Quotes by Johnny Depp

"The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing."

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

"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."

"There's a drive in me that won't allow me to do certain things that are easy."

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

"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."

"You do the work and you want people to see it; but, um while I'm doing the work, the result doesn't matter at all to me. Ultimately, I don't, I don't care whether the film is - you know - some big giant box-office bonanza and I don't care if its a complete flop. To me, when a film gets made and it's actually finished it's a success. They're all a success in their own way."

"I think everybody's nuts."

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

"I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do."

"I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something."

"I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"There's no truth anymore."

"Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for."

"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."

"As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too."