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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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Johnny Depp

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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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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.

As You Get Older, You Recognize The Erotic Nature Of The Vampire And The Idea Of The Undead.

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

Every Relationship Has Problems But When Those Problems Arise You Have To Realise That They Don't Mean Your Relationship Is Broken, It's Just A Little Bent. Bent Things Can Be Fixed And Like So Your Relationship Can Too. The First Step However Is Realising That.

Having Been Familiar With "drunk" Once Or Twice Myself, That Lick Just Came To Me - And Yeah, It Sounded Very Drunk, So I Presented It To Alice [cooper]. It Felt Like He Wrote The Lyrics In About A Minute.

As Soon As We Fall In Love And We Realise We've Met The One The Rest Of Our Lives Can't Come Soon Enough. It's Not Like You're In A Rush To Get To The Finish Line, You're In A Rush To Feel And Experience Everything And Then Do It All Again.

Falling In Love

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

If You Had To Chose One Half Of Your Son, Which One Would It Be?" What Kind Of A Question Is That?!" No Need To Snap. It Was Just A Question.

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.

An Actor Shouldn't Have To Leave The Set And Go Home And Write A Bunch Of Stuff For A Bunch Of Other People, The Next Day. I Found It Very Unpleasant.

Any Man Who Had To Carry A Child Would Cave In Around Month Two.

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

Looking Forward

It's Good To Experience Hollywood In Short Bursts, I Guess. Little Snippets. I Don't Think I Can Handle Being Here All The Time, It's Pretty Nutty.

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

They Stick You With Those Names, Those Labels -- ‘rebel’ Or Whatever; Whatever They Like To Use. Because They Need A Label; They Need A Name. They Need Something To Put The Price Tag On The Back Of.

I Am Doing Things That Are True To Me. The Only Thing I Have A Problem With Is Being Labeled.

Personality Types

There Were So Many Great Teachers That Had So Much To Offer. The Idea Of Being Rigid, Why Would You Do That? People Have Their Things, But Why Be Rigid With Any Education When You Can Take Things From Here And Take Things From There?

She's Kind Of A Walking Poem, She's This Perfect Beauty...but At The Same Time Very Deep, Very Smart.

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

My Kids, They're My Energy, My Soul, And My Nicest Friend.

I'm Shy, Paranoid, Whatever Word You Want To Use. I Hate Fame. I've Done Everything I Can To Avoid It.

Luckily I Am Very, Very Privileged And Feel Very Lucky To Be Getting Work And My Kiddies Are Not Feeling The Brunt Of Any Kind Of Horror That's Going On Today. So I'm Super Lucky.

It's Absolutely Fine When Wile E. Coyote Walks In With A Band-aid On His Head, After A 3,000-pound Rock Is Dropped On Him. That Is What Ed Wood Meant By The Suspension Of Disbelief.

Other Kids Pack Lunch

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.

We Don't Always Cry Because We Are Weak, Sometimes We Cry Because We Have Been Strong, Brave And Courageous For Way Too Long.

Everything Here Is Edible; Even I'm Edible. But That, Dear Children, Is Cannibalism, And Is In Fact Frowned Upon In Most Societies.

The Only Gossip I'm Interested In Is Things From The Weekly World News - 'woman's Bra Bursts, 11 Injured'. That Kind Of Thing.

I Would Say That He Has A Rather Limited And Uncreative Way Of Looking At The Situation.

At Last My Arm Is Completee Again Xd

You Never Think You're On The Verge Of Disaster While You're Looking Over The Edge Yourself. It's Your Friends And Family Who Are Trying To Get You To Stop Destroying Yourself And After A While It Kind Of Sank In And I Just Cleaned Up My Act.

They Tell You To Be Careful Because Maybe You Don't Want To Meet Your Heroes. I've Met Pretty Much Every One, And I've Never Been Let Down.

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

I Think Alice [cooper] Probably, On Some Level, Recognized That Good Old Self-destructive Streak That Does Happen In Some People's Lives. So, Though I Wasn't There With Alice And The Vampires, But I'd Give Anything In The World To Have Been, I Had My Own Version, I Suppose, A Little Later.

I Literally Went From Being Unable To Play My Rent To Being On A Plane The Next Day, Being Paid Peanuts.

My Beef Was With Essentially Being A Product. I Didn't Want To Be A Product, So I Tried To Get Fired, But They Didn't Fire Me, Which Was Weird.

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.

I Did Mostly Alcohol. There Were Drugs, Too - Pills - And There Was A Danger That I Would Go Over The Edge. I Could Have. I Thank God I Didn't.

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.

Trips To The Dentist - I Like To Postpone That Kind Of Thing.

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