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" 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. "
Johnny Depp
Problem
Beat
My Life
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" Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all. "
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" Tomorrow it'll all be over, then I'll have to go back to selling pens again. "
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" I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face. "
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" 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. "
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Time
Mechanic
" At my very core, I'm pretty shy. I just happen to have a weird job. "
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Shy
" 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. "
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" I always wanted to be a character actor rather than the poster boy that they tried to make me 100 years ago. An actor has a degree of responsibility to change for the audience, to give them something new each time, to surprise and not bore them. "
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" 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. "
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Character
Doing
" America is dumb. It's like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you - aggressive. My daughter is four; my boy is one. I'd like them to see America as a toy - a broken toy. Investigate it a little, check it out, get this feeling, and then get out. "
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Broken
Hurt
" I'm not Blockbuster Boy. "
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Boy
Blockbuster
" France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster. "
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Amazing
Great
History
" People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people. "
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Behavior
Choices
Me
" It's been insane. From Whitey Bulger to the Mad Hatter, you can imagine the schizophrenia. "
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Schizophrenia
Mad
You
" I've never felt particularly ambitious or driven, that's for sure, although I like to create stuff, whether it's a little doodle, a drawing, a small painting or a movie or a piece of music, so I suppose I'm driven by that. Everything I've done has felt very natural, and it's happened because it's happened. "
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Create
Drawing
Music
" Nobody's ever made a film in the history of cinema where they weren't expecting some return on their dough. "
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Film
Return
Nobody
" It's all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It's like you've met your reason to live. "
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Child
World
You
" 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. "
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Honesty
Long Time
Time
" There's an innocence to Ozzy Osbourne. He's mingling, but he's somewhat detached. "
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Innocence
Ozzy
Detached
" After I had done the first 'Pirates' movie and 'Secret Window,' I went on vacation to escape with my kiddies and my girl, and someone said that there was an island down the road for sale. I said, 'Oh well, let's go see it.' I looked at it, I walked on it, and I was done. It had to be. "
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Girl
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Vacation
" There is nothing on earth that could ever make me want to relive certain years of my life when I was young. "
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" 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. "
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Circus
Family
You
" 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. "
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Book
Found
Play
" Trips to the dentist - I like to postpone that kind of thing. "
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Postpone
Kind
Like
" When you have children, there is no room for lies, no room for anything but the truth. Anything other than that is a bad example, I believe. "
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You
Room
Children
" 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. "
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Music
Me
" The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants. "
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Love
Dogs
Enough
" I detest jokes - when somebody tells me one, I feel my IQ dropping; the brain cells start to disappear. But something is funny when the person delivering the line doesn't know it's funny or doesn't treat it as a joke. Maybe it comes from a place of truth, or it's a sort of rage against society. "
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Brain
Society
Me
" I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots. "
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" I don't go anywhere without a book by James Joyce called 'Finnegan's Wake.' "
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Anywhere
James
Wake