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" I was the guy who had been bouncing around the film industry for years, and I'd been lucky if five or 10 people would see my movies, so Captain Jack did a big flip for my career. "

Johnny Depp

Captain

People

Movies

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" 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. "

Johnny Depp

Things

Places

" I'm not sure I'm adult yet. "

Johnny Depp

Adult

Sure

" If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor', I beg you to slap me. "

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" Trips to the dentist - I like to postpone that kind of thing. "

Johnny Depp

Postpone

Kind

" I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste. "

" 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. "

Johnny Depp

Behavior

Choices

" At 13, I was wearing plain t-shirts. Then I used to steal my mom's clothing. She had all these crushed-velvet shirts with French-cut sleeves. And, like, seersucker bell-bottoms. "

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" Things go wrong for me all the time with technology. I'm not familiar enough with it, and I'm too old-school a brain to be able to figure it out. I'm dumb. Anything that I have to attack with my thumbs, for any period of time, makes me feel stupid. So, I try to avoid it, as much as possible, to protect my thumbs. "

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

Johnny Depp

Reason

Start

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