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" Over the years all these vampire movies have come out and nobody looks like a vampire anymore. "
Johnny Depp
Nobody
Looks
Movies
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" Puberty was very vague. I literally locked myself in a room and played guitar. "
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Vague
Myself
" 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. "
Johnny Depp
You
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Clock
" The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing. "
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World
Gossip
Kind
" Captain Jack Sparrow is like a cross between Keith Richards and Pepe Le Pew. "
Johnny Depp
Cross
Sparrow
Pew
" I'm not Blockbuster Boy. "
Johnny Depp
Boy
Blockbuster
" I did do a film that I refer to as 'The Unpronounceable' by a guy named Yvan Attal with Charlotte Gainsbourg. I had a bit part in there. That was quite fun, doing scenes in French. "
Johnny Depp
Guy
Did
Fun
" I may have a feather duster down my pants. "
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Pants
May
Feather
" You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal. "
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Life
Money
" Lily's really together - she's a sharp kid and one of the smartest human beings I have ever met. Whatever she is doing, if she needs any advice, I'm there for her. Kids are going to make their own decisions, but I guess that the only thing you can do as a parent is to offer support. And I do. "
Johnny Depp
Together
Advice
Support
" I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do. "
Johnny Depp
Weird
Pretend
Captain
" I still approach a scene as one would approach a solo. There's nothing set or pat. "
Johnny Depp
Nothing
Approach
Scene
" I'll take photographs with kids. People who want to take photographs with me. People who like the movies. People who supported me. I'll do that all day, all night, that's fine. But the bombardment of the paparazzi is just... I truly don't understand. It just feels like this kind of gluttonous, horrific sport. It's like sport. "
Johnny Depp
People
Day
Kind
" Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all. "
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Pirate
After
Good
" I made odd noises as a child. Just did weird things, like turn off light switches twice. I think my parents thought I had Tourette's syndrome. "
Johnny Depp
Think
Light
Thought
" 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. "
Johnny Depp
People
Find
Eyes
" I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didn't really appreciate life the way I should have, but fortunately I woke up. "
Johnny Depp
Appreciate
Family
Angry
" 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. "
Johnny Depp
America
Broken
Hurt
" 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. "
Johnny Depp
People
Change
Time
" I started out as a guitarist in the early '80s. "
Johnny Depp
Guitarist
Started
Out
" It's very, very important to me, no matter who the person is, to play that person with the utmost degree of truth that I'm able to bring. But playing a character like Jack Sparrow or Willy Wonka, that requires nothing but a degree of responsibility to the intent of the story - responsibility to the film-maker to deliver the goods. "
Johnny Depp
Story
Character
Truth
" 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. "
Johnny Depp
Down
Gift
You
" I moved from Kentucky to Miramar, Florida, at about 8. I think I was in second grade. I still had my Southern accent, and down there, you got to experience a melting pot in full fury. All the kids I hung out with were, like, Sicilian kids from Jersey and New York. "
Johnny Depp
New York
Down
You
" With my kids, they're told 75 times a day that they're loved. One thing I know is they feel loved and secure and happy and needed and necessary and a part of something. "
Johnny Depp
Know
Loved
One Thing
" The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants. "
Johnny Depp
Love
Dogs
Enough
" 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. "
Johnny Depp
Acting
Just
Lying
" If someone is being bullied or feels like an outsider, and they relate to something that I've done, even if it's just igniting a spark, that's great. I had that feeling as a kid. I was messed with no end. "
Johnny Depp
Feeling
Great
Kid
" 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. "
Johnny Depp
Love
Great
Grateful
" 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. "
Johnny Depp
Think
You
Fear
" 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. "
Johnny Depp
Change
Time
Responsibility
" 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. "
Johnny Depp
Stupid
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