Johnny Depp Quotes - Quotations

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Johnny Depp is one of the most unconventional actors of recent times and can back up his fame with real talent. Refusing to be a Product made and owned by the corporate studio system currently running show business, Depp proves that you can find success and enjoy it on your own terms! Here's a few thoughts from our favorite Rogue Hunk:
"Am I a romantic? I've seen Wuthering Heights ten times. I am a romantic."

"I'm not Blockbuster Boy."

"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."

"Never let anyone get their hands on you, either physically or metaphorically speaking. During Jump Street that's what the suits tried to do -- make me a product. Get their hands on me. So I left and did things my way. I think that this is probably the best advice I've ever gotten and it came from my mother."

"For me, success has become a dirty word. I prefer ambition, hunger, to be hungry, to have hopes."

"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."

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

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

"I think everybody's nuts, to tell you the truth. I think everybody is absolutely out of their heads all the time. Just watch people. People are absolutely insane. They just are. Look at us!"

"I never had the brightest view of human nature. I think humanity - society, at least -- is violent. It's not getting any better. I don't think I'm cynical, but I do think maybe the world is more sinful than ever before."

"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."

"I'll never understand the animal, the machine of Hollywood business. And I don't want to understand it. It's like joining a club, a clique just because everyone else is in it. You don't have any particular interest in it and it has nothing to do with who you are as a person. You just join it because it's the thing to do."

"I'm not sure I'm an adult yet."

"I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame and I've done everything I can to avoid it."
"I'm attracted to the extreme light and the extreme dark. I'm interested in the human condition and what makes people tick. I'm interested in the things people try to hide."

"I'm 30 different people sometimes. One day you wake up and you're somebody else, nowhere near who you were when you went to sleep. Unfortunately, I feel more comfortable in front of the movie camera than I do in real life."

"It's good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don't think I can handle being there all the time. It's pretty nutty."

"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."

"My body is a journal in a way, where every tattoo means something, a specific time in your life where you make a mark on yourself."

"My self-image it still isn't that alright. No matter how famous I am, no matter how many people go to see my movies, I still have the idea that I'm that pale no-hoper that I used to be. A pale no-hoper that happens to be a little lucky now. Tomorrow it'll be all over, then I'll have to go back to selling pens again.'"

"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 Los Angeles. I would never raise any child there."

"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."

"You can't plan the kind of deep love that results in children. Fatherhood was not a conscious decision. It was part of the wonderful ride I was on. It was destiny; kismet. All the math finally worked."

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

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