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12 Insightful Johnny Depp Quotes That Prove He's More Than Just A Pretty Face

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12 Insightful Johnny Depp Quotes That Prove He's More Than Just A Pretty Face

We're all damaged in our own way. Nobody's perfect. I think we are all somewhat screwy, every single one of us.

We're all damaged in our own way. Nobody's perfect. I think we are all somewhat screwy, every single one of us.

— Johnny Depp, Playboy Interview: Johnny Depp

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We're all a mishmash of extremes. I know that I have demons. I don't know if I want to get rid of them altogether, but I would like to experience them in a different way. Maybe go face to face with them. I've never really had the time to go to therapy. Well, here and there. But not enough to help me.

— Johnny Depp, Johnny Be Good, Vanity Fair 1997

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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, Johnny Depp: Difficulties, Challenges and Success

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My body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story.

— Johnny Depp, Body Journal

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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, Johnny Be Good, Vanity Fair 1997

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Awards are not as important to me as when I meet a 10-year-old kid who says, "I love Captain Jack Sparrow.

— Johnny Depp, Playboy Interview: Johnny Depp

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Whenever you finish a character there's a sense of decompression and melancholy, where for a period of time you miss having been these other people. With Jimmy Bulger I had a similar thing, because you are these people for more hours in a day than you are yourself. There is always that period of saying goodbye, which I find uncomfortable.

— Johnny Depp, Johnny Depp is ready for his comeback

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When I was a kid back in Kentucky, we went to this church where my uncle preached. It was kind of a weird Baptist, full-on kind of place. People kept running up to the pulpit and grabbing his ankles and being saved. Lots of crying. Even then, at six or seven, I questioned how pure the emotion could be if it were on such display.

— Johnny Depp, Johnny Be Good, Vanity Fair 1997

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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 like Lawrence Krauss or Christopher Hitchens. and that’s it – simplicity, where the game of hollywood doesn’t exist.

— Johnny Depp, Johnny Depp is ready for his comeback

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The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.

— Johnny Depp, via IMDB

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Unless you’re in the room, you don’t know if it’s true.

— Johnny Depp, The Beloved: Winona Ryder

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I just don’t quite understand it [the press], really. I don’t understand the animal. It’s a strange, roundabout way of selling something; it leaves a foul taste... The thing that fascinates me is: who cares what an actor thinks?

— Johnny Depp, The Maverick King

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