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I've Always Enjoyed Hiding Behind These Characters. It's A Strange Thing, You're More Comfortable As A Character Than You Are In Life. I Could Stand Up In Front Of, It Doesn't Matter How Many People, As A Character. But If I Had To Do It As Myself And Give A Speech, I Would Be Liquid.

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I've Always Enjoyed Hiding

Johnny Depp

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I've Always Enjoyed Hiding Behind These Characters. It's A Strange Thing, You're More Comfortable As A Character Than You Are In Life. I Could Stand Up In Front Of, It Doesn't Matter How Many People, As A Character. But If I Had To Do It As Myself And Give A Speech, I Would Be Liquid.

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I Had Never Experienced Anything Like The Response I Got From People For Pirates Of The Caribbean, Where You Meet A 75-year-old Woman Who Had Seen Pirates And Somehow Related To The Character, And Then Five Minutes Later You Meet A Six-year-old Who Says, 'oh, You're Captain Jack!' What A Rush. What A Gift. That Was The Challenge With Wonka, Too--to Be, In A Sense, Like Bugs Bunny. I Find It Magical That A Three-year-old Can Be Mesmerized By Bugs, But So Can A 40-year-old Or An 80-year-old. It's A Great Challenge To See If You Can Appeal To That Huge An Age Range.

Ugliness Is Better Than Beauty. It Lasts Longer And In The End, Gravity Will Get Us All.

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I'm Not A Great Pothead Or Anything Like That... But Weed Is Much, Much Less Dangerous Than Alcohol.

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Thank God I Never Hooked On Anything. I Never Had A Monkey On My Back. I Just Wanted To Self-medicate, To Numb Myself Through Liquor. It's How I Dealt With Life, Reality, Stress, Change, Sadness, Memories. The List Goes On. I Was Really Trying To Feel Nothing.

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A Dishonest Man You Can Always Trust To Be Dishonest.

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.

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

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

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

I Hope Some Day To Make You All A Cup Of Coffee. Alright, Peace.

Every Filmmaker's Different, Every Filmmaker Has A Different Approach.

I Actually Tell Lies For A Living. Exactly. I Mean, That's What Acting Is, Really.

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.

I'd Worked With Marlon [brando] A Couple Of Times, And He Was A Practical Joker. He Was Far More Interested In Getting Jokes Out Than Getting The Words Out. We Laughed All The Time.

I Was Never Disappointed By The People I've Admired. And The Choices I Made When I Was In A Position Where It Was Do-or-die Were Made With My Heroes In Mind.

America Is Dumb, It's Like A Dumb Puppy That Has Big Teeth That Can Bite And Hurt You, Aggressive.

If I Ever Thought Of Directing Again, I Mean - I Don't Know, Even The Idea Of Directing A Film Is A Strange One For Me, Because I Feel Kind Of Anti Mathematics In A Way In That Sense. Anti - I Don't Like When Things Make Sense, I Prefer If They Don't, So If I Made A Film, It Wouldn't Make Any Sense And No One Would See It. So Maybe I'll Just Make Little Films At Home With My Phone, Never To Be Released.

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.

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

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.

I've Always Been Frightened Of Karaoke, So I've Never Tried It. Karaoke Scares The Hell Out Of Me!

When I'm At Our House In France I Totally Cut Myself Off From The Rest Of The World. I Never Have To Listen To Phones Ringing And That's Because - And Vanessa Would Confirm This - Phones Are Banned From The House. We Have A Beautiful Life And I Feel That Spending Time In France Has Just Calmed Me Down And Made Me Stop Worrying About Things Which Aren't Really Important.

Obviously, Technology Is Moving And Reshaping Itself, Radically, Every Day. We're All Capable Of Answering That Question Within Ourselves. Would You Do It For The Person That You Love? Would You Be Married To A Hard Drive, Essentially?

If Anybody Is Getting Their Ass Handed To Them, It's Not Al [pachino]. It's Coming [toward You]. I'm Psychotic.

I Was Really Intrigued By Them, Became Fascinated By Them Because They Were Asking Questions That Couldn't Be Answered Almost, Or Were Making Statements That You Couldn't Quite Understand. Like, 'i'm Investigating Things That Begin With The Letter M.' That Took Me Through A Whole Stratosphere Of Possibilities, And Doing A Little Research And Discovered That The M Is Mercury.

Asking Questions

I Know Exactly What I Want. Everything. Calm, Peace, Tranquility, Freedom, Fun, Happiness. If I Could Make All That One Word, I Would - A Many-syllabled Word.

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.

I Experimented With Drugs And I Experimented With Everything That Little Boys Do - Vandalism, Throwing Eggs At Cars, Breaking And Entering Schools And Destroying A Room. But I Finally Got To A Point Where I Looked Around And Said, "this Is Not Getting Me Anywhere. I'm Stagnating With These Guys." They Were Getting Drunk And High Every Weekend. I Got Out.

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

Am I A Romantic? I've Seen 'wuthering Heights' Ten Times. I'm A Romantic.

I'm Not Blockbuster Boy.

I Think The Thing To Do Is Enjoy The Ride While You're On It.

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

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've Been Told I Smell Good. I Don't Look Like I Smell Good.

How Many Chances To You Get To Make A Musical About A Serial Killer? The Minute Tim Burton Approached Me, I Was In.

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.

I Trust Kids Far More Than I Do Adults. Kids Give You The Honest Opinion. They Tell The Truth.

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