Quotes from Johnny Depp

It's an odd thing when there is a fan page for my daughter who is not yet 13.

What I love to do is paint people's faces, y'know, their eyes. Because you want to find that emotion, see what's going on behind their eyes.

I may have a feather duster down my pants.

When I played Tonto in 'The Lone Ranger' and was playing the older Tonto, I would just leave the makeup on and go to sleep because it was a four or five hour job; it was, from the waist up, all over me.

'Edward Scissorhands' was tough to let go of because I found real safety in allowing myself to be that open, that honest. To explore purity. It was a hard one to walk away from.

I'm not Blockbuster Boy.

I never wanted to be the guy people looked at. I don't think of myself as being a celebrity; it's too mortifying.

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.

I have this fear of clowns, so I think that if I surround myself with them, it will ward off all evil.

There's a drive in me that won't allow me to do certain things that are easy.

I'm not sure I'm adult yet.

I'm a big fan of revenge, I think [Sweeney Todd] it's a story of a man who clearly has obsessions to avenge the horror that happened to him.

[on buying a private island] Money doesn't buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it.

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.

When kids hit one year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.

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.

Am I a romantic? I've seen "Wuthering Heights" ten times. I'm a romantic.

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.

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.

The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.

Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.

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.

It's a great honor that something that you took part in creating becomes this forever object.

I hope some day to make you all a cup of coffee. Alright, peace.