If you catch me saying ‘I am a serious actor,’ I beg you to slap me.
JOHNNY DEPPIf you catch me saying ‘I am a serious actor,’ I beg you to slap me.
JOHNNY DEPPOnce you get on the ship, everything is fine. Once you get on land, everything is not so fine.
JOHNNY DEPPYou gotta be careful: don’t say a word to nobody about nothing anytime ever.
JOHNNY DEPPI try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.
JOHNNY DEPPThe only responsibility I feel is to deliver something that’s new or at least to attempt that. The real responsibility is to entertain and to try and make people laugh.
JOHNNY DEPPI think everybody’s nuts.
JOHNNY DEPPThroughout 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 DEPPThe only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.
JOHNNY DEPPI’m shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I’ve done everything I can to avoid it.
JOHNNY DEPPWith 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 DEPPMoney is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world.
JOHNNY DEPPAttention is a strange sort of being, anyway, the idea of attention if someone appreciates your work. It’s always nice that someone appreciates your work.
JOHNNY DEPPPuberty was very vague. I literally locked myself in a room and played guitar.
JOHNNY DEPPThe thing is, even if you’re playing sort of a heightened character and playing inside sort of a heightened reality, you can still apply your own truths to those characters.
JOHNNY DEPPThere’s a drive in me that won’t allow me to do certain things that are easy.
JOHNNY DEPPI always felt like I was meant to have been born in another era, another time.
JOHNNY DEPP