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| _______________________________________________________________::Quotes:: Johnny's penchant for the offbeat role, where he could showcase his creativity and also grow as an artist, is what secured my place in this world as a longtime fan. This page will depict aspects of his life, personal interests and his exceedlingly unique road to success as an actor. :;Quotes From Him:: "I don't ever want to get to a place where I feel satisfied. I think if I do that, it will all be over." - December 1987, Before They Were Famous "My face. I see it in the mirror when I wash it every morning. It's an okay face." - Rolling Stone 1998 Narcolepsy: I though I might have had it at one point in my life, but I found out that I was really just rather bored." - Sassy, May 1990 Regarding Edward Scissorhands: "I still have the leather suit, and the hands. At least I have something to fall back on. If things don't work out, in a couple of years I may be doing birthday parties at McDonald's -- as Edward. You know, 200 bucks a party." - New York Times, 1991 "I have separation anxiety when I pee sometimes. Saying goodbye to the night before." Film Threat, 1994 "I've always respected tattooing as an art form. I always did it as part of an art that you wear, as a kind of journal. Your body is your journal." - Empire, 1995 "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." "I'll never understand the animal, the machine of Hollywood business. And I don't want to understand it. It's like joining a club, a clique just because everyone else is in it. You don't have any particular interest in it, and it has nothing to do with who you are as a person. You just join it because it's the thing to do." "My two-year-old boy thinks his daddy is a pirate disguised as Willy Wonka." - Total Film, 2005 "I wanted to be Evel Knievel, but I was going to change my name to Awful Knawful" "I wanted to be Barnabas Collins and I wanted the cane with the wolf's head on it. For my parents, that must have been a very scary thing. 'Where did we go wrong?' " "There was this vicious woman, a teacher. If you weren’t in her little handpicked clique, you were ridiculed and picked on. She was brutal and unjust. One day she told me to do something, I can’t remember what. Her tone was nasty. She got very loud in my face in front of the rest of the class and tried to embarrass me. I saw what she was doing, that she was trying to ridicule me. I turned around and walked away. As I did, I dropped my drawers and mooned her." "I don't want somebody who's writing out checks to limit me, to put me in a herd of people who can only do one thing. I don't want to be limited by other people's opinions. I don't necessarily want to always play the leading man -- I'd like to shave my head and sew my eyeballs shut." |
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| ::Quotes About Him:: He fights hard for what he believes in, and he has a tendency to fight for other people as well, which sometimes puts another strand of gray in my hair." Jump Street Producer - Carson "When you get a disproportionate amount of praise, there's nothing you can feel inside yourself that matches up. You want to say, 'Please, blow out that candle on your altar for me and just take care of yourself.' That's why he's rebellious." - Mary Stuart Masterson on her Benny & Joon costar Johnny didn't ignore his fans, he brought them with him. He was smart about it. He took this large group of people weaned on formula TV and exposed them to things exciting and new." Nicolas Cage "This is for us, Johnny. No matter what happens tonight, this is for us because, I mean, you know, if you play tennis by yourself it doesn't work. That guy is the best young actor in this town. Not only that, he comes in prepared, he's ready to work, and he's willing to take chances, and I love him." Martin Landau accepting his Golden Globe award for "Ed Wood" in 1996. "Johnny's particular path in life is to constantly nudge people awake. The films he chooses force you to reconsider what you think of the world. What amazes me is that the critics are always surprised by Johnny. It's like they don't really watch what's there. They don't understand how good an actor he is. He doesn't cheat by giving you all those cheap emotions. He won't make you comfortable - for him that would be a foot in the grave." - Terry Gilliam "I think working with a man like Johnny Depp, who is a delightful person to be with, away from the set, so to speak, as a companion, and is an extraordinarily versatile actor—when you’ve done as much as I have, you do know within minutes whether it’s real or not. It certainly is with him. Total involvement, total dedication—it is all there." - Christopher Lee "...he's just about the nicest guy on the goddamn planet. He's generous, considerate, modest, brave, intelligent, good-hearted, creative, funny, gentle, wise, loving, loyal, hard-working, and almost unbearably cool". - Gregory David Roberts (Shantaram author) "Johnny Depp, so often described as androgynously beautiful, is really more like a male cat, a creature so sure of himself that his more masculine traits aren't the first things you notice about him...." - Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com |
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