Johnny Depp Quotes
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On Art (translation by MistressQuickly) from Le Figaro
2005
"In this field, considering all periods, the greatest one for me is still Picasso. For all kinds of reasons -- the way he questioned himself throughout his career, the way he worked with all the styles. I see him as a kind of god of painting. If one considers a period in the history art rather than an artist, I don't hesitate: I have a passion for the second half of the 19th century, for Impressionism. That doesn't stop me from also liking art from the immediate post-war period. Believe it or not, I like these paintings even when I don't understand them. I think Jackson Pollock showed a witty audacity in being the first to pour paint on a canvas and sell it for millions of dollars! Same thing for Andy Warhol: in launching this style of mechanical process of seriographic reproduction on canvas, which enabled him to multiply his "Marilyn" or his "Jackie" without intervening much himself. He earned a crazy amount of money. There is in all of this a kind of mocking which does not displease me!"
Talking on the Sleepy Hollow (1999) set about what it was like being dragged behind a carriage in the woods: "I wasn't afraid of getting hurt. I was just afraid that the horses may relieve themselves on the journey."
"I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it."
"When kids hit 1 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."
"This is a rumor-filled society and if people want to sit around and talk about whom I've dated, then I'd say they have a lot of spare time and should consider other topics... or masturbation."
"The character I've played, that I've responded to, there has been a lost-soul quality to them."
"Sure, I find it touching, honestly, but awards are not as important to me as when I meet a 10-year-old kid who says, 'I love Captain Jack Sparrow' ... That's real magic for me."
"The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? [Like] 'Republican party' [or] 'airplane food.'"
"On a film you start to get closer and closer with the people you're working with, and it becomes like this circus act or this travelling family."
"If you turn on the television and see the horrors that are happening to people in the world right now, I think there's no better time to strive to have some kind of hope through imagination. I think it's a time to close your eyes and try to make a change, or at least hope to make a change, or we're going to explode."
"I suppose nowadays it's all a question of surgery, isn't it? Of course the notion is beautiful, the idea of staying a boy and a child forever, and I think you can. 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."
"All the little films I've done that were perceived by Hollywood as these obscure, weird things, I always thought could appeal to a larger audience. I mean, box office is such a mystery to me that I can't... you know... I have enough -trouble doing my own gig. "
"Anything I've done up till 27 May, 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life."
On the money he makes: "You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal."
"I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do."
"One of the most incredible moments I've ever had was sitting in Vincent [Price]'s trailer... I was showing him this first-edition book I have of the complete works of Poe, with really amazing illustrations. Vincent was going nuts over the drawings, and he started talking about 'The Tomb of Ligeia.' Then he closed the book and began to recite it to me in this beautiful voice, filling the room with huge sounds. Such passion! I looked in the book later, and it was verbatim. Word perfect. It was a great moment. I'll never forget that."
"The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants."
"I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries.' Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots."
"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."
"Taken in context, what I was saying was that, compared to Europe, America is a very young country and we are still growing as a nation. It is a shame that the metaphor I used was taken so radically out of context and slung about irresponsibly by the news media. There was no anti-American sentiment. In fact, it was just the opposite. 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."
"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."
"My self-image still isn’t that 'all right'. No matter how many people go to see my movies I still have that idea that I’m that pale no-hoper that I used to be. A pale no-hoper that happens to be a little lucky now. Tomorrow it’ll be all over."
" I remember when my friend Sal first sprouted underarm hair. We were about 11, and I was very jealous. I still hold a grudge."
"I can remember when I finished 'Edward Scissorhands,' looking in the mirror as the girl was doing my make-up for the last time and thinking -- it was like the 90th or 89th day of shooting -- and I remember looking and going, 'Wow, this is it. I'm saying goodbye to this guy, I'm saying goodbye to Edward Scissorhands.' You know, it was kind of sad. But in fact, I think they're all still somehow in there."
"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."
When asked by James Lipton on _"Inside The Actor's Studio" (1987)_ what attracts him to funny hats: "I don't know, maybe I just read too much Dr. Seuss as a kid."
After being asked if he is a romantic: "Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic."
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