It was great to do August Rush and have all the challenges of playing that character, especially the American accent for the first time and also playing the guitar and the conducting I had to do.

I have a younger brother.

I like all sorts of chocolate. Milk chocolate, dark chocolate, anything.

When you're happy you don't always have to be laughing, and when you're sad you don't have to be crying; sometimes it's the opposite. You laugh when you're the most upset.

I always try doing a different character for every film so it's not just changing one.

Also "Catcher in the Rye", which happens to be one of my favorite books, I just found that kind of useful. It helps you get into the American accent.

People build up a picture of Johnny Depp as being some sort of weird pirate character. In reality he's incredibly nice... one of the nicest people I've ever met.

Today the sort of thing for a guy in England growing up is that you have to suppress all your emotions. It's almost like you have to sit back and be cool.

Scary is good. Kids like going to a movie and being really scared rather than fake scared.

We live alone, we die alone. Everything else is just an illusion.

For every different role you play it's nice to have different challenges for each one.

That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics.

Charm is that extra quality that defies description.

I've been lucky. I'll be lucky again.

A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.

Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artist’s hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed

There is evidence that young men in the big law firms, although they still work harder than most of their clients, do not glory in putting in night work and weekend hours as they once did.

What religion is he of? Why, he is an Anythingarian.

I have yet to hear of anyone who, on his deathbed, wished he'd spent more time at the office.

Parents must refuse to cooperate with any psychological evaluation of their children in school.

Nothing is uglier than the sinner, nothing so leprous or fetid; the scar of his crimes is still raw, and he stinks like the cave of Hell.