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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. "

Johnny Depp

Life

Music

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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. "

" Tomorrow it'll all be over, then I'll have to go back to selling pens again. "

Johnny Depp

Selling

Again

" I'm always for the Indian in the cowboy movie. Always. "

" When you disrespect Australian law, they will tell your firmly. Declare everything when you enter Australia. "

" I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled. "

" 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. "

" I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you're on it. "

" The commercial flight thing, it just gets a little weird when you're standing in line and suddenly you're not just a guy standing in line anymore - you become sort of 'novelty boy.' "

" I always have a decompression period at the end of a film. Sometimes it joyful, because you're just happy to be done. Or it can be melancholy. "

" 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. "

" 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

" I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and fascination with things like little children. I think we can keep that, and I think it's important to keep that part of staying young. But I also think it's great fun growing old. "

" I have a place that I get to go to in the Bahamas. It's the only place that guarantees total anonymity and freedom. "

" Over the years all these vampire movies have come out and nobody looks like a vampire anymore. "

" I never wanted to be the guy people looked at. I don't think of myself as being a celebrity; it's too mortifying. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I can focus on something like guitar or painting, I do. I started painting people I admire, like Kerouac, Bob Dylan, Nelson Algren, Marlon Brando, Patti Smith, my girl, my kids. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I marketed pens - on the phone. But the beauty of the gig was that you had to call these strangers and say, 'Hi, how ya doing?' You made up a name, like, 'Hey, it's Edward Quartermaine from California. You're eligible to receive this grandfather clock or a trip to Tahiti.' You promise them all these things if they buy a gross of pens. "

" 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. "

" What I love to do is paint people's faces, y'know, their eyes. Because you want to find that emotion, see what's going on behind their eyes. "

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

" When kids hit one year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit. "

" I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it. "

" When I met people they said, 'You do look like a hobo, but you smell really good.' "

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

Johnny Depp

Postpone

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