Quotes from Johnny Depp

Wes Craven was the guy who gave me my start, from my perspective, for almost no reason in particular.

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.

When I can focus on something like guitar or painting, I do. I started painting people I admire, like Kerouac, Bob Dylan, Nelson Algren, Marlon Brando, Patti Smith, my girl, my kids.

I started out as a guitarist in the early '80s.

I think everybody's nuts.

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.

If there is any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's ok to be different.

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.

People will say a movie bombed at the box office but I couldn't care less.

"You can close your eyes to things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to things you don't want to feel."

Just keep moving forward and don't give a shit about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you.

It's amazing when you get to a certain age, and you talk about sleep in the same way you spoke about getting inebriated... I got eight hours last night. It was fantastic!

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 don't think of myself as being a celebrity, it's too mortifying. I have a hard time watching myself on screen and it's getting worse. I can't tell whether my work is good or not.

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.

Attention is a strange sort of being, anyway, the idea of attention if someone appreciates your work. It's always nice that someone appreciates your work.

When my daughter was ill in Great Ormond Street, it was the darkest period of my life.

Over the years all these vampire movies have come out and nobody looks like a vampire anymore.

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.

I think kids, in general as an audience, are the way forward because they're not sort of sullied by intellectual expectation or this or that. It's a very pure kind of response to the work.

Luckily I am very, very privileged and feel very lucky to be getting work and my kiddies are not feeling the brunt of any kind of horror that's going on today. So I'm super lucky.

Marlon [Brando] showed me that you could do the work and not have to shut yourself off from people or your family.

One of the most beautiful things in the world is seeing a mommy with her kids. There's nothing more beautiful, nothing more sublime.

She's kind of a walking poem, she's this perfect beauty...but at the same time very deep, very smart.