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" The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants. "
Johnny Depp
Love
Dogs
Enough
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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. "
Johnny Depp
Challenge
Work
Trying
" The idea of dancing is the only thing that scares me. "
Johnny Depp
Idea
Thing
Scares
" Wes Craven was the guy who gave me my start, from my perspective, for almost no reason in particular. "
Johnny Depp
Me
Reason
Start
" 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. "
Johnny Depp
Age
Interesting
Life
" 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. "
Johnny Depp
Own
Inside
Character
" I'm just an actor, and if I can leave something behind that my kids will be proud of, then that's what I want. I don't want my kids to be embarrassed by anything I've done. "
Johnny Depp
I Can
Will
Want
" 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
" 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'm not Blockbuster Boy. "
Johnny Depp
Boy
Blockbuster
" For me, it's always more difficult and slightly exposing to play something that's close to yourself. I always like to try to hide, just because I can't stand the way I look. "
Johnny Depp
Yourself
Hide
Look
" 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
" I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do. "
Johnny Depp
Weird
Pretend
Captain
" 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
" 'Edward Scissorhands' was tough to let go of because I found real safety in allowing myself to be that open, that honest. To explore purity. It was a hard one to walk away from. "
Johnny Depp
Tough
Walk
Safety
" 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. "
Johnny Depp
Women
Men
Power
" It's been insane. From Whitey Bulger to the Mad Hatter, you can imagine the schizophrenia. "
Johnny Depp
Schizophrenia
Mad
You
" It's an odd thing when there is a fan page for my daughter who is not yet 13. "
Johnny Depp
Who
Daughter
Fan
" With Ed Wood, it was this sort of blending of Ronald Reagan, the Tin Man from 'The Wizard of Oz,' and Casey Kasem. "
Johnny Depp
Ronald Reagan
Man
Wood
" 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'd rather fight a buzzsaw than dance. "
Johnny Depp
Fight
Dance
Than
" 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. "
Johnny Depp
Famous
Uncomfortable
You
" 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. "
Johnny Depp
You
Room
Children
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Johnny Depp
Circus
Family
You
" I do realise and understand very well on a profound level how lucky I am and what a privileged position it is and what it's done ultimately for me, my family and my kids. But at the same time, there are moments in a man's life when you just kind of want to feel somewhat normal. "
Johnny Depp
Life
Man
Moments
" I hate watching myself on screen. I can't stand it. "
Johnny Depp
Screen
Myself
Hate
" 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. "
Johnny Depp
Trying
Run
Business
" Escapism is survival to me. "
Johnny Depp
Escapism
Survival
Me
" When I played Tonto in 'The Lone Ranger' and was playing the older Tonto, I would just leave the makeup on and go to sleep because it was a four or five hour job; it was, from the waist up, all over me. "
Johnny Depp
Leave
Makeup
Sleep