Quotes By 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.

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

People will say a movie bombed at the box office but I couldn't care less.

I'm not sure I'm adult yet.

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.

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.

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

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

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

France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.

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

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.

There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.