Johnny Depp Quotes

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.

I found the evil in myself a long time ago, and I've accepted it. We're old friends.

It's amazing when you get to a certain age, and you talk about sleep in the same way you spoke about getting inebriated... I got eight hours last night. It was fantastic!

I wasn't into the lunchbox and thermos ski slope, and that's where I was going.

The idea of directing a film is a strange one for me. I feel anti-mathematical, in a way, in that sense. I don't like when things make sense. I prefer if they don't.

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.

I think, for me as an actor, if you get to a place where you're satisfied, you're happy with it, then you're dead. It's over. You're not hungry anymore. You won't try things anymore.

I'm not even born yet. I'm still trying. I'm still pushing. I don't ever want to get to a place where I feel satisfied.

You always miss them [characters you've played] once you've walked away, but part of them always stays with you too.

I can't tell my self that I'm a serious actor. But I'm serious person.

I just happen to be a sucker for humor. So anywhere I can sneak in something that I find potentially interesting or funny I do it as much as I can get away with.

I really love the experience of moving things around, in terms of being a director.

The ultimate for me would be to do a feature that didn't require any narrative structure.

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.

Any man who had to carry a child would cave in around month two.

Religion is a fascinating black hole to me.

I think kids, in general as an audience, are the way forward because they're not sort of sullied by intellectual expectation or this or that. It's a very pure kind of response to the work.

As you get older, you recognize the erotic nature of the vampire and the idea of the undead.

Luckily I am very, very privileged and feel very lucky to be getting work and my kiddies are not feeling the brunt of any kind of horror that's going on today. So I'm super lucky.

I mean, I think everybody should probably approach a film that it's another unwanted thing. That's going to be seared onto my brain for the rest of my life. Thank you for that.

I literally went from being unable to play my rent to being on a plane the next day, being paid peanuts.

There's no truth anymore.

I'm all for whatever it takes to get wherever you need to get with a character, as long as you don't wipe it on me.

I condition myself to believe that once the scene is done, once the movie is done, my job is done, and whatever happens after that is none of my business.

Kids accept a lot more, and they buy it, because they're free.

At Last My Arm Is Completee Again XD

I don't do well with modern films, to be honest. Opening credits, and I'm just gone.

If you had to chose one half of your son, which one would it be?" What kind of a question is that?!" No need to snap. It was just a question.

other kids pack lunch

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.

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.

It's an odd thing when there is a fan page for my daughter who is not yet 13.

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.

Some filmmakers go into a film and it's already shot and cut in their head.

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

An actor shouldn't have to leave the set and go home and write a bunch of stuff for a bunch of other people, the next day. I found it very unpleasant.

Everything here is edible; even I'm edible. But that, dear children, is cannibalism, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies.

I was never a cokehead or anything like that. I always despised that drug. I thought it was a waste of time, pointless.

It's impossible to consider myself a producer. I can barely produce an English muffin, in the morning.

Every filmmaker's different, every filmmaker has a different approach.

The idea of dancing is the only thing that scares me.

Marlon [Brando] showed me that you could do the work and not have to shut yourself off from people or your family.

Pretty much any drug you can name, I've done it.

The challenge for me is still to do something that hasn't been beaten into the movie going consciousness. Otherwise what am I in it for?

It's awful bad luck to bring a woman aboard the ship." "It's awful worse luck not to.

I love the idea of changing my look. I think one owes it to the audience, to go out there and give them something different each time, so as not to bore them to death.

I have toyed with the idea of playing it straight. But, like I say, I really believe we are all out of our minds at some level.

When I got the job, I was sure that I wasn't going to get the job because Tom Cruise almost got the job.

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.

With every part you act, there must be a little of yourself in it. If there isn't, it's not acting. It's lying.