Quotes

“I think everybody's nuts.” 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 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.” Johnny Depp

“It's all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It's like you've met your reason to live.” Johnny Depp

“Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.” 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

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

“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.” Johnny Depp

“The quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter in LA. I would never raise any child there.” Johnny Depp

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

“The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.'” Johnny Depp

“For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I'm human and I'm normal - well, semi-normal.” 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

“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

“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

“I'm not sure I'm adult yet.” Johnny Depp

“There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be.” Johnny Depp

“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

“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

“I may have a feather duster down my pants.” Johnny Depp

“There is nothing on earth that could ever make me want to relive certain years of my life when I was young.” Johnny Depp

“I'd rather fight a buzzsaw than dance.” Johnny Depp

“It's good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don't think I can handle being here all the time, it's pretty nutty.” Johnny Depp

“Over the years all these vampire movies have come out and nobody looks like a vampire anymore.” Johnny Depp

“The idea of dancing is the only thing that scares me.” Johnny Depp

“Trips to the dentist - I like to postpone that kind of thing.” Johnny Depp

“You do the work and you want people to see it; but, um while I'm doing the work, the result doesn't matter at all to me. Ultimately, I don't, I don't care whether the film is - you know - some big giant box-office bonanza and I don't care if its a complete flop. To me, when a film gets made and it's actually finished it's a success. They're all a success in their own way.” Johnny Depp

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

“I don't want to run around and look at a shot through a monitor. That doesn't improve what I'm trying to do. I figure, once I've done my job, it's none of my business.” Johnny Depp

“I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste.” Johnny Depp