Quotes By Johnny Depp

Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

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.

The quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter in LA. I would never raise any child there.

I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.

For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I'm human and I'm normal - well, semi-normal.

You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.

I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didn't really appreciate life the way I should have, but fortunately I woke up.

I'd rather fight a buzzsaw than dance.

When kids hit one year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.

I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.

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.

I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.

You do the work and you want people to see it; but, um while I'm doing the work, the result doesn't matter at all to me. Ultimately, I don't, I don't care whether the film is - you know - some big giant box-office bonanza and I don't care if its a complete flop. To me, when a film gets made and it's actually finished it's a success. They're all a success in their own way.

I think everybody's nuts.

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

I don't want to run around and look at a shot through a monitor. That doesn't improve what I'm trying to do. I figure, once I've done my job, it's none of my business.

I'm not Blockbuster Boy.

It's an odd thing when there is a fan page for my daughter who is not yet 13.

I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do.

Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for.

Over the years all these vampire movies have come out and nobody looks like a vampire anymore.