Quotes By Johnny Depp

Tomorrow it'll all be over, then I'll have to go back to selling pens again.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I may have a feather duster down my pants.

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

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

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.

Trips to the dentist - I like to postpone that kind of thing.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I'd rather fight a buzzsaw than dance.

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.

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

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.

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

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