Johnny Depp Quotes
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Do what you really want to do. Don't play their game! Don't do what they want. Find your own way.
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There are guys, the weekenders, who can go out and get loaded and they're having fun and partying - which is a term I deplore, partying - and it's all recreational and they're having a ball. I never had that. It was never about recreation. Not. Ever. That was never my motivation. Not once!
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I really love the experience of moving things around, in terms of being a director.
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It really depends on what the screenplay is asking of you, and what your responsibility is to that character. You have the author's intent to deal with, you have the filmmaker's vision, and then you have your own wants, desires and needs for the character. It's collaborative. But I knew, right off the bat, that there was no way to go into some sort of pink-haired, clown-nosed character with Ronald McDonald shoes.
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I was always fascinated by people who are considered completely normal, because I find them the weirdest of all...
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I've never been particularly ambitious. I'm driven by the moment.
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When I see someone who just follows their dream and succeeds, and just does basically what they want to do and doesn't have to answer to anyone, obviously not harming anyone, that's great.
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America is dumb, it's like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you, aggressive. My daughter is four, my boy is one. I'd like them to see America as a toy, a broken toy. Investigate it a little, check it out, get this feeling and then get out.
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Out on the street, you never know what you're getting, and suddenly two days later you're beating yourself in the head with a tennis racket, wearing a towel, quoting Poe. You don't want that for your kid. You really don't want that.
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If there's a message to pass to people, I'd say that it's normal to be different from others, it's good to differ from one another, and we'd better look at ourselves first before we start criticising someone who looks, acts, speaks different or has a different skin colour. I'd like to continue, even at a minimal level, what John Lennon had started. If I could do as much as a bit of what he did, if I could contribute to the elimination of hatred among us, that would be a great deal.
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The only responsibility I feel is to deliver something that's new or at least to attempt that. The real responsibility is to entertain and to try and make people laugh.
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When you realize you're essentially you're God, there ain't nothing on earth more powerful than you, you can do anything you want.
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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. All the math finally worked.
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Keep moving forward and do what you have to do for you.
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The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.'
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My children's favorite, and it's funny because they've seen it but they have a difficult time watching it because it's their dad and they make that connection, but Edward Scissorhands is by far my kids' favorite. They just connect with the character, and they see their dad feeling that isolation, that loneliness. He's a tragic character, so I think it's hard for them. They bawl.
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I condition myself to believe that once the scene is done, once the movie is done, my job is done, and whatever happens after that is none of my business.
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All men would be cowards if they only had the courage.
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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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I had just had a daughter, who was three or three-and-half years old, and I had been watching nothing but cartoons. That's really it. There was no YouTube. You're in France and you're raising a kid, so you break out the Tex Avery.
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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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The problem is that everybody treats teenagers like they're stupid.
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For the actor, The Lee Strasberg Notes are an indispensable companion.
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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.