Johnny Depp Quotes
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Barrie and the wonderful characters he created, Lewis Carroll, even French literature, like Baudelaire or over in the States, Poe, you open those books, you open The Flowers of Evil and begin to read. If it were written today, you'd be absolutely stupefied by the work. It's this incredible period where the work is timeless, ageless. So yeah, I just love all those guys. It's my deep passion in those great 19th century writers.
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I'm a big fan of revenge, I think Sweeney Todd it's a story of a man who clearly has obsessions to avenge the horror that happened to him.
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I can't stand not being able to joke around on set, so I have to.
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I got to take my kids to the London eye with no one looking at me like I was Johnny Depp. They did look at me like I was some kind of sicko walking around with beautiful kids, but I had a perfect disguise.
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One of the greatest things I've ever seen happen was the morning I opened the newspaper and it said that some very powerful government officials had decided to change the name of “french fries” to “freedoom fries” and “french toast” to “freedom toast”. It was impressive. I wanted to write a letter to them just to thank them, just for proving globally that they were absolute imbeciles.
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It's an odd thing when there is a fan page for my daughter who is not yet 13.
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Ironically, it was only maybe a year prior to Tim calling I had re-read Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, and what I took away from it was these very strange, little cryptic nuggets that he'd thrown in there.
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You never think you're on the verge of disaster while you're looking over the edge yourself. It's your friends and family who are trying to get you to stop destroying yourself and after a while it kind of sank in and I just cleaned up my act.
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We don't always cry because we are weak, sometimes we cry because we have been strong, brave and courageous for way too long.
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If you fall in love with 2 people at once choose the second one because if you truly loved the first one you never would have fell in love with the second one...
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I have toyed with the idea of playing it straight. But, like I say, I really believe we are all out of our minds at some level.
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One thing that's been a great, uplifting experience through all this is, since the first "Pirates" movie, the people who've gone to see the films, the audience members. You meet people on the street - whether they're 5, 25, 65 or 85 - they've all had the same experience, and they've all enjoyed it. So that's what keeps me moving forward in this crazy process.
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It's funny what producer Richard Zanuck said about even though you can't quite place when the book or the story came into your life, and I do vaguely remember roughly five years old reading versions of Alice in Wonderland, but the thing is the characters. You always know the characters. Everyone knows the characters and they're very well-defined characters, which I always thought was fascinating. Most people who haven't read the book definitely know the characters and reference them.
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I really love the experience of moving things around, in terms of being a director.
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I started pulling gags on Al Pachino. That was the moment I realized that he was absolutely out of his mind. I mean that he's certifiably insane. I wouldn't spend a night in a room where he's at.
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I wasn't into the lunchbox and thermos ski slope, and that's where I was going.
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People in life, when they have a tendency to exaggerate or lie or whatever, you always sort of notice that their voice goes up quite high.
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I still love the layers of cinema whether it's 35mm or 16mm or 8mm, super 8 which I love. I love the grain. If I had my druthers I'd film everything in kodachrome.
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They tell you to be careful because maybe you don't want to meet your heroes. I've met pretty much every one, and I've never been let down.
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Luckily I am very, very privileged and feel very lucky to be getting work and my kiddies are not feeling the brunt of any kind of horror that's going on today. So I'm super lucky.
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I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.
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I've thought of doing many things in my life, under the influence of life, and I've never actually thought of straddling two carriages while they're moving.
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You always miss them characters you've played once you've walked away, but part of them always stays with you too.
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For me, ambition has become a dirty word. I prefer hunger. To be hungry- great. To have hopes, dreams- great.