earth that could ever make me want to relive certain years of my life when I was young.

I don’t think of myself as being a celebrity, it’s too mortifying. I have a hard time watching myself on screen and it’s getting worse. I can’t tell whether my work is good or not.

People will say a movie bombed at the box office but I couldn't care less.

America is dumb, it's like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you, aggressive.

You're looking at each and every potential corner for an air bubble to escape. Absolutely! You're on the best of your game.

I'm not sure I'm adult yet.

I love people. And when you love people that much that you're disappointed in them every day, that love can turn to hate in a flash of a second.

For me, ambition has become a dirty word. I prefer hunger. To be hungry- great. To have hopes, dreams- great.

The only responsibility I feel is to deliver something that's new or at least to attempt that. The real responsibility is to entertain and to try and make people laugh.

I've always been frightened of karaoke, so I've never tried it. Karaoke scares the hell out of me!

I don't drink hard liquor anymore, but I sometimes order Lagavulin just for the smell. It's so good. It's unbelievable.

I'd worked with Marlon [Brando] a couple of times, and he was a practical joker. He was far more interested in getting jokes out than getting the words out. We laughed all the time.

The weirdest thing in the world is to see some guy who is just super earnest.

I'm a big fan of revenge, I think [Sweeney Todd] it's a story of a man who clearly has obsessions to avenge the horror that happened to him.

Trips to the dentist - I like to postpone that kind of thing.

Now, bring me that horizon.

My recipe for success is chance, basically. Just luck. It's a miracle that people still hire me after some of the stuff I've gotten away with. Honestly!

I've been told I smell good. I don't look like I smell good.

I 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?

I hope some day to make you all a cup of coffee. Alright, peace.

You can go out and try to do the best work that you can do within the context of what that is, but it's really gotta be about the work and what you're focusing on.

I was definitely never a crowd pleaser.

Attention is a strange sort of being, anyway, the idea of attention if someone appreciates your work. It's always nice that someone appreciates your work.

I'm not 'Blockbuster Boy.' I never wanted to be. I wasn't looking for that.

Well, having no intelligence, I'm looking forward to gaining some, whether artificial, superficial or super-duper.

If it's called a selfie, why are there people in it?

I'd get very nervous and uncomfortable in social situations and the only way I could feel at all normal was, well, to drink my guts out.