62 Inspirational Johnny Depp Quotes From Movies And Life

He’s covered every kind of character imaginable, and easily described as one of the world’s most celebrated film stars. Johnny Depp will forever be admired by critics and fans with his extravagant portrayals of outcasts and minorities and relentless talent for reaching new heights of the human imagination.

Johnny Depp was born in Kentucky, 1963 and is an American actor, producer and musician. His career began in music when his mother gave him a guitar at the age of 12. In 1980, he joined a band called The Kids, which later changed their name to Six Gun Method after moving to Los Angeles in pursuit of a record deal.

His first film role came in 1984 in A Nightmare on Elm Street. This initiated his teen idol status when the next role on television series 21 Jump Street came, from 1987 to 1990. His acting career took off soon after with popular movies including Edward Scissorhands, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Sleepy Hollow, Alice in Wonderland, Ed Wood and others. He is known for the multiple collaborations with acclaimed director Tim Burton, which have produced curious, imaginative and downright weird movies.

While he has always received praise for his performances, Depp’s commercial success reached new heights with his role as Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Carribean, which commenced in 2003 and continued for another five sequels. The star is also talented behind the camera, realised by fans when he began producing films during the 2010’s through his company, Infinitum Nihil. Depp has continued to work on his music career, forming rock supergroup, Hollywood Vampires with Alice Cooper and Joe Perry.

In 2012, Depp was one of the world’s biggest film stars and was listed by the Guinness World Records as the world’s highest-paid actor, with earnings of US$75 million. Aside from his fame, the star is passionate about humanitarian causes and contributes to many charities across the world.

Depp has learnt a lot throughout his busy career, and he’s paying it forward through these inspirational quotes he continues to provide, as they are initiated through movies and life.

1. I think everybody’s weird. We should celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.

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2. Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate.

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3. 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.

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4. You gotta be careful: don’t say a word to nobody about nothing anytime ever.

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5. Success doesn’t change you, it reveals you.

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6. One day the people that didn’t believe in you will tell everyone how they met you.

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7. My sickness is that I am fascinated my human behavior, by what’s underneath the surface, by the word’s inside the people.

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8. You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren’t allowed to be normal.

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9. There is a drive in me that won’t allow me to do certain things that are easy.

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10. One day the people who didn’t believe in you will tell everyone how they met you.

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11. 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.

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12. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing the enthusiasm.

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13. I found evil in myself a long time ago, and I’ve accepted it. We’re old friends.

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14. 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.

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15. Laugh as much as you breathe.

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16. 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.

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17. There are four questions of value in life… What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

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18. Money doesn’t buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it.

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

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

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

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22. My body is my journal and my tattoos are my story.

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23. Everything is just very, very blurry. I’ve never had proper vision.

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24. Love is not blind. It simply enables one to see things others fail to see.

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25. 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.

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26. Now, bring me that horizon.

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27. I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and fascination with things like little children. I think we can keep that, and I think it’s important to keep that part of staying young. But I also think it’s great fun growing old.

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28. 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.

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29. I think, as an actor, it is good to feel the fear of failing miserably. I think you should take that risk. Fear is a necessary ingredient in everything I do.

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30. Do what you really want to do. Don’t Play their game! Don’t do what they want. Find your own way.

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31. I’ve never felt particularly ambitious or driven, that’s for sure, although I like to create stuff, whether it’s a little doodle, a drawing, a small painting or a movie or a piece of music, so I suppose I’m driven by that.

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32. The thing is, even if you’re playing sort of a heightened character and playing inside sort of a heightened reality, you can still apply your own truths to those characters.

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33. 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.

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34. 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.

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35. Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can’t.

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36. I don’t trust anyone who hasn’t been self-destructive in some way. Who hasn’t gone through some sort of bout of self-loathing? You’ve got to bang yourself around a bit to know yourself.

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37. I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you’re on it.

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38. People cry not because they’re weak, it’s because they’ve been strong for too long.

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39. They say the world used to be bigger. The world’s still the same–there’s just less in it.

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40. There comes a time when a good man must wear a mask.

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41. 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.

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42. It’s only a bad day, not a bad life.

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43. I’m normal, well, semi-normal.

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44. I’m just an actor, and if I can leave something behind that my kids will be proud of, then that’s what I want. I don’t want my kids to be embarrassed by anything I’ve done.

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45. Just keep moving forward and don’t give a shit about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do for you.

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46. I think, as an actor, it is good to feel the fear of failing miserably. I think you should take that risk. Fear is a necessary ingredient in everything I do.

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47. I don’t think it’s anything you ever get used to… for many years, I could never sort of put my name in the same sort of category as the word ‘famous’ or anything like that. And I just found it very uncomfortable… if you get used to it, then something must be wrong.

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48. If you love two people at the same time, choose the second one because if you really loved the first, you wouldn’t have fallen for the second.

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49. I just don’t know if movies can ever be considered art, because there’s so much money involved… It’s all about commerce. I don’t think art can come from that place.

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50. People cry, not because they are weak. It is because they have been strong for too long.

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51. 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.

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52. Things in life are not always as they seem. When you listen, for instance, to someone talking, there is another voice beneath his words..even if you hear clearly what he is saying, the real truth is much deeper.

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53. It hurts so much to want something you can’t have.

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54. I started out printing silk screen t-shirts. I sold ink pens. I worked construction. I worked at a gas station. I pumped gas. I was a mechanic for a little bit. I went into sewers, down into sewer lines. I had a lot of somewhat unpleasant gigs for a time there.

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

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56. You can close your eyes to the things you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your heart to the things you don’t want to feel.

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57. 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.

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58. If you choose to lock your heart away, you’ll lose it for certain.

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59. We’re all damaged in our own way. Nobody’s perfect. I think we’re all somewhat screwy. Every single one of us.

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60. I’m having too much fun today to worry about tomorrow.

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61. Love as long as you live.

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62. The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem.

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