Johnny Depp Quotes
An actor needs to be not remotely anywhere close to in control, and a filmmaker has to be totally in control.
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I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
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Sometimes a time dictates what a film will be. Sometimes a film dictates what the time will be.
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It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
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People that watch Adult Swim don't watch the Oscars.
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It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.
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I think for a long time I wasn't really out to myself growing up in Omaha, Neb., to a Catholic conservative family. It took me a while to come out to myself, and not long after that, I came out to them. I think that it really couldn't have been a better experience. They were all immediately supportive.
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You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
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Like the Britain of Beaverbrook and Kipling, Japan in the early twentieth century was a jingoistic nation, subduing weaker countries with the help of populist politicians and sensationalist journalism.
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While having a profound impact on the development of values is surely an important job of a good parent, force-feeding opinions to them is not.
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I was seeing a lot of really good things about Get Shorty when it came out, and my wife pointed out that if you validate the good reviews, you also have to validate the bad reviews.
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Our entire brand is about transparency. We want that data out there because you know what? If you are only getting one in three messages replied to, you're normal. You're right there in the middle of everything with everyone else.
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If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.
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He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.
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I even don't dare to watch our stock price, because this is what other people think who you are. I dare not watch it. I think, let the market take care of themselves; we should take care of the business.
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Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability.
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When I'm working, even though it's sometimes challenging and difficult, there's still no place I would rather be.
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People always want to be on the right side of history; it is a lot easier to say, 'What an atrocity that was' then it is to say, 'What an atrocity this is.'
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My fondest memories were watching the Beastie Boys get prepped to come on stage. They had a lot of antics and they play a lot of basketball... then they were giving out cameras to the crowd, and performing from the bleachers. The most important thing I learned was that you control your crowd, not the other way around.
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It's like an athlete. He has a string of hot years, and then he fades into nothingness. The actor doesn't necessarily fade into nothingness. After his hot years, he fades into a different category.
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Life is full of inspiration, far more than I'll ever get to write about.
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Every time I think I know what's right and wrong, I end up being wrong. All I want to do is explore. I want to see what people would do. I say, 'What would this person do in this situation?' and I write it down. I'm not writing manifestos of my political views.
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An actor needs to be not remotely anywhere close to in control, and a filmmaker has to be totally in control.
