Johnny Depp Quotes

John Christopher Depp II is an American actor, producer, and musician. He has won the Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor. He rose to prominence on the 1980s television series 21 Jump Street, becoming a teen idol.

Depp has taken on the task of challenging himself to portray "larger-than-life" roles, starting with a supporting role in Oliver Stone's Vietnam War film Platoon in 1986, then playing the title character in the romantic dark fantasy Edward Scissorhands . He later found box office success in the fantasy adventure film Sleepy Hollow , the fantasy swashbuckler film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and its sequels, the fantasy film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , the fantasy film Alice in Wonderland and voicing the title character in the animated action comedy western Rango . He has collaborated on nine films with director, producer and friend Tim Burton.

Depp is regarded as one of the world's biggest film stars. He has gained praise from reviewers for his portrayals including screenwriter-director Ed Wood in Ed Wood, undercover FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone in Donnie Brasco, author J. M. Barrie in Finding Neverland, and the Boston gangster Whitey Bulger in Black Mass. Films featuring Depp have grossed over $3.2 billion at the United States box office and over $8 billion worldwide. His most commercially successful films are the Pirates of the Caribbean films, which have grossed $3 billion, Alice in Wonderland, which grossed $1 billion, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which grossed $474 million, and The Tourist, which grossed $278 million.

Depp has been nominated for major acting awards, including three nominations for Academy Award for Best Actor. Depp won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role for The Curse of the Black Pearl. He has been listed in the 2012 Guinness World Records as the highest paid actor, with earnings of $75 million. Depp was inducted as a Disney Legend in 2015.

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Famous Johnny Depp Quotes

Johnny Depp quote: “Breathe. It’s only a bad day, not a bad life.”
Johnny Depp quote: “My body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story.”

Johnny Depp Quotes about thinking

“We're all damaged in our own way. Nobody's perfect. I think we're all somewhat screwy. Every single one of us.”

Johnny Depp

Quoted in Bernard Weintraub, "Playboy Interview: Johnny Depp," Playboy (May 2004)
Context: I do have an affinity for damaged people, in life, in roles. I don't know why. We're all damaged in our own way. Nobody's perfect. I think we are all somewhat screwy, every single one of us.

“Just keep moving forward and don't give a sh** about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you.”

Johnny Depp

Variant: Just keep moving forward and don't give a shit about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you.

Johnny Depp Quotes about people

“If you love two people, pick the second, because if you truly loved the first, you wouldn't have fallen for the second.”

Johnny Depp

Variant: if you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn't have fallen for the second.

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Johnny Depp Quotes

Johnny Depp quote: “I'm having too much fun today to worry about tomorrow.”
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“You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.”

Johnny Depp

Also attributed to Chester Bennington (singer of Linkin Park)

“Now, bring me that horizon.”

Johnny Depp

Source: film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxVht0M-vWo

“I despise those prick actors who say, "I was in character," and "I became the character," and all that stuff. It's hideous. It's just masturbation at the highest level.”

Johnny Depp

Quoted in Chris Heath, "Johnny Depp's Savage Journey," http://www.johnnydeppfan.com/interviews/rs98.htm Rolling Stone (1998-06-11)

“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

Variant: With every part you act, there must be a little of yourself in it. If there isn't, it's not acting. It's lying.

Johnny Depp quote: “I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do.”

“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.”

Johnny Depp

Variant: If there's any message, it is ultimately that it's okay 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.

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

Johnny Depp

Variant: Life's pretty good, and why wouldnt it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

“I just don’t quite understand it [the press], really. I don’t understand the animal. It’s a strange, roundabout way of selling something; it leaves a foul taste… The thing that fascinates me is: who cares what an actor thinks?”

Johnny Depp

Quoted in Steven Daly, "The Maverick King," http://www.deppimpact.com/mags/transcripts/vanityfair_nov04.html Vanity Fair (November 2004)

“I always figured that once I wrapped a film, then anything beyond that is none of my business. If I can avoid seeing the final product, then all I have in my head is feeling good about the experience.”

Johnny Depp

Quoted in Ron Dicker, "Going deep with rebel Johnny Depp," http://www.johnnydeppfan.com/interviews/sunpotcarticle.htm Baltimore Sun (2003-07-08)

“The ultimate for me would be to do a feature that didn't require any narrative structure.”

Johnny Depp

Quoted in Ron Dicker, "Going deep with rebel Johnny Depp," Baltimore Sun (2003-07-08)

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