Top 200 Johnny Depp Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “If you ever have to choose between loving two people, always pick the second. If you really loved the first, you wouldn’t have fallen in love with the second.”

— Johnny Depp

52. “For me, ambition has become a dirty word. I prefer hunger. To be hungry- great. To have hopes, dreams- great.”

— Johnny Depp

53. “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

54. “Luckily I am very, very privileged and feel very lucky to be getting work and my kiddies are not feeling the brunt of any kind of horror that’s going on today. So I’m super lucky.”

— Johnny Depp

55. “If there’s any message, it is ultimately that it’s okay 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

56. “Once you get on the ship, everything is fine. Once you get on land, everything is not so fine.”

— Johnny Depp

57. “There is nothing on earth that could ever make me want to relive certain years of my life when I was young.”

— Johnny Depp

58. “I know exactly what I want. Everything. Calm, peace, tranquility, freedom, fun, happiness. If I could make all that one word, I would – a many-syllabled word.”

— Johnny Depp

59. “My recipe for success is chance, basically. Just luck. It’s a miracle that people still hire me after some of the stuff I’ve gotten away with. Honestly!”

— Johnny Depp

60. “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.”

— Johnny Depp

61. “Trips to the dentist – I like to postpone that kind of thing.”

— Johnny Depp

62. “I may have a feather duster down my pants.”

— Johnny Depp

63. “I don’t like watching myself in the movies because I don’t like being aware of the product. I like the process. I enjoy that.”

— Johnny Depp

64. “I have toyed with the idea of playing it straight. But, like I say, I really believe we are all out of our minds at some level.”

— Johnny Depp

65. “Every filmmaker’s different, every filmmaker has a different approach.”

— Johnny Depp

66. “They tell you to be careful because maybe you don’t want to meet your heroes. I’ve met pretty much every one, and I’ve never been let down.”

— Johnny Depp

67. “Even when you’re down and blue, just remember that someone out there loves you, even if you don’t know it and even if you haven’t yet met them. There’s someone out there waiting for you, remember that and keep faith. You’ll get there.”

— Johnny Depp

68. “I’m attracted to the extreme light and the extreme dark. I’m interested in the human condition and what makes people tick. I’m interested in the things people try to hide.”

— Johnny Depp

69. “How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in.”

— Johnny Depp

71. “I’d just thank the people out there who have been with my up-and-down, weird-road, strange career and supported me and stuck with me all these years. I mean, they’re my boss. That’s what keeps me working.”

— Johnny Depp

72. “There were so many great teachers that had so much to offer. The idea of being rigid, why would you do that? People have their things, but why be rigid with any education when you can take things from here and take things from there?”

— Johnny Depp

73. “It’s impossible to consider myself a producer. I can barely produce an English muffin, in the morning.”

— Johnny Depp

74. “What happens to me when I read a script, when something grabs hold of me, I start getting these flashes of people or places or things or images...”

— Johnny Depp

75. “You can go out and try to do the best work that you can do within the context of what that is, but it’s really gotta be about the work and what you’re focusing on.”

— Johnny Depp

76. “Somehow you’ve been voted something for a magazine, and it’s a complete mystery to me. I mean, I wake up and I have to look at that head when I brush my teeth every morning. And it’s weird and it’s unpleasant at times.”

— Johnny Depp

77. “Kids accept a lot more, and they buy it, because they’re free.”

— Johnny Depp

78. “I’ve thought of doing many things in my life, under the influence of life, and I’ve never actually thought of straddling two carriages while they’re moving.”

— Johnny Depp

79. “The idea of directing a film is a strange one for me. I feel anti-mathematical, in a way, in that sense. I don’t like when things make sense. I prefer if they don’t.”

— Johnny Depp

80. “Tomorrow it’ll all be over, then I’ll have to go back to selling pens again.”

— Johnny Depp

81. “The only responsibility I feel is to deliver something that’s new or at least to attempt that. The real responsibility is to entertain and to try and make people laugh.”

— Johnny Depp

82. “I think, for me as an actor, if you get to a place where you’re satisfied, you’re happy with it, then you’re dead. It’s over. You’re not hungry anymore. You won’t try things anymore.”

— Johnny Depp

83. “Ironically, it was only maybe a year prior to Tim calling I had re-read Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, and what I took away from it was these very strange, little cryptic nuggets that he’d thrown in there.”

— Johnny Depp

84. “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.”

— Johnny Depp

85. “An actor shouldn’t have to leave the set and go home and write a bunch of stuff for a bunch of other people, the next day. I found it very unpleasant.”

— Johnny Depp

86. “While they’d be setting up shots, suddenly, there were 17 make-up chicks, just listening to Marlon telling these amazing stories that were probably lies. He was a fascinating individual. I learned a lot from him.”

— Johnny Depp

87. “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

88. “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

89. “I’d get very nervous and uncomfortable in social situations and the only way I could feel at all normal was, well, to drink my guts out.”

— Johnny Depp

90. “People in life, when they have a tendency to exaggerate or lie or whatever, you always sort of notice that their voice goes up quite high.”

— Johnny Depp

91. “The weirdest thing in the world is to see some guy who is just super earnest.”

— Johnny Depp

92. “Any man who had to carry a child would cave in around month two.”

— Johnny Depp

93. “I really love the experience of moving things around, in terms of being a director.”

— Johnny Depp

94. “It’s good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don’t think I can handle being here all the time, it’s pretty nutty.”

— Johnny Depp

95. “I don’t do well with modern films, to be honest. Opening credits, and I’m just gone.”

— Johnny Depp

96. “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

97. “I still love the layers of cinema whether it’s 35mm or 16mm or 8mm, super 8 which I love. I love the grain. If I had my druthers I’d film everything in kodachrome.”

— Johnny Depp

98. “I always figured that once I wrapped a film, then anything beyond that is none of my business. If I can avoid seeing the final product, then all I have in my head is feeling good about the experience.”

— Johnny Depp

99. “For me, the question was, how can one take a live-action performance and put it in the parameter of one of those cartoons? How much can you get away with?”

— Johnny Depp

100. “An actor needs to be not remotely anywhere close to in control, and a filmmaker has to be totally in control.”

— Johnny Depp