Top 200 Johnny Depp Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “I did mostly alcohol. There were drugs, too – pills – and there was a danger that I would go over the edge. I could have. I thank God I didn’t.”

— Johnny Depp

152. “My body is a journal in a way. It’s like what sailors used to do, where every tattoo meant something, a specific time in your life when you make a mark on yourself, whether you do it yourself with a knife or with a professional tattoo artist.”

— Johnny Depp

153. “You Can’t Plan the Kind of Deep Love That Results in Children. Fatherhood Was Not a Conscious Decision. It Was Part of the Wonderful Ride I Was on. It Was Destiny; Kismet. All the Math Finally Worked.”

— Johnny Depp

154. “The birth of my daughter, gave me life.”

— Johnny Depp

155. “I actually tell lies for a living. Exactly. I mean, that’s what acting is, really.”

— Johnny Depp

156. “I always had an affinity for lizards. I’ve always felt somewhat close to them. They’re reptiles. I find myself feeling somewhat reptilian at times.”

— Johnny Depp

157. “Every time I stand in front of mirror, I found my face too ugly, so I thought I have to get the role in some movies which cover my face with make up.”

— Johnny Depp

158. “I do trust women. I have a lot of women in my life. I have a mother. I have a woman. There’s a lot of women around me. And I do trust them. And they trust me, as far as I know.”

— Johnny Depp

159. “As you get older, you recognize the erotic nature of the vampire and the idea of the undead.”

— Johnny Depp

160. “I am an American. I love my country and have great hopes for it. It is for this reason that I speak candidly and sometimes critically about it. I have benefited greatly from the freedom that exists in my country and for this I am eternally grateful.”

— Johnny Depp

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

— Johnny Depp

162. “The idea of dancing is the only thing that scares me.”

— Johnny Depp

163. “All men would be cowards if they only had the courage.”

— Johnny Depp

164. “The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn’t mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.”

— Johnny Depp

165. “I got to take my kids to the London eye with no one looking at me like I was Johnny Depp. They did look at me like I was some kind of sicko walking around with beautiful kids, but I had a perfect disguise.”

— Johnny Depp

166. “The quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter in LA. I would never raise any child there.”

— Johnny Depp

167. “The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.”

— Johnny Depp

168. “There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It’s really the first time I’ve thought about the future and what it could be.”

— Johnny Depp

169. “The term ‘serious actor’ is kind of an oxymoron, isn’t it? Like ‘Republican party’ or ‘airplane food.’”

— Johnny Depp

170. “Here I was going to work with Pacino thinking, “I’m not going to get lucky twice. There’s no way. This guy is going to hand me my ass.” He looks like the kind of guy who’s going to hand you your ass. It’s Al Pacino.”

— Johnny Depp

171. “It’s absolutely fine when Wile E. Coyote walks in with a band-aid on his head, after a 3,000-pound rock is dropped on him. That is what Ed Wood meant by the suspension of disbelief.”

— Johnny Depp

172. “America is dumb, it’s like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you, aggressive.”

— Johnny Depp

173. “I wasn’t into the lunchbox and thermos ski slope, and that’s where I was going.”

— Johnny Depp

174. “Love is one of the hardest words to say and one of the easiest to hear.”

— Johnny Depp

175. “I’m scared of boogers. If anyone ever showed me a booger I’d smash their face in.”

— Johnny Depp

176. “They stick you with those names, those labels – ‘rebel’ or whatever; whatever they like to use. Because they need a label; they need a name. They need something to put the price tag on the back of.”

— Johnny Depp

177. “I hope some day to make you all a cup of coffee. Alright, peace.”

— Johnny Depp

178. “I’ve been told I smell good. I don’t look like I smell good.”

— Johnny Depp

179. “No one wants to go out mid-sentence.”

— Johnny Depp

180. “I’ve always been frightened of karaoke, so I’ve never tried it. Karaoke scares the hell out of me!”

— Johnny Depp

181. “Why is the RUM always gone.”

— Johnny Depp

182. “I was never a cokehead or anything like that. I always despised that drug. I thought it was a waste of time, pointless.”

— Johnny Depp

183. “My kids, they’re my energy, my soul, and my nicest friend.”

— Johnny Depp

184. “Over the years all these vampire movies have come out and nobody looks like a vampire anymore.”

— Johnny Depp

185. “I certainly had this fascination with monsters and vampires as did Tim and whatever this darkness, this mystery, this intrigue. And then, as you get older, you recognize the erotic nature of the vampire and the idea of the undead.”

— Johnny Depp

186. “I love the idea of changing my look. I think one owes it to the audience, to go out there and give them something different each time, so as not to bore them to death.”

— Johnny Depp

187. “I’ve been lucky enough to work with a make-up artist, Joel Harlow, who you can throw anything at. I said, “Joel, I need to go to the London eye with my children and I want to look like a roadie from Lynyrd Skynyrd.””

— Johnny Depp

188. “I condition myself to believe that once the scene is done, once the movie is done, my job is done, and whatever happens after that is none of my business.”

— Johnny Depp

189. “I just watched cartoons for three years, and that had a strong affect on me.”

— Johnny Depp

190. “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

191. “I really loved the idea of playing opposite Marlon Brando and being the crazy one.”

— Johnny Depp

192. “I found a girl, fell in love, she had a baby, and i fell in love again.”

— Johnny Depp

193. “I literally went from being unable to play my rent to being on a plane the next day, being paid peanuts.”

— Johnny Depp

194. “If you catch me saying ‘I am a serious actor,’ I beg you to slap me.”

— Johnny Depp

195. “I mean, I think everybody should probably approach a film that it’s another unwanted thing. That’s going to be seared onto my brain for the rest of my life. Thank you for that.”

— Johnny Depp

196. “It’s an odd thing when there is a fan page for my daughter who is not yet 13.”

— Johnny Depp

197. “It’s a great honor that something that you took part in creating becomes this forever object.”

— Johnny Depp

198. “Whenever you have a photo shoot or something like that, it’s like-you just feel dumb. It’s just so stupid.”

— Johnny Depp

199. “Pretty much any drug you can name, I’ve done it.”

— Johnny Depp

200. “I had just had a daughter, who was three or three-and-half years old, and I had been watching nothing but cartoons. That’s really it. There was no YouTube. You’re in France and you’re raising a kid, so you break out the Tex Avery.”

— Johnny Depp