Johnny depp quotes

Do what you really want to do. Don't play their game! Don't do what they want. Find your own way.

No one wants to go out mid-sentence.

I've never been particularly ambitious. I'm driven by the moment.

The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing.

They’re all about where people come from. The only thing important is where somebody’s going.

Better to not know which moment may be your last. Every morsel of your entire being alive to the infinite mystery of it all.

[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.

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

There's a drive in me that won't allow me to do certain things that are easy.

You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.

If they let me choose between you and the dog, I'll choose the dog.

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.

People cry, not because they're weak. It's because they've been strong for too long.

I do trust women. I have a lot of women in my life. I have a mother. I have a woman. There's a lot of women around me. And I do trust them. And they trust me, as far as I know.

I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.

There's no truth anymore.

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

I would give everything if I could only keep my family.

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

Jesus, music has always been my first love. I use music in my work because it's the fastest way to an emotional place. You hear a song, and that memory comes right back-- you're there... Making music is immediate, and it's all about you. If you're playing guitar, the feeling comes through-- the way you bend the note, the intensity with which you hit the strings. With making films, although it's real emotion, it's false emotion. You're lying.

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

There come a time, when good man must wear mask.

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.

Obviously, technology is moving and reshaping itself, radically, every day. We're all capable of answering that question within ourselves. Would you do it for the person that you love? Would you be married to a hard drive, essentially?

If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK 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.

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

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.

Love is not blind; it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.

The birth of my daughter, gave me life.

I know exactly what I want. Everything. Calm, peace, tranquility, freedom, fun, happiness. If I could make all that one word, I would - a many-syllabled word.

I'm attracted to the extreme light and the extreme dark. I'm interested in the human condition and what makes people tick. I'm interested in the things people try to hide.

And it hurts so much to want something you can't have.

She's kind of a walking poem, she's this perfect beauty...but at the same time very deep, very smart.

Success doesn't change you... It reveals you

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.

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.

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.

I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.

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.

The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.

They say the world used to be bigger. The world's still the same--there's just less in it.

Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate

Keep moving forward and do what you have to do for you.

I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.

Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.

I don't like watching myself in the movies because I don't like being aware of the product. I like the process. I enjoy that.

It's important to keep challenging myself and try to come up with some new face every now and again.

Most people are really nuts and that's fascinating to me.

All men would be cowards if they only had the courage.

Me and music. Music was always my first love. It was my first love for sure. And still is a huge part of my life.

They (the people of Puerto Rico) are truly the sweetest people on earth.

Sometimes I feel like I'm possessed with a multitude of demons.

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

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.

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.

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

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!

One day, the people that didn't believe in you will tell everyone how they met you.

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.

I try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.

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.

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?

We're all damaged in our own way. Nobody's perfect. I think we're all somewhat screwy. Every single one of us.

If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.

I'm having too much fun today to worry about tomorrow.

I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.

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

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

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.

You gotta be careful: don't say a word to nobody about nothing anytime ever.

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.

Even when you're down and blue, just remember that someone out there loves you, even if you don't know it and even if you haven't yet met them. There's someone out there waiting for you, remember that and keep faith. You'll get there.

I'm scared of boogers. If anyone ever showed me a booger I'd smash their face in.

If you fall in love with 2 people at once choose the second one because if you truly loved the first one you never would have fell in love with the second one

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.

The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.

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

I was poisoning myself with alcohol and medicating myself. I was trying to numb things. I was trying not to feel things, and that's ridiculous. It's one of the dumbest things you can do, because all you're doing is postponing the inevitable. Someday you'll have to look all those things in the eye rather than try to numb the pain.

Any character that you come up with or create is a piece of you. You're putting yourself into that character, but there's the guise of the character. So there's a certain amount of safety in the character, where you feel more safe being the character than you do being just you

Every relationship has problems but when those problems arise you have to realise that they don't mean your relationship is broken, it's just a little bent. Bent things can be fixed and like so your relationship can too. The first step however is realising that.

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

When you play a character that exists or existed, there's a stronger responsibility that you have. You owe that person and then you owe the family, you owe history, you owe the victims, the victims' families.

Every time I stand in front of mirror, I found my face too ugly, so I thought I have to get the role in some movies which cover my face with make up.

School's a weird thing. I'm not sure it works.

We don't always cry because we are weak, sometimes we cry because we have been strong, brave and courageous for way too long.

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?

When faced with two choices simply toss a coin. It works not because it settles the question for you, but because in that brief moment when the coin is in the air, you suddenly know what you are hoping for. If you love two people at the same time, choose the second one, because if you really loved the first one you wouldn't have fallen for the second.

I was always fascinated by people who are considered completely normal, because I find them the weirdest of all

I don't trust anyone who hasn't been self-destructiv e in some way, and who hasn't gone through some sort of bout of self-loathing. You've got to bang yourself around a bit to know yourself.

I was ecstatic 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.

As soon as we fall in love and we realise we've met the one the rest of our lives can't come soon enough. It's not like you're in a rush to get to the finish line, you're in a rush to feel and experience everything and then do it all again.

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

I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.

If there is any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's ok to be different.

For me, it's always more difficult and slightly exposing to play something that's close to yourself. I always like to try to hide, just because I can't stand the way I look. But, I think it's important to change every time and come up with something that's as interesting as it can be, for your characters.

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.

Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.

It's a great honor that something that you took part in creating becomes this forever object.

Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.

A dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest.

Now, bring me that horizon.

My children's favorite, and it's funny because they've seen it but they have a difficult time watching it because it's their dad and they make that connection, but Edward Scissorhands is by far my kids' favorite. They just connect with the character, and they see their dad feeling that isolation, that loneliness. He's a tragic character, so I think it's hard for them. They bawl.

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

The problem is that everybody treats teenagers like they're stupid.

If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor,' I beg you to slap me.

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

If I can avoid the mirror when I brush my teeth in the morning, I will. I find security and safety in the most profound degree of ignorance. If you can just stay ignorant of almost everything you'll be OK. It's fine to stay informed and look at things, but to judge things will bog you down.

My body is a journal in a way. It's like what sailors used to do, where every tattoo meant something, a specific time in your life when you make a mark on yourself, whether you do it yourself with a knife or with a professional tattoo artist.

My body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story.

Knowing that a great bit of the technology is active and actually happening, and that the technology that we're talking about, in terms of uploading a human consciousness, is probably not all that far away, to be honest. Indeed, it will happen. It's pretty close.

People in life, when they have a tendency to exaggerate or lie or whatever, you always sort of notice that their voice goes up quite high.

I always felt like I was meant to have been born in another era, another time.

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.

You never think you're on the verge of disaster while you're looking over the edge yourself. It's your friends and family who are trying to get you to stop destroying yourself and after a while it kind of sank in and I just cleaned up my act.

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

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

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.

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.

Love is one of the hardest words to say and one of the easiest to hear.

I did mostly alcohol. There were drugs, too - pills - and there was a danger that I would go over the edge. I could have. I thank God I didn't.

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

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.

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.

Ugliness is better than beauty. It lasts longer and in the end, gravity will get us all.

I can't stand not being able to joke around on set, so I have to.