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I Remember In That Red Leisure Suit I Sort Of Felt Like A Pizza Hut Employee, And The White One Was The Ultimate, With The White Turtleneck Collar, That Was The Ultimate In Bad Taste.

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I Remember In That

Johnny Depp

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I Remember In That Red Leisure Suit I Sort Of Felt Like A Pizza Hut Employee, And The White One Was The Ultimate, With The White Turtleneck Collar, That Was The Ultimate In Bad Taste.

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Native American

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You Use Your Money To Buy Privacy Because During Most Of Your Life You Aren't Allowed To Be Normal.

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.

If I Can Avoid The Mirror When I Brush My Teeth In The Morning, I Will. I Find Security And Safety In The Most Profound Degree Of Ignorance. If You Can Just Stay Ignorant Of Almost Everything You'll Be Ok. It's Fine To Stay Informed And Look At Things, But To Judge Things Will Bog You Down.

With Every Character You Play, As These Guys Will Tell You, There's A Part Of You Goes Into That In Terms Of The Ingredients Of Making This Stew. There's Most Definitely A Part Of Me In Captain Jack And Now, Fortunately Or Unfortunately, There's A Great Part Of Captain Jack In Me As Well. Basically, I Can't Shake Him. He Won't Leave Me Alone. He Just Sort Of Keeps Showing Up At Odd Times.

I Just Happen To Be A Sucker For Humor. So Anywhere I Can Sneak In Something That I Find Potentially Interesting Or Funny I Do It As Much As I Can Get Away With.

If It's Called A Selfie, Why Are There People In It?

I Was Always A Fan Of The Great Old Spaghetti Westerns, The Sergio Leone Films. But The One That Always Sticks With Me, That I Just Thought Was Brilliant And Perfect Is "cat Ballou." Lee Marvin In "cat Ballou."

Thats What A Ship Is, You Know. Its Not A Keel And A Hull And A Deck And Sails. Thats What A Ship Needs. But What A Ship Is. What The Black Pearl Really Is . . . Is Freedom.

It's Important To Keep Challenging Myself And Try To Come Up With Some New Face Every Now And Again.

If There's Any Message To My Work, It Is Ultimately That It's Ok To Be Different, That It's Good To Be Different, That We Should Question Ourselves Before We Pass Judgment On Someone Who Looks Different, Behaves Different, Talks Different, Is A Different Color.

Being Different

Tomorrow It'll All Be Over, Then I'll Have To Go Back To Selling Pens Again.

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.

I Was Poisoning Myself With Alcohol And Medicating Myself. I Was Trying To Numb Things. I Was Trying Not To Feel Things, And That's Ridiculous. It's One Of The Dumbest Things You Can Do, Because All You're Doing Is Postponing The Inevitable. Someday You'll Have To Look All Those Things In The Eye Rather Than Try To Numb The Pain.

School's A Weird Thing. I'm Not Sure It Works.

My Body Is My Journal, And My Tattoos Are My Story.

The Problem Is That Everybody Treats Teenagers Like They're Stupid.

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

I Always Figured That Once I Wrapped A Film, Then Anything Beyond That Is None Of My Business. If I Can Avoid Seeing The Final Product, Then All I Have In My Head Is Feeling Good About The Experience.

They (the People Of Puerto Rico) Are Truly The Sweetest People On Earth.

I Remember In That Red Leisure Suit I Sort Of Felt Like A Pizza Hut Employee, And The White One Was The Ultimate, With The White Turtleneck Collar, That Was The Ultimate In Bad Taste.

People Say I Make Strange Choices, But They're Not Strange For Me. My Sickness Is That I'm Fascinated By Human Behavior, By What's Underneath The Surface, By The Worlds Inside People.

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 Actually Did Do A Musical Many Years Ago With John Waters Called Cry-baby, But Technically It Was Only Half Me - It Wasn't Me Singing. Tim's [ Burton] The Only Person Brave Enough To Actually Let Me Try To Sing.

I Went Through Various Stages In My Childhood, As We All Do, Various Stages Of Obsessions With People And Things. And I Did. I Wanted To Be The First White Harlem Globetrotter.

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

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.

There Is Nothing On Earth That Could Ever Make Me Want To Relive Certain Years Of My Life When I Was Young.

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

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.

In Terms Of It Being A First Screenplay, Literally, My Hat Is Off To Him [wally Pfister]. I Didn't See Any Virgin Blather In Screen Direction, Or Anything Like That. It Was Just A Wonderfully Executed Piece, And A Complicated One. The Mathematics Involved In Putting This Film Together, Between Jack And Wally, And The Great Support Of Alcon, It Was Not A Easy Little Operetta.

I Suppose Nowadays It's All A Question Of Surgery, Isn't It? Of Course The Notion Is Beautiful, The Idea Of Staying A Boy And A Child Forever, And I Think You Can. I Have Known Plenty Of People Who, In Their Later Years, Had The Energy Of Children And The Kind Of Curiosity And Fascination With Things Like Little Children. I Think We Can Keep That, And I Think It's Important To Keep That Part Of Staying Young. But I Also Think It's Great Fun Growing Old.

Once You Get On The Ship, Everything Is Fine. Once You Get On Land, Everything Is Not So Fine.

[jack Sparrow]'s A Blast To Play. I'll Be In A Deep, Dark Depression Saying Goodbye To Him. I'll Keep The Costume And Just Prance Around The House, Entertain The Kids....i Mean, At A Certain Point, The Madness Must Stop, But For The Moment, I Can't Say That He's Done.

There's The Whole Mad Hatter's Dilemma, It Was The Amount Of Mercury That They Used In The Glue To Make The Hats. Everything Was Damaging. So, In Terms Of The Mad Hatter, Looking At It From That Perspective Of This Guy Who Literally Is Damaged Goods, Physically Damaged, Emotionally A Little Obtuse, And Taking That And Deciding That He Should Be - As Opposed To Just This Hyper, Nutty Guy - He Should Explore All Sides Of The Personality At An Extreme Level.

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