Johnny Depp

“I don't go anywhere without a book by James Joyce called 'Finnegan's Wake.'”

“I always have a decompression period at the end of a film. Sometimes it joyful, because you're just happy to be done. Or it can be melancholy.”

“Captain Jack Sparrow is like a cross between Keith Richards and Pepe Le Pew.”

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

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

“Lily's really together - she's a sharp kid and one of the smartest human beings I have ever met. Whatever she is doing, if she needs any advice, I'm there for her. Kids are going to make the...”

“When I played Tonto in 'The Lone Ranger' and was playing the older Tonto, I would just leave the makeup on and go to sleep because it was a four or five hour job; it was, from the waist up,...”

“With my kids, they're told 75 times a day that they're loved. One thing I know is they feel loved and secure and happy and needed and necessary and a part of something.”

“There are times when you see how ridiculous is this life, how ludicrous it is, you know, leaving your house every morning and being followed by paparazzi.”

“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.”

“I made odd noises as a child. Just did weird things, like turn off light switches twice. I think my parents thought I had Tourette's syndrome.”

“The commercial flight thing, it just gets a little weird when you're standing in line and suddenly you're not just a guy standing in line anymore - you become sort of 'novelty boy.'”

“I think everybody's nuts.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“I still approach a scene as one would approach a solo. There's nothing set or pat.”

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

“Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.”