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" You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal. "
Johnny Depp
Your
Life
Money
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" Simplicity - that's what I want. It's been a rare commodity for me for a number of years, but I enjoy being able to hang out with my girl, read the newspaper, and sit back and start to read a book by someone I admire, like Lawrence Krauss or Christopher Hitchens. And that's it - simplicity, where the game of Hollywood doesn't exist. "
Johnny Depp
Game
Book
Simplicity
" It's such a funny thing when you see your daughter transitioning from your baby, your little girl, to suddenly being a young woman. If you're not really looking for it, you can miss it, and Lily-Rose is on that road already, and there's nothing I can do to stop it. "
Johnny Depp
Daughter
Road
Girl
" There is nothing on earth that could ever make me want to relive certain years of my life when I was young. "
Johnny Depp
Me
My Life
Nothing
" When you're confined to a TV series, and you have to play one character, it can make you insane. But it didn't affect me. I got out in time. "
Johnny Depp
Character
You
Time
" 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
" 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
" My job, as an actor, is to give the director options. You can only hope that the takes that you thought were the best were chosen. But, then again, if I don't watch it, I'll never know. "
Johnny Depp
Best
Hope
Job
" I went through various stages in my childhood, as we all do, various stages of obsessions with people and things. And I did. I wanted to be the first white Harlem Globetrotter. "
Johnny Depp
First
Through
White
" At my very core, I'm pretty shy. I just happen to have a weird job. "
Johnny Depp
Job
Weird
Shy
" If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color. "
Johnny Depp
Be Different
Color
Someone
" 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 detest jokes - when somebody tells me one, I feel my IQ dropping; the brain cells start to disappear. But something is funny when the person delivering the line doesn't know it's funny or doesn't treat it as a joke. Maybe it comes from a place of truth, or it's a sort of rage against society. "
Johnny Depp
Brain
Society
Me
" 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 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 pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face. "
Johnny Depp
Confusion
Try
Stay
" It's all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It's like you've met your reason to live. "
Johnny Depp
Child
World
You
" You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading. "
Johnny Depp
Life
Work
Broken
" 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
" 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
" 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
" I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do. "
Johnny Depp
Weird
Pretend
Captain
" When I auditioned for '21 Jump Street,' it was a last minute thing. I had one of the worst flus that I've ever experienced in my life, and I was forced to go to the audition, the screen test. "
Johnny Depp
Street
My Life
Life
" It's been insane. From Whitey Bulger to the Mad Hatter, you can imagine the schizophrenia. "
Johnny Depp
Schizophrenia
Mad
You
" 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 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
Beauty
Clock
" Nobody's ever made a film in the history of cinema where they weren't expecting some return on their dough. "
Johnny Depp
Film
Return
Nobody
" The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants. "
Johnny Depp
Love
Dogs
Enough
" There's a drive in me that won't allow me to do certain things that are easy. "
Johnny Depp
Allow
Drive
Things
" When you're doing a movie, your body doesn't allow you to get sick until you finish. "
Johnny Depp
You
Body
Doing
" Puberty was very vague. I literally locked myself in a room and played guitar. "
Johnny Depp
Room
Vague
Myself