Johnny Depp quotes

Born
June 9, 1963, Owensboro, Kentucky, U.S.

Occupation
Actor.

Johnny Depp is an American actor, producer, and musician, depp has challenged himself by playing larger-than-life roles. Depp is regarded as one of the world’s biggest film stars.

Movies
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)
Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Arizona Dream (1993)
Black Mass (2015)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

Corpse Bride (2005)
Dark Shadows (2012)
Dead Man (1995)
Donnie Brasco (1997)
Ed Wood (1994)
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Fantastic Beasts The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
Finding Neverland (2004)
From Hell (2001)
Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
Nick of Time (1995)
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
Public Enemies (2009)
Rango (2011)
Secret Window (2004)
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
The Lone Ranger (2013)
The Ninth Gate (1999)
The Rum Diary (2011)
The Tourist (2010)
Transcendence (2014)
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)

Escapism is survival to me.
– Johnny Depp

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

I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you’re on it.
– Johnny Depp

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.
– Johnny Depp

Trips to the dentist – I like to postpone that kind of thing.
– Johnny Depp

There’s a drive in me that won’t allow me to do certain things that are easy.
– Johnny Depp

I made odd noises as a child. Just did weird things, like turn off light switches twice. I think my parents thought I had Tourette’s syndrome.
– Johnny Depp

I still approach a scene as one would approach a solo. There’s nothing set or pat.
– Johnny Depp

How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in.
– Johnny Depp

Puberty was very vague. I literally locked myself in a room and played guitar.
– Johnny Depp

You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren’t allowed to be normal.
– Johnny Depp

I did do a film that I refer to as ‘The Unpronounceable’ by a guy named Yvan Attal with Charlotte Gainsbourg. I had a bit part in there. That was quite fun, doing scenes in French.
– Johnny Depp

Wes Craven was the guy who gave me my start, from my perspective, for almost no reason in particular.
– Johnny Depp

I moved from Kentucky to Miramar, Florida, at about 8. I think I was in second grade. I still had my Southern accent, and down there, you got to experience a melting pot in full fury. All the kids I hung out with were, like, Sicilian kids from Jersey and New York.
– Johnny Depp

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

I started out printing silk screen t-shirts. I sold ink pens. I worked construction. I worked at a gas station. I pumped gas. I was a mechanic for a little bit. I went into sewers, down into sewer lines. I had a lot of somewhat unpleasant gigs for a time there.
– Johnny Depp

I never wanted to be the guy people looked at. I don’t think of myself as being a celebrity; it’s too mortifying.
– Johnny Depp

I guess I’m attracted to these off beat roles because my life has been a bit abnormal. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.
– Johnny Depp

Life’s pretty good, and why wouldn’t it be? I’m a pirate, after all.
– Johnny Depp

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

There’s always that moment on every movie where you just go, ‘Okay, this is that moment. I’m about to potentially fall flat on my face, and I might as well just dive in and see what happens.’
– Johnny Depp

The term ‘serious actor’ is kind of an oxymoron, isn’t it? Like ‘Republican party’ or ‘airplane food.’
– Johnny Depp

When you’re confined to a TV series, and you have to play one character, it can make you insane. But it didn’t affect me. I got out in time.
– Johnny Depp

The commercial flight thing, it just gets a little weird when you’re standing in line and suddenly you’re not just a guy standing in line anymore – you become sort of ‘novelty boy.’
– Johnny Depp

What I love to do is paint people’s faces, y’know, their eyes. Because you want to find that emotion, see what’s going on behind their eyes.
– Johnny Depp

It’s funny, because 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.
– Johnny Depp

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

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.
– Johnny Depp

I don’t pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do.
– Johnny Depp

When kids hit one 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

I don’t know if I can relax. Relax, I can’t do. My brain, on idle, is a bad thing. I just get weird. I mean, not weird. I get, I get antsy.
– Johnny Depp

I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didn’t really appreciate life the way I should have, but fortunately I woke up.
– Johnny Depp

With Ed Wood, it was this sort of blending of Ronald Reagan, the Tin Man from ‘The Wizard of Oz,’ and Casey Kasem.
– Johnny Depp

At my very core, I’m pretty shy. I just happen to have a weird job.
– Johnny Depp

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.
– Johnny Depp

It’s such a funny thing when you see your daughter transitioning from your baby, your little girl, to suddenly being a young woman. If you’re not really looking for it, you can miss it, and Lily-Rose is on that road already, and there’s nothing I can do to stop it.
– Johnny Depp

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

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

Anything I’ve done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.
– Johnny Depp

Everything is just very, very blurry. I’ve never had proper vision.
– Johnny Depp

Am I a romantic? I’ve seen ‘Wuthering Heights’ ten times. I’m a romantic.
– Johnny Depp

Prior to ‘Pirates of the Caribbean‘ – the first one in 2003 – I had been essentially known within the confines of Hollywood as box office poison, you know what I’m saying? You know, I basically had built a career on 20 years of failures.
– Johnny Depp

I don’t go anywhere without a book by James Joyce called ‘Finnegan’s Wake.’
– Johnny Depp

I was the guy who had been bouncing around the film industry for years, and I’d been lucky if five or 10 people would see my movies, so Captain Jack did a big flip for my career.
– Johnny Depp

I have a place that I get to go to in the Bahamas. It’s the only place that guarantees total anonymity and freedom.
– Johnny Depp

People will say a movie bombed at the box office but I couldn’t care less.
– Johnny Depp