Top 200 Johnny Depp Quotes (2025 Update)
Page 3 of 5

101. “Crazy people don’t know they’re crazy. I know I’m crazy, therefore I am not crazy. Isn’t that crazy?”

— Johnny Depp

102. “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

103. “I’m shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I’ve done everything I can to avoid it.”

— Johnny Depp

104. “Anything I’ve done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.”

— Johnny Depp

105. “I’m all for whatever it takes to get wherever you need to get with a character, as long as you don’t wipe it on me.”

— Johnny Depp

106. “I just happen to be a sucker for humor. So anywhere I can sneak in something that I find potentially interesting or funny I do it as much as I can get away with.”

— Johnny Depp

107. “People make great films. I just don’t have the eyes to watch them.”

— Johnny Depp

108. “The ultimate for me would be to do a feature that didn’t require any narrative structure.”

— Johnny Depp

109. “I don’t trust anyone who hasn’t been self-destructiv e in some way, and who hasn’t gone through some sort of bout of self-loathing. You’ve got to bang yourself around a bit to know yourself.”

— Johnny Depp

110. “There come a time, when good man must wear mask.”

— Johnny Depp

111. “Everything here is edible; even I’m edible. But that, dear children, is cannibalism, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies.”

— Johnny Depp

112. “I was always fascinated by people who are considered completely normal, because I find them the weirdest of all.”

— Johnny Depp

113. “I don’t drink hard liquor anymore, but I sometimes order Lagavulin just for the smell. It’s so good. It’s unbelievable.”

— Johnny Depp

114. “Do what you really want to do. Don’t play their game! Don’t do what they want. Find your own way.”

— Johnny Depp

115. “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

116. “School’s a weird thing. I’m not sure it works.”

— Johnny Depp

117. “If you really take a step back and observe people who are considered super-normal and watch them a bit, you’ll realize that they’re actually completely out of their minds! Most people are really nuts, and that’s fascinating.”

— Johnny Depp

118. “As soon as we fall in love and we realise we’ve met the one the rest of our lives can’t come soon enough. It’s not like you’re in a rush to get to the finish line, you’re in a rush to feel and experience everything and then do it all again.”

— Johnny Depp

119. “If they let me choose between you and the dog, I’ll choose the dog.”

— Johnny Depp

120. “I’m having too much fun today to worry about tomorrow.”

— Johnny Depp

121. “Ugliness is better than beauty. It lasts longer and in the end, gravity will get us all.”

— Johnny Depp

122. “I trust kids far more than I do adults. Kids give you the honest opinion. They tell the truth.”

— Johnny Depp

123. “The problem is that everybody treats teenagers like they’re stupid.”

— Johnny Depp

124. “I think everybody’s nuts.”

— Johnny Depp

125. “You never think you’re on the verge of disaster while you’re looking over the edge yourself. It’s your friends and family who are trying to get you to stop destroying yourself and after a while it kind of sank in and I just cleaned up my act.”

— Johnny Depp

126. “There’s a drive in me that won’t allow me to do certain things that are easy.”

— Johnny Depp

127. “For the actor, The Lee Strasberg Notes are an indispensable companion.”

— Johnny Depp

128. “Growing old is unavoidable, but never growing up is possible. I believe you can retain certain things from your childhood if you protect them – certain traits, certain places where you don’t let the world go.”

— Johnny Depp

129. “The challenge for me is still to do something that hasn’t been beaten into the movie going consciousness. Otherwise what am I in it for?”

— Johnny Depp

130. “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.”

— Johnny Depp

131. “There are 4 questions of value in life...”

— Johnny Depp

132. “This dress code should be mandatory for most events.”

— Johnny Depp

133. “When you realize you’re essentially you’re God, there ain’t nothing on earth more powerful than you, you can do anything you want.”

— Johnny Depp

134. “If you don’t like seeing pictures of violence towards animals being posted, you need to help stop the violence, not the pictures.”

— Johnny Depp

135. “France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they’ve forgotten all about it. I’m afraid that the American culture is a disaster.”

— Johnny Depp

136. “They’re all about where people come from. The only thing important is where somebody’s going.”

— Johnny Depp

137. “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

138. “Religion is a fascinating black hole to me.”

— Johnny Depp

139. “Puberty was very vague. I literally locked myself in a room and played guitar.”

— Johnny Depp

140. “I don’t think anybody’s necessarily ready for death. You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you’ve said what you wanted to say. Nobody wants to go out in mid-sentence.”

— Johnny Depp

141. “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.”

— Johnny Depp

142. “I’d rather fight a buzzsaw than dance.”

— Johnny Depp

143. “When I see someone who just follows their dream and succeeds, and just does basically what they want to do and doesn’t have to answer to anyone, obviously not harming anyone, that’s great.”

— Johnny Depp

144. “I’m not sure I’m adult yet.”

— Johnny Depp

145. “You’re looking at each and every potential corner for an air bubble to escape. Absolutely! You’re on the best of your game.”

— Johnny Depp

146. “Attention is a strange sort of being, anyway, the idea of attention if someone appreciates your work. It’s always nice that someone appreciates your work.”

— Johnny Depp

147. “Well, having no intelligence, I’m looking forward to gaining some, whether artificial, superficial or super-duper.”

— Johnny Depp

148. “I don’t think of myself as being a celebrity, it’s too mortifying. I have a hard time watching myself on screen and it’s getting worse. I can’t tell whether my work is good or not.”

— Johnny Depp

149. “Most people are really nuts and that’s fascinating to me.”

— Johnny Depp

150. “I’m not ‘Blockbuster Boy.’ I never wanted to be. I wasn’t looking for that...”

— Johnny Depp