Johnny Depp
How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in.
When you disrespect Australian law, they will tell your firmly. Declare everything when you enter Australia.
There's an innocence to Ozzy Osbourne. He's mingling, but he's somewhat detached.
I started out as a guitarist in the early '80s.
Everything is just very, very blurry. I've never had proper vision.
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.
It's an odd thing when there is a fan page for my daughter who is not yet 13.
I'd rather fight a buzzsaw than dance.
I do realise and understand very well on a profound level how lucky I am and what a privileged position it is and what it's done ultimately for me, my family and my kids. But at the same time, there are moments in a man's life when you just kind of want to feel somewhat normal.
Prior to 'Pirates of the Caribbean' - the first one in 2003 - I had been essentially known within the confines of Hollywood as box office poison, you know what I'm saying? You know, I basically had built a career on 20 years of failures.
What attracted me to Jimmy Bulger were the various facets of his personality and his humanity because I felt that the only way I could approach playing a character like him was to find his human side first and then map that out to see where it took the turn. He was a very complicated man.
Trips to the dentist - I like to postpone that kind of thing.
I'm not Blockbuster Boy.
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.
I've had some rank auditions where I embarrassed myself to new heights, which is hard for me to do. I was never good at auditioning. There are a number of actors over the years come up the ranks who are horrific at auditioning.
When I was 12, I wanted to learn how to play the guitar, and I found a chord book in a shop, and I stuffed it down my trousers. And that's how I learned to play the guitar.
It's been insane. From Whitey Bulger to the Mad Hatter, you can imagine the schizophrenia.
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.
I don't want to run around and look at a shot through a monitor. That doesn't improve what I'm trying to do. I figure, once I've done my job, it's none of my business.
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.
I guess I'm attracted to these off beat roles because my life has been a bit abnormal. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.
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.
I'm doing a film called 'Black Mass' where I play James Bulger. The reason to play him is obvious to me. He's a fascinating character. It's not like anything I've done before on that level. I'm very excited to slide into that skin for a little bit.
It's very, very important to me, no matter who the person is, to play that person with the utmost degree of truth that I'm able to bring. But playing a character like Jack Sparrow or Willy Wonka, that requires nothing but a degree of responsibility to the intent of the story - responsibility to the film-maker to deliver the goods.
I always have a decompression period at the end of a film. Sometimes it joyful, because you're just happy to be done. Or it can be melancholy.
One of the most beautiful things in the world is seeing a mommy with her kids. There's nothing more beautiful, nothing more sublime.
My job, as an actor, is to give the director options. You can only hope that the takes that you thought were the best were chosen. But, then again, if I don't watch it, I'll never know.
When I auditioned for '21 Jump Street,' it was a last minute thing. I had one of the worst flus that I've ever experienced in my life, and I was forced to go to the audition, the screen test.
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.
The quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter in LA. I would never raise any child there.
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.Collection: Inspirational
One day, the people that didn't believe in you will tell everyone how they met you.Collection: Believe
Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.Collection: Love
We don't always cry because we are weak, sometimes we cry because we have been strong, brave and courageous for way too long.Collection: Strong
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.Collection: Love
Success doesn't change you... It reveals youCollection: Grief
Do what you really want to do. Don't play their game! Don't do what they want. Find your own way.Collection: Games
I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.Collection: Inspirational
Keep moving forward and do what you have to do for you.Collection: Moving
Love is one of the hardest words to say and one of the easiest to hear.Collection: Love Is
Love is not blind; it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Dream
I'm having too much fun today to worry about tomorrow.Collection: Fun
We're all damaged in our own way. Nobody's perfect. I think we're all somewhat screwy. Every single one of us.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Mom
Throughout my lifetime I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent.Collection: Broken Heart
You gotta be careful: don't say a word to nobody about nothing anytime ever.Collection: Be Careful
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.Collection: Love You
Ugliness is better than beauty. It lasts longer and in the end, gravity will get us all.Collection: Funny