Johnny Depp Quotes (116 Quotes)


    My performance is like a love letter to Tim.

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

    ...What I like does tend to be left-field. I feel somehow much more comfortable playing it. I relate more easily than I do when I run across straight roles. I hate the obvious stuff, I just don't respond to it.

    With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

    We're in the middle of a divorce D-I-V-O-R-C-E DEE-VORCE


    Tim's vision is always amazing, beyond anything you expect, ... If Tim wanted to shoot 18 million feet of film of me staring into a light bulb and I couldn't blink for three months, I'd do it.

    It was really just whatever - good times, bad times, it didn't matter. There was no ceremony. It wasn't like 'Okay, this just happened, I have to go hack a piece of my flesh off.'

    Every time I see him, he threatens to do something. I just saw him last night. I'd love to do it againwell, I don't want to do that again. If there's any way to avoid the curse, that would be better. I'd love to do the film, if at all possible, and I stress that 'if at all possible' because it was really going to be good, that was the thing we all felt. It was really sad. It was really going to be good, like the best of Terry Gilliam. I felt really good about my character, and the good news is that if he wants to go back and do that, I already know the character, so I have less homework to do.

    I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do.

    I should be committed to an institution immediately for even thinking I could get away with that. These two things are opposing, they oppose one another. To be a director you have to be in complete control of the set, complete control of the surroundings, and very aware of what's going on, what's being used and what's not being used... It's insanity. To be an actor you have to be, in a sense, out of control.

    A few people have mentioned it, and it kind of took me by surprise. I really didn't expect that, ... Michael Jackson was not a sort of ingredient or inspiration for the character at all.

    It's fun to imagine what you could do with that kind of money. I could buy that island I've wanted to buy all my life, and live there with my family. Or I could buy some great piece of art that's just going to feed my eyes every day. It's fun to toy with the notion of that, and it is very tempting because money, unfortunately is freedom in today's world.

    That's the interesting thing about becoming a father. Suddenly you universally have something in common with other people. I can be sitting next to a very straight, humorless businessman or stockbroker type on an airplane and we'll just start talking about kids. And that conversation last three or four hours.

    I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you're on it.

    The screenplay was the first thing that attracted me to the film, I just thought it was such a well written story. It had a lot of twists and turns that I didn't expect. I was really impressed with it.

    The first thing that went through my mind was I was concerned for her, hoping that she was OK and that she and her baby were OK,


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