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In Terms Of Playing Like A Straight Leading Man Type Thing, I Feel Like All These Guys Are Kind Of Not Necessarily Leading Men But Straight Kind Of Characters. Even Though They May Seem Bizarre Or Strange, I Feel Like I Think Everybody's Nuts. I Mean, I Really Do. And The Weirdest Thing In The World Is To See Some Guy Who Is Just Super Earnest.

-Johnny Depp

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Johnny Depp

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In Terms Of Playing Like A Straight Leading Man Type Thing, I Feel Like All These Guys Are Kind Of Not Necessarily Leading Men But Straight Kind Of Characters. Even Though They May Seem Bizarre Or Strange, I Feel Like I Think Everybody's Nuts. I Mean, I Really Do. And The Weirdest Thing In The World Is To See Some Guy Who Is Just Super Earnest.

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There Are Necessary Evils. Money Is An Important Thing In Terms Of Representing Freedom In Our World. And Now I Have A Daughter To Think About. It's Really The First Time I've Thought About The Future And What It Could Be.

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[the Huge Success Of Curse Of The Black Pearl] Made Perfect Sense To Me On The One Hand, And At The Same Time, It Made No Sense At All, Which I Kind Of Enjoyed. Even Now, With The Dolls And The Cereal Boxes And Snacks And Fruit Juices, It All Just Feels Fun To Me, In A Warholian Way. It's Absurd. It Doesn't Get More Absurd.

When I See Someone Who Just Follows Their Dream And Succeeds, And Just Does Basically What They Want To Do And Doesn't Have To Answer To Anyone, Obviously Not Harming Anyone, That's Great.

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 Do Believe That You Have To Bring Some Degree Of Truth From Yourself To The Role [sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street ]in And I'll Admit It Here, I Have Shaved A Grown Man Before. I Have Done It. And It Wasn't Tim [burton].

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.

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

One Of The Greatest Pieces Of Advice I've Ever Gotten In My Life Was From My Mom. When I Was A Little Kid There Was A Kid Who Was Bugging Me At School And She Said "okay, I'm Gonna Tell You What To Do. If The Kid's Bugging You And Puts His Hands On You; You Pick Up The Nearest Rock.

We Would Just Go Out And Line Up A Bunch Of Cans And Shoot With Rifles, Handguns And At Times, Submachine Guns... When I Was A Kid It Was A Controlled Atmosphere, We Weren't Shooting At Humans... We Were Shooting At Cans And Bottles Mostly. I Will Most Certainly Take My Kids Out For Target Practice.

A Dishonest Man You Can Always Trust To Be Dishonest.

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 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.

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

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

Here I Was Going To Work With Pacino Thinking, "i'm Not Going To Get Lucky Twice. There's No Way. This Guy Is Going To Hand Me My Ass." He Looks Like The Kind Of Guy Who's Going To Hand You Your Ass. It's Al Pacino.

If You Love Two People At The Same Time, Choose The Second. Because If You Really Loved The First One, You Wouldn't Have Fallen For The Second.

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 Don't Think Anybody's Necessarily Ready For Death. You Can Only Hope That When It Approaches, You Feel Like You've Said What You Wanted To Say. Nobody Wants To Go Out In Mid-sentence.

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.

For Me, The Question Was, How Can One Take A Live-action Performance And Put It In The Parameter Of One Of Those Cartoons? How Much Can You Get Away With?

If There Is Any Message To My Work, It Is Ultimately That It's Ok To Be Different.

Inspirational Celebrity

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

I'd Rather Fight A Buzzsaw Than Dance.

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

I Wasn't Into The Lunchbox And Thermos Ski Slope, And That's Where I Was Going.

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.

I Don't Do Well With Modern Films, To Be Honest. Opening Credits, And I'm Just Gone.

Pretty Much Any Drug You Can Name, I've Done It.

I'm Not Blockbuster Boy.

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

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

Personality Types

Any Character That You Come Up With Or Create Is A Piece Of You. You're Putting Yourself Into That Character, But There's The Guise Of The Character. So There's A Certain Amount Of Safety In The Character, Where You Feel More Safe Being The Character Than You Do Being Just You

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

The Wardrobe Guy [of Blow] Was A Genius. He Was So Tapped Into That Period And He Brought Me The Ugliest Things I'd Ever Seen And Then They Were Somehow Beautiful.

I Try To Stay In A Constant State Of Confusion Just Because Of The Expression It Leaves On My Face.

Better To Not Know Which Moment May Be Your Last. Every Morsel Of Your Entire Being Alive To The Infinite Mystery Of It All.

I Always Felt Like I Was Meant To Have Been Born In Another Era, Another Time.

It's Awful Bad Luck To Bring A Woman Aboard The Ship." "it's Awful Worse Luck Not To.

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