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It's Kind Of Interesting To Experience That Kind Of A Ride After Well, Essentially So Many Years Of Enjoying A Career Based On Failures And Then Suddenly Something Clicks. The Weird Thing Is, I Never Changed A Thing. The Process Is Still The Process As It Ever Was. The Fact That People Decided To Go And See A Movie That I Was In Was Probably The Most Shocking Thing That I've Ever Been Through.

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It's Kind Of Interesting

Johnny Depp

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It's Kind Of Interesting To Experience That Kind Of A Ride After Well, Essentially So Many Years Of Enjoying A Career Based On Failures And Then Suddenly Something Clicks. The Weird Thing Is, I Never Changed A Thing. The Process Is Still The Process As It Ever Was. The Fact That People Decided To Go And See A Movie That I Was In Was Probably The Most Shocking Thing That I've Ever Been Through.

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

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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.

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I Don't Know If You Remember Me, But I Used To Work Here In The Factory." Were You One Of Those Despicable Spies Who Every Day Tried To Steal My Life's Work And Sell It To Those Paraseeded Cop Cat, Candy Making Cads?" No Sir!" Then Wonderful, Welcome Back!

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

Knowing That A Great Bit Of The Technology Is Active And Actually Happening, And That The Technology That We're Talking About, In Terms Of Uploading A Human Consciousness, Is Probably Not All That Far Away, To Be Honest. Indeed, It Will Happen. It's Pretty Close.

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

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.

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

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.

Kids Accept A Lot More, And They Buy It, Because They're Free.

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?

I Love The Idea Of Changing My Look. I Think One Owes It To The Audience, To Go Out There And Give Them Something Different Each Time, So As Not To Bore Them To Death.

And Because Technology Is Moving So Rapidly, Things Become Obsolete Very, Very Quickly. In 15 Years Time, Will Caster Is Probably Going To Be In Some Weird Room In Vegas Where People Are Plugging Quarters Into Him. Who Has A Mini-disc Of A Laser Disc Player? It's Over!

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

When Faced With Two Choices Simply Toss A Coin. It Works Not Because It Settles The Question For You, But Because In That Brief Moment When The Coin Is In The Air, You Suddenly Know What You Are Hoping For. If You Love Two People At The Same Time, Choose The Second One, Because If You Really Loved The First One You Wouldn't Have Fallen For The Second.

You Can't Plan The Kind Of Deep Love That Results In Children. Fatherhood Was Not A Conscious Decision. It Was Part Of The Wonderful Ride I Was On. All The Math Finally Worked.

You Don't Have To Underestimate Your Audience Anymore. They'd Actually Like To Laugh A Little Bit. So, The Character Came To Me And Once It's Got Its Grips In You, There's Nowhere To Go.

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

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

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.

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

Inspirational Celebrity

My Self-image It Still Isn't That Alright. No Matter How Famous I Am, No Matter How Many People Go To See My Movies, I Still Have The Idea That I'm That Pale No-hoper That I Used To Be. A Pale No-hoper That Happens To Be A Little Lucky Now. Tomorrow It'll Be All Over, Then I'll Have To Go Back To Selling Pens Again.

The Funny Thing Is You Oddly Don't Really Say Goodbye To All The Characters You've Played. There's Like A Chest Of Drawers In Your Head That You Can Always Access. They're Always Around. I'm Not Sure If That's Healthy. But They're All There.

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.

I Can't Stand Not Being Able To Joke Around On Set, So I Have To.

If You Fall In Love With 2 People At Once Choose The Second One Because If You Truly Loved The First One You Never Would Have Fell In Love With The Second One

Falling In Love

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What Happens To Me When I Read A Script, When Something Grabs Hold Of Me, I Start Getting These Flashes Of People Or Places Or Things Or Images.

I'm A Dumb-ass, And I Poisoned Myself For Years. Now I Understand Things Better.

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.

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If Someone Were To Harm My Family Or A Friend Or Somebody I Love, I Would Eat Them. I Might End Up In Jail For 500 Years, But I Would Eat Them.

I'd Get Very Nervous And Uncomfortable In Social Situations And The Only Way I Could Feel At All Normal Was, Well, To Drink My Guts Out.

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

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.

[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.

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.

You Can Go Out And Try To Do The Best Work That You Can Do Within The Context Of What That Is, But It's Really Gotta Be About The Work And What You're Focusing On.

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

I May Have A Feather Duster Down My Pants.

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

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

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

One Of The Greatest Things I've Ever Seen Happen Was The Morning I Opened The Newspaper And It Said That Some Very Powerful Government Officials Had Decided To Change The Name Of “french Fries” To “freedoom Fries” And “french Toast” To “freedom Toast”. It Was Impressive. I Wanted To Write A Letter To Them Just To Thank Them, Just For Proving Globally That They Were Absolute Imbeciles.

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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 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.

As A Child, I Certainly Had A Fascination With Monsters And Vampires.

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

Marlon Brando Was The Absolute Opposite Of Everything They Told Me He Was Going To Be, Which Is That He Was A Testy Guy Who Wants To Know That He's In Control Of Everything. But, That's Not Who Marlon Was. No Matter What He Did, The Most Important Thing On His Mind Was Justice.

The Challenge For Me Is Still To Do Something That Hasn't Been Beaten Into The Movie Going Consciousness. Otherwise What Am I In It For?

I'd Rather Fight A Buzzsaw Than Dance.

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

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

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.

My Body Is A Journal In A Way. It's Like What Sailors Used To Do, Where Every Tattoo Meant Something, A Specific Time In Your Life When You Make A Mark On Yourself, Whether You Do It Yourself With A Knife Or With A Professional Tattoo Artist.

When You Had The Fangs In, You Wanted To Be A Little Bit Careful That You Didn't Actually Pierce The Jugular, Kind Of Like My Experience Shaving Alan Rickman, Which By The Way Neither Of Us Want To Do Again, Especially Alan.

Me And Music. Music Was Always My First Love. It Was My First Love For Sure. And Still Is A Huge Part Of My Life.

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 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.

At Last My Arm Is Completee Again Xd

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.

Over The Years All These Vampire Movies Have Come Out And Nobody Looks Like A Vampire Anymore.

I Started Pulling Gags On Al [pachino]. That Was The Moment I Realized That He Was Absolutely Out Of His Mind. I Mean That He's Certifiably Insane. I Wouldn't Spend A Night In A Room Where He's At.

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 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.

I Always Felt That If You're Not Trying Something Different Each Time Out Of The Gate, You're Being Safe, And You Don't Ever Want To Find That Place Of Safety. I Like That, Each Time, Before I Even Go In Front Of The Cameras, The Studio's Reaction Will Be Fear.

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 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.

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

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.

The Birth Of My Daughter, Gave Me Life.

It's All Kinds Of These Profound Things Crashing On You When Your Child Arrives Into The World. It's Like You've Met Your Reason To Live.

Ironically, It Was Only Maybe A Year Prior To Tim Calling I Had Re-read Alice In Wonderland And Through The Looking Glass, And What I Took Away From It Was These Very Strange, Little Cryptic Nuggets That He'd Thrown In There.

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