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" I was a million percent in love with Edward Scissorhands. I remember looking in the mirror on the last day of shooting... and thinking how sad I was to be saying goodbye to Edward. "
Johnny Depp
Day
Goodbye
Sad
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" I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do. "
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" 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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" Puberty was very vague. I literally locked myself in a room and played guitar. "
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" If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor', I beg you to slap me. "
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" 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. "
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Time
" You start getting hit with some very interesting situations in life - you as a parent - when they approach that teenage area, which is frightening because you still have memories of that age and the things you were doing at that age... Please don't do what I did. "
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Life
" I never wanted to be the guy people looked at. I don't think of myself as being a celebrity; it's too mortifying. "
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" Captain Jack Sparrow is like a cross between Keith Richards and Pepe Le Pew. "
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" 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. "
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Work
Trying
" Tomorrow it'll all be over, then I'll have to go back to selling pens again. "
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Selling
Go
Again
" 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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Nobody
" The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants. "
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Dogs
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" People will say a movie bombed at the box office but I couldn't care less. "
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Box
Will
" You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal. "
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" 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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Life
Music
Me
" I've had the honor and the pleasure and gift of having known Elizabeth Taylor for a number of years. You know, you sit down with her, she slings hash, she sits there and cusses like a sailor, and she's hilarious. "
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Down
Gift
You
" There's an innocence to Ozzy Osbourne. He's mingling, but he's somewhat detached. "
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Innocence
Ozzy
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" I am an American. I love my country and have great hopes for it. It is for this reason that I speak candidly and sometimes critically about it. I have benefited greatly from the freedom that exists in my country, and for this, I am eternally grateful. "
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Love
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" The thing is, even if you're playing sort of a heightened character and playing inside sort of a heightened reality, you can still apply your own truths to those characters. "
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Own
Inside
Character
" There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be. "
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Future
Time
Money
" 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. "
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Mind
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Beauty
" 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. "
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Short
Experience
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" I don't go anywhere without a book by James Joyce called 'Finnegan's Wake.' "
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" 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
" 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. "
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Acting
Just
Lying
" 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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Construction
Time
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" The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.' "
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Airplane
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Food
" I think, as an actor, it is good to feel the fear of failing miserably. I think you should take that risk. Fear is a necessary ingredient in everything I do. But if I do 'Hamlet,' it will probably be in a small theater on a small stage, and it will have to be very, very soon because I'm getting a little long in the tooth for it. "
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Think
You
Fear
" I don't think it's anything you ever get used to... for many years, I could never sort of put my name in the same sort of category as the word 'famous' or anything like that. And I just found it very uncomfortable... if you get used to it, then something must be wrong. "
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" Everything is just very, very blurry. I've never had proper vision. "
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