Johnny Depp Quotes on Identity

18 quotes

  1. I essentially said the United States is a very young country compared with Europe. We're still growing. That's it. I wouldn't say anything anti-American. I'm an American, and I love my country. (2004)

  2. I'm not a Blockbuster boy, I never wanted to be. (1999)

  3. I grew up in a very different kind of family environment although I didn't know I was living a weird kind of existence until I would go to other kids' homes and see how they lived. I also felt very alienated and isolated in school and some kids and one particular teacher would love to pick on me. So that made me pretty defensive and angry in some ways and you want to do anything to escape that kind of aggression you're experiencing. (2004)

  4. That was the dark side of me and a pretty dismal time in my life. It's like someone you used to know and wonder why things looked so ugly from his perspective. (2004)

  5. The same moment your child is born, you're born. You're brand-new, because you are revealed finally to yourself. You're meeting yourself for the first time. And it's about being okay with yourself, not hating yourself anymore. (2006)

  6. It would be a shame to ruin her last name [by getting married]. It's so perfect - Vanessa Paradis. So beautiful. It would be such a drag to stick her with Paradis-Depp. It's like a flat note. (2004)

  7. I pretty much fell in love with Vanessa the moment I set eyes on her. As a person, I was pretty much a lost cause at that point of my life. She turned all that around for me with her incredible tenderness and understanding. Very quickly, I realised I couldn't live without her. She made me feel like a real human being instead of someone Hollywood had manufactured. It sounds incredibly corny and phoney, but that's exactly what happened to me and what she has meant to me. (2004)

  8. I wasn't the best kid in the world, but I wasn't an ax murderer, either. (1988)

  9. The real movie stars were Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Spencer Tracy, Montgomery Clift. How could I put myself in the same category as Clark Gable? Tom Cruise is a great movie star. Do I consider myself a movie star? I consider myself a guy with a good job, an interesting job. (2004)

  10. Especially in the beginning, they have to be able to label the product. So they just go -'Rebel. This one's a rebel.' Wow, I had no idea! There's that hideous pressure they hit you with initially, based on your image and how you look, and I never tended that garden. I was always scared shitless of that - it's really limiting and very dangerous. (2003)

  11. For many years they said I was a wild man. Now they say I'm a former wild man, former bad boy, former rebel. I guess 'former' because now I'm a dad. The media tries to stuff you into a mold. It happens to everybody. (2004)

  12. My face - I see it in the mirror when I wash it every morning. It's an okay face. (1988)

  13. I was more interested in music than anything else. Music was like life. I had found a reason to live. (2004)

  14. 'm attracted to the people who are considered freaks. Since I was young, I've identified with characters considered by 'normal' society to be outcasts and oddballs. (1999)

  15. never considered myself an outsider. But I definitely didn't consider myself an insider. (2006)

  16. I'm going to do everything I can - fight tooth and nail - to not be put in some teen-idol category. (1988)

  17. Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' 10 times. I'm a romantic.

  18. I don't pretend to be 'Captain Weird', I just do what I do.

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