John Christopher Depp II is an American actor, producer, and musician. Depp rose to prominence on the 1980s television series 21 Jump Street, becoming a teen idol. He is regarded as one of the world’s biggest film stars, and he’s among the highest-grossing actors worldwide. He has been listed in the 2012 Guinness World Records as the world’s highest-paid actor, with earnings of $75 million.

His most commercially successful films are the Pirates of the Caribbean series, the Fantastic Beasts film series, Alice in Wonderland, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and The Tourist. He has been nominated for 10 Golden Globe Awards, winning one for Best Actor for his performance of the title role in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2008), and has been nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Actor, among other accolades.

“As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.” – Johnny Depp
“Do what you really want to do. Don’t Play their game! Don’t do what they want. Find your own way.” – Johnny Depp
“Escapism is survival to me.” – Johnny Depp
“Everything is just very, very blurry. I’ve never had proper vision.” – Johnny Depp
“Explore purity.” – Johnny Depp
“I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labelled.” – Johnny Depp
“I am eternally grateful.” – Johnny Depp
“I don’t pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do.” – Johnny Depp
“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.” – Johnny Depp
“I don’t think it’s anything you ever get used to… for many years, I could never sort of put my name in the same sort of category as the word ‘famous’ or anything like that. And I just found it very uncomfortable… if you get used to it, then something must be wrong.” – Johnny Depp
“I don’t trust anyone who hasn’t been self-destructive in some way. Who hasn’t gone through some sort of bout of self-loathing? You’ve got to bang yourself around a bit to know yourself.” – Johnny Depp
“I found evil in myself a long time ago, and I’ve accepted it. We’re old friends.” – Johnny Depp
“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.” – Johnny Depp
“I just don’t know if movies can ever be considered art, because there’s so much money involved… It’s all about commerce. I don’t think art can come from that place.” – Johnny Depp
“I just try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.” – Johnny Depp
“I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it’s going to work or whether I’m going to fall flat on my face.” – Johnny Depp
“I like to create stuff, whether it’s a little doodle, a drawing, a small painting or a movie, so I suppose I’m driven by that. Everything I’ve done has felt very natural.” – Johnny Depp
“I started out printing silk screen t-shirts. I sold ink pens. I worked construction. I worked at a gas station. I pumped gas. I was a mechanic for a little bit. I went into sewers, down into sewer lines. I had a lot of somewhat unpleasant gigs for a time there.” – Johnny Depp
“I think everybody’s weird. We should celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.” – Johnny Depp
“I think it’s an actor’s responsibility to change every time. Not only for himself and the people he’s working with, but for the audience. If you just go out and deliver the same dish every time, it’s meat loaf again, you’d get bored. I’d get bored.” – Johnny Depp
“I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you’re on it.” – Johnny Depp
“I think, as an actor, it is good to feel the fear of failing miserably. I think you should take that risk. Fear is a necessary ingredient in everything I do.” – Johnny Depp
“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.” – Johnny Depp
“I was the guy who had been bouncing around the film industry for years, and I’d been lucky if five or ten people would see my movies, so Captain Jack did a big flip for my career.” – Johnny Depp
“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.” – Johnny Depp
“I’m having too much fun today to worry about tomorrow.” – Johnny Depp
“I’m just an actor, and if I can leave something behind that my kids will be proud of, then that’s what I want. I don’t want my kids to be embarrassed by anything I’ve done.” – Johnny Depp
“I’m normal, well, semi-normal.” – Johnny Depp
“I’m not sure I’m adult yet.” – Johnny Depp
“I’m shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I’ve done everything I can to avoid it.” – Johnny Depp
“I’ve never felt particularly ambitious or driven, that’s for sure, although I like to create stuff, whether it’s a little doodle, a drawing, a small painting or a movie or a piece of music, so I suppose I’m driven by that. Everything I’ve done has felt very natural, and it’s happened because it’s happened.” – Johnny Depp
“If someone is being bullied or feels like an outsider, and they relate to something that I’ve done, even if it’s just igniting a spark, that’s great. I had that feeling as a kid. I was messed with no end.” – Johnny Depp
“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.” – Johnny Depp
“If you choose to lock your heart away, you’ll lose it for certain.” – Johnny Depp
“If you love two people at the same time, choose the second one because if you really loved the first, you wouldn’t have fallen for the second.” – Johnny Depp
“It hurts so much to want something you can’t have.” – Johnny Depp
“It’s funny because 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.” – Johnny Depp
“It’s only a bad day, not a bad life.” – Johnny Depp
“Just keep moving forward and don’t give a shit about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do for you.” – Johnny Depp
“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.” – Johnny Depp
“Life’s pretty good, and why wouldn’t it be? I’m a pirate, after all.” – Johnny Depp
“Love is not blind. It simply enables one to see things others fail to see.” – Johnny Depp
“Me, I’m dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, It’s the honest ones you have to watch out for.” – Johnny Depp
“Money doesn’t buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it.” – Johnny Depp
“Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world.” – Johnny Depp Johnny Depp
“Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can’t.” – Johnny Depp
“My body is my journal and my tattoos are my story.” – Johnny Depp
“My sickness is that I am fascinated my human behavior, by what’s underneath the surface, by the word’s inside the people.” – Johnny Depp
“Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate.” – Johnny Depp
“Now, bring me that horizon.” – Johnny Depp
“One day the people who didn’t believe in you will tell everyone how they met you.” – Johnny Depp
“People cry not because they’re weak, it’s because they’ve been strong for too long.” – Johnny Depp
“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.” – Johnny Depp
“Simplicity – that’s what I want. It’s been a rare commodity for me for a number of years, but I enjoy being able to hang out with my girl, read the newspaper, and sit back and start to read a book by someone I admire.” – Johnny Depp
“Success doesn’t change you, it reveals you.” – Johnny Depp
“The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem.” – Johnny Depp
“The thing is, even if you’re playing sort of a heightened character and playing inside sort of a heightened reality, you can still apply your own truths to those characters.” – Johnny Depp
“There are four questions of value in life… what is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.” – Johnny Depp
“There comes a time when a good man must wear a mask.” – Johnny Depp
“There is nothing on earth that could ever make me want to relive certain years of my life when I was young.” – Johnny Depp
“There’s a drive in me that won’t allow me to do certain things that are easy.” – Johnny Depp
“There’s an innocence to Ozzy Osborne. He’s mingling, but he’s somewhat detached.” – Johnny Depp
“There’s definitely healing properties to being in proximity to the ocean and that breeze. There’s something about that Caribbean climate and humidity.” – Johnny Depp
“They say the world used to be bigger. The world’s still the same, there’s just less in it.” – Johnny Depp
“Things in life are not always as they seem. When you listen, for instance, to someone talking, there is another voice beneath his words… even if you hear clearly what he is saying, the real truth is much deeper.” – Johnny Depp
“Tomorrow it’ll all be over, then I’ll have to go back to selling pens again.” – Johnny Depp
“We’re all damaged in our own way. Nobody’s perfect. I think we’re all somewhat screwy. Every single one of us.” – Johnny Depp
“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.” – Johnny Depp
“When you’re confined to a TV series, and you have to play one character, it can make you insane. But it didn’t affect me. I got out in time.” – Johnny Depp
“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.” – Johnny Depp
“With my kids, they’re told 75 times a day that they’re loved.” – Johnny Depp
“You can close your eyes to the things you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your heart to the things you don’t want to feel.” – Johnny Depp
“You gotta be careful: don’t say a word to nobody about nothing anytime ever.” – Johnny Depp
“You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don’t know how to feel good about the work you’re doing or the life you’re leading.” – Johnny Depp
“You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren’t allowed to be normal.” – Johnny Depp

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