Johnny Depp Quotes
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.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.
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I don't want to be a bust.
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Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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It's a blessing to have fans acknowledging your craft, period.
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Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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I was born and raised in a small village, and I didn't even think I was especially pretty.
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My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more than four or five commercial one-shot scripts. These were performed on major national hook-ups but produced for me no immediate additional jobs or requests. One script for BBC was done around the world with an all-star cast.
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When someone holds a knife to your throat it's easy to be scared. It's not hard to imagine what it would be like.
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I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.
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I was impressed by the Taj Mahal. A good bit of work, well looked after, worth paying money to see.
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I don't believe in God.
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When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree.
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We are mere journeymen, planting seeds for someone else to harvest.
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.
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When I made a breakthrough as an actor, people started to say, 'Who's that bloke with the funny name?' They advised me to change it, saying it would never be put up in lights outside theaters because they couldn't afford the electricity. But I would never contemplate changing it. It's who I am.
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A lot of illustrators have one central character and then they develop it, and all their books are based around it. But that was not my wish. I wanted to introduce children to the whole creative side of many aspects of life.
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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.
