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Even When You're Down And Blue, Just Remember That Someone Out There Loves You, Even If You Don't Know It And Even If You Haven't Yet Met Them. There's Someone Out There Waiting For You, Remember That And Keep Faith. You'll Get There.

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Even When You're Down

Johnny Depp

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Even When You're Down And Blue, Just Remember That Someone Out There Loves You, Even If You Don't Know It And Even If You Haven't Yet Met Them. There's Someone Out There Waiting For You, Remember That And Keep Faith. You'll Get There.

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I Toyed With The Idea Of What It Might Be Like To Live With Some Species Of Heatstroke That Maybe Didn't Go Away All That Quickly. He's A Pirate, Which Is About Rum, Sodomy And The Lash, Isn't It? So, To Be Able To Keep Things Like That In My Head, When I'm Going To Do A Film For Disney, I'd Been Through The Ringer. That Was Like Infiltrating The Enemy Camp. I Wasn't Able To Stop Smiling.

I Mean, I Think Everybody Should Probably Approach A Film That It's Another Unwanted Thing. That's Going To Be Seared Onto My Brain For The Rest Of My Life. Thank You For That.

Well, Having No Intelligence, I'm Looking Forward To Gaining Some, Whether Artificial, Superficial Or Super-duper.

Looking Forward

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.

Most People Are Really Nuts And That's Fascinating To Me.

One Day, The People That Didn't Believe In You Will Tell Everyone How They Met You.

Sometimes I Feel Like I'm Possessed With A Multitude Of Demons.

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.

I Think When You Are Young, You Are Hoping That This Person Will Be The Right One. The One You Are Going To Be In Love With Forever, But Sometimes You Want That So Much, You Create Something That Isn't Really There.

They Say The World Used To Be Bigger. The World's Still The Same--there's Just Less In It.

I've Played English A Number Of Times, And Used An English Accent A Number Of Times, So It Becomes A Little Bit Of An Obstacle Course To Go, "oh, That's Teetering Into Captain Jack-ville," Or "this Is Teetering Into Chocolat Or Wonka." You've Got To Really Pay Attention To The Places You've Been. But, That's Part Of It. That's The Great Challenge. You May Get It Wrong. There's A Very Good Possibility That You Can Fall Flat On Your Face, But That's A Healthy Thing For An Actor.

Do What You Really Want To Do. Don't Play Their Game! Don't Do What They Want. Find Your Own Way.

Laugh As Much As You Breathe And Love As Long As You Live.

I Still Approach A Scene As One Would Approach A Guitar Solo. You Don't Exactly Know How You're Going To Phrase This Or That. Which I Think Is Beautiful. That Idea Of Chance.

I'm Attracted To The Extreme Light And The Extreme Dark. I'm Interested In The Human Condition And What Makes People Tick. I'm Interested In The Things People Try To Hide.

Now, Bring Me That Horizon.

Life's Pretty Good, And Why Wouldn't It Be? I'm A Pirate, After All.

Throughout My Lifetime I've Left Pieces Of My Heart Here And There. And Now, There's Almost Barely Enough To Stay Alive. But I Force A Smile, Knowing That My Ambition Far Exceeded My Talent.

[on Buying A Private Island] Money Doesn't Buy You Happiness, But It Buys You A Big Enough Yacht To Sail Right Up To It.

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.

I Think Everybody's Weird. We Should All Celebrate Our Individuality And Not Be Embarrassed Or Ashamed Of It.

Marlon [brando] Showed Me That You Could Do The Work And Not Have To Shut Yourself Off From People Or Your Family.

There Are These Mythic Unicorn-y Tales Of Method Acting, But Marlon [brando] Wanted To Have A Good Time.

You Could Make An Analogy To A Security Guard Who, Three Weeks Prior, Was Mowing Lawns For A Living. The Second He Puts A Uniform On And That Badge, He's A Man. I Imagine The Majority Of Us Have Felt The Wrath Of The Over-zealous Security Guard Guy. Is There Something Lying Dormant In The Man, That's Waiting To Be Pumped Up With That Kind Of Power? I Don't Know. Does It Reveal Him? I Don't Know. Does It Change Him? I Don't Know.

I'm Not Even Born Yet. I'm Still Trying. I'm Still Pushing. I Don't Ever Want To Get To A Place Where I Feel Satisfied.

I Was Always Fascinated By People Who Are Considered Completely Normal, Because I Find Them The Weirdest Of All

With A Character Like A Captain Jack, Who Can Essentially Set Up These Verbal Land Mines Around Him, And Just Keep Passing The "absurdity Ball" Around And The "irreverence Ball" Around, And Keep People Guessing And Keep People Confused, There's Great Safety In That. Me, Myself, Personally, I Learn From It. It's A Real Pleasure, And I Do Need Him.

After Having Been Confined To A Television Series - And It's A Luxury Job - Where You Can't Play Anything But One Particular Character For Nine Months Out Of The Year, It Will Make You Insane. It Didn't Affect Me. I Got Out Quick Enough.

You Always Miss Them [characters You've Played] Once You've Walked Away, But Part Of Them Always Stays With You Too.

There's A Drive In Me That Won't Allow Me To Do Certain Things That Are Easy.

They’re All About Where People Come From. The Only Thing Important Is Where Somebody’s Going.

If They Let Me Choose Between You And The Dog, I'll Choose The Dog.

I Can't Tell My Self That I'm A Serious Actor. But I'm Serious Person.

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