Selected Johnny Depp Quotes
Johnny Depp- John Christopher Depp II (born June 9, 1963) is an American actor and musician. He is the recipient of multiple awards which includes a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. He has also been nominated for three Academy Awards and two BAFTA awards.
He made his feature film debut in the horror film "A Nightmare on Elm Street" (1984) and appeared in "Platoon" (1986). He rose to fame as a teen idol on the television series 21 "Jump Street" (1987–1990). In the 1990s, he mostly acted in independent films with auteur directors, often playing eccentric characters. These films included "Cry-Baby" (1990), "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" (1993), "Benny and Joon" (1993), "Dead Man" (1995), "Donnie Brasco" (1997), and "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" (1998). He also began his longtime collaboration with the director Tim Burton. He portrayed lead roles in the films "Edward Scissorhands" (1990), "Ed Wood" (1994), and "Sleepy Hollow" (1999).
In the 2000s, he became one of the most commercially successful film stars by playing "Captain Jack Sparrow" in the Walt Disney swashbuckler film series "Pirates of the Caribbean" (2003–2017). He also received acclaim for "Chocolat" (2000), "Finding Neverland" (2004) and "Public Enemies" (2009). He also continued his commercially successful collaboration with Burton with such films as "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" (2005), "Corpse Bride" (2005), "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" (2007), and "Alice in Wonderland" (2010).
By 2012, he was one of the world's biggest film stars. He was listed by the Guinness World Records as the world's highest-paid actor, with earnings of US$75 million in a year. During the 2010s, he began producing films through his company, Infinitum Nihil. He also received acclaim for "Black Mass" (2015) and formed the rock supergroup "Hollywood Vampires" with Alice Cooper and Joe Perry. He starred as "Gellert Grindelwald" in the Wizarding World films "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" (2016) and "Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald" (2018).
Between 1998 and 2012, he was in a relationship with the French singer Vanessa Paradis, with whom he had two children, including the actress Lily-Rose Depp. From 2015 to 2017, he was married to the actress Amber Heard. Their divorce drew public attention, as both alleged abuse against each other and both engaged in highly publicized defamation cases. He ultimately won the case (Source: Wikipedia).
Selected Johnny Depp Quotes:
“If you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn't have fallen for the second.”
Johnny Depp, Love
“Am I a romantic? I've seen "Wuthering Heights" ten times. I'm a romantic.”
Johnny Depp, Love
“She's kind of a walking poem, she's this perfect beauty...but at the same time very deep, very smart.”
Johnny Depp, Love
“The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.”
Johnny Depp, Love
“Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.”
Johnny Depp, Music
“People cry, not because they are weak. It is because they've been strong for too long.”
Johnny Depp, Life
“They say the world used to be bigger. The world's still the same--there's just less in it.”
Johnny Depp, Life
“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.”
Johnny Depp, Life
“If there's any message, it is ultimately that it's okay to be different; that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.”
Johnny Depp, Life
“I always felt like I was meant to have been born in another era, another time.”
Johnny Depp, Life
“Life's pretty good, and why wouldnt it be? I'm a pirate, after all.”
Johnny Depp, Life
“When kids hit 1 year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.”
Johnny Depp, Life
“My body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story.”
Johnny Depp, Life
“We're all damaged in our own way. Nobody's perfect. I think we're all somewhat screwy. Every single one of us.”
Johnny Depp, Life
“Better to not know which moment may be your last. Every morsel of your entire being alive to the infinite mystery of it all.”
Johnny Depp, Life, Goals
“Breathe. It’s only a bad day, not a bad life.”
Johnny Depp, Life, Goals
“I suppose nowadays it's all a question of surgery, isn't it? Of course the notion is beautiful, the idea of staying a boy and a child forever, and I think you can. I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and fascination with things like little children. I think we can keep that, and I think it's important to keep that part of staying young. But I also think it's great fun growing old.”
Johnny Depp, Life, Goals
“I was always fascinated by people who are considered completely normal, because I find them the weirdest of all.”
Johnny Depp, Life, Goals
“Throughout my lifetime I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent.”
Johnny Depp, Life, Goals
“As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.”
Johnny Depp, Life, Goals
“Growing old is unavoidable, but never growing up is possible. I believe you can retain certain things from your childhood if you protect them - certain traits, certain places where you don’t let the world go.”
Johnny Depp, Life, Goals
“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.”
Johnny Depp, Life, Goals
“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.”
Johnny Depp, Life, Goals
“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...”
Johnny Depp, Life, Goals
“I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.”
Johnny Depp, Life, Goals
“Now, bring me that horizon.”
Johnny Depp, Goals
“I don't care. I'm just gonna smoke. I'm just gonna totally smoke. I'll finish these, go to the store and get a brand new pack, smoke the shit out of that one.”
Johnny Depp, Goals
“Trips to the dentist-I like to postpone that kind of thing.”
Johnny Depp, Goals
“When I see someone who just follows their dream and succeeds, and just does basically what they want to do and doesn't have to answer to anyone, obviously not harming anyone, that's great.”
Johnny Depp, Goals
“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.”
Johnny Depp, Goals
“If you catch me saying ‘I am a serious actor,’ I beg you to slap me.”
Johnny Depp, Goals
“I think the thing to do is to enjoy the ride while you're on it.”
Johnny Depp, Goals
“Just keep moving forward and don't give a shit about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you.”
Johnny Depp, Goals
“I try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.”
Johnny Depp, Goals
“You gotta be careful: don't say a word to nobody about nothing anytime ever.”
Johnny Depp, Goals
“I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.”
Johnny Depp, Goals, Problems
“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.”
Johnny Depp, Goals, Love
“I don't think anybody's necessarily ready for death. You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you've said what you wanted to say. Nobody wants to go out in mid- sentence.”
Johnny Depp, Death
“France and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing, though, is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.”
Johnny Depp, Society
“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.”
Johnny Depp, Society
“Everything here is edible; even I'm edible. But that, dear children, is cannibalism, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies.”
Johnny Depp, Society
“I think everybody's nuts.”
Johnny Depp, Society
“America is dumb. It's like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you, aggressive. My daughter is four, my boy is one. I'd like them to see America as a toy, a broken toy. Investigate it a little, check it out, get this feeling and then get out.”
Johnny Depp, Society, Goals
“The problem is that everybody treats teenagers like they're stupid.”
Johnny Depp, Society, Problems
“Over the years all these vampire movies have come out and nobody looks like a vampire anymore.”
Johnny Depp, Art
“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.”
Johnny Depp, Art
“I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do.”
Johnny Depp, Art
“I was ecstatic when they re-named "French fries" as "freedom fries." Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.”
Johnny Depp, Government
“I'm having too much fun today to worry about tomorrow.”
Johnny Depp, Happiness
“[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.”
Johnny Depp, Wealth
“Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate”
Johnny Depp, Wealth
“I don't know if you remember me, but I used to work here in the factory." Were you one of those despicable spies who every day tried to steal my life's work and sell it to those paraseeded cop cat, candy making cads?"
No sir!"
Then wonderful, welcome back!”
Johnny Depp, Work
“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.”
Johnny Depp, Funny
“It's awful bad luck to bring a woman aboard the ship."
"It's awful worse luck not to.”
Johnny Depp, Sex
“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.”
Johnny Depp, Success
“That pipe, just so happens to lead to the room where I make the most delicious flavored chocolate covered fudge."
Then he will be made into strawberry flavoered chocolate covered fudge, they'll be selling him by the pound, all over the world!"
No, I wouldn't allow it. The taste would be terrible. Can you imagine Augustus flavored chocolate covered gloop? Ew. No one would buy it.”