9 Johnny Depp Quotes on Creativity

Johnny Depp quotes on creativity

3. Growing old is unavoidable, but never growing up is possible. I believe you can retain certain things from your childhood if you protect them - certain traits, certain places where you don't let the world go. (2004)

16. I like the idea that I can make a drawing or I can make a painting or I can write notes, write my sort of journal thing, and someday my kid will have that. (1999)

18. I don't necessarily want to always play the leading man - I'd like to shave my head and sew my eyeballs shut. (1988)

21. I don't want to make a career of taking my shirt off. I'd like to shave off all my hair, even my eyebrows, try it that way. (1988)

32. For a lot of years, I was really freaked out. Maybe I took it all too seriously, you know? I was freaked out about being turned into a product. That really used to bug me. Now, more and more, I enjoy the process. Creating a character, working that character into a scene, into the movie. I mean, the last couple of things have been just a ball. (2004)

41. I just want something different. I want to be surprised. I want something that doesn't feel formulaic or beaten to death. (2004)

44. The challenge for me is still to do something that hasn't been beaten into the moviegoing consciousness. Otherwise what am I in it for?' (2004)

52. Strangely, even when I was miserable in my own life, I usually loved being on a film set and I truly revelled in the atmosphere of working with the director and the actors in creating something. Making films was always a refuge for me because I was totally focused on the work and not thinking about my own problems. (2004)

169. I want to do kiddie movies now. I'm fed up with adult movies - most of them stink. At a certain point with movies it becomes all about mathematics: this has to lead up to this, this has to lead up to that - you're always bound by some kind of formula. But since having kids and watching lots of animated cartoons and all those great old Disney films, I think they're better, they're much better. They're more fun and take more risks. Even things like Shrek - it's really funny and well made and intelligent.