Quotes from Johnny Depp

I always felt like I was meant to have been born in another era, another time.

I mean, I think everybody should probably approach a film that it's another unwanted thing. That's going to be seared onto my brain for the rest of my life. Thank you for that.

Here's the thing - if Donald Trump is elected president of the United States, in a kind of historical way, it's exciting because we will see the actual last president of the United States. It just won't work after that.

There are these mythic unicorn-y tales of method acting, but Marlon [Brando] wanted to have a good time.

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'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.

There are times when you see how ridiculous is this life, how ludicrous it is, you know, leaving your house every morning and being followed by paparazzi.

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.

Music is still part of my life, but I hate the idea of people coming to see me play the guitar because they've seen me in movies. You want people who are listening to be only interested in the music.

I did do a film that I refer to as 'The Unpronounceable' by a guy named Yvan Attal with Charlotte Gainsbourg. I had a bit part in there. That was quite fun, doing scenes in French.

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.

On a film, you start to get closer and closer with the people you're working with, and it becomes like this circus act or this travelling family.

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.

How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in.

With my kids, they're told 75 times a day that they're loved. One thing I know is they feel loved and secure and happy and needed and necessary and a part of something.

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.

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

You gotta be careful: don't say a word to nobody about nothing anytime ever.

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.

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

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.

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.

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.