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72 of the Best Johnny Depp Quotes to Inspire You Today
Johnny Depp, famous for his portrayal of strange and eccentric characters such as Captain Jack Sparrow and Edward Scissorhands, is undoubtedly one of the most popular stars in Hollywood. Growing up, Johnny Depp faced many hardships and before he became a big thing in Hollywood, he used to make ends meet by selling pens and having odd end jobs. Today, he is rated as one of the most successful actors in Hollywood. Johnny can only go up from here!
Today, we will share with you some of the best inspiring Johnny Depp quotes on love, life and success.
Here are 72 Inspiring Quotes by Johnny Depp:
1. “One day the people who didn’t believe in you will tell everyone how they met you.”
2. “Laugh as much as you breathe.”
3. “Do what you really want to do. Don’t Play their game! Don’t do what they want. Find your own way.”
4. “It’s only a bad day, not a bad life.”
5. “Just keep moving forward and don’t give a shit about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do for you.”
6. “I think everybody’s weird. We should celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.”
7. “Success doesn’t change you, it reveals you.”
8. “Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate.”
9. “I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you’re on it.”
10. “Me, I’m dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, It’s the honest ones you have to watch out for.”
11. “If you love two people at the same time, choose the second one because if you really loved the first, you wouldn’t have fallen for the second.”
12. “You can close your eyes to the things you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your heart to the things you don’t want to feel.”
13. “It hurts so much to want something you can’t have.”
14. “We’re all damaged in our own way. Nobody’s perfect. I think we’re all somewhat screwy. Every single one of us.”
15. “People cry, not because they are weak. It is because they have been strong for too long.”
16. “There comes a time when a good man must wear a mask.”
17. “Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can’t.”
18. “Now, bring me that horizon.”
19. “I just try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.”
20. “My body is my journal and my tattoos are my story.”
21. “I found evil in myself a long time ago, and I’ve accepted it. We’re old friends.”
22. “My sickness is that I am fascinated my human behavior, by what’s underneath the surface, by the word’s inside the people.”
23. “You gotta be careful: don’t say a word to nobody about nothing anytime ever.”
24. “There is a drive in me that won’t allow me to do certain things that are easy.”
25. “There are four questions of value in life… What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.”
26. “Love is not blind. It simply enables one to see things others fail to see.”
27. “I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it’s going to work or whether I’m going to fall flat on my face.”
28. “They say the world used to be bigger. The world’s still the same–there’s just less in it.”
29. “I think, as an actor, it is good to feel the fear of failing miserably. I think you should take that risk. Fear is a necessary ingredient in everything I do.”
30. “I’m normal, well, semi-normal.”
31. “If you choose to lock your heart away, you’ll lose it for certain.”
32. “The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem.”
33. “I started out printing silk screen t-shirts. I sold ink pens. I worked construction. I worked at a gas station. I pumped gas. I was a mechanic for a little bit. I went into sewers, down into sewer lines. I had a lot of somewhat unpleasant gigs for a time there.”
34. “I don’t think it’s anything you ever get used to… for many years, I could never sort of put my name in the same sort of category as the word ‘famous’ or anything like that. And I just found it very uncomfortable… if you get used to it, then something must be wrong.”
35. “If someone is being bullied or feels like an outsider, and they relate to something that I’ve done, even if it’s just igniting a spark, that’s great. I had that feeling as a kid. I was messed with no end.”
36. “I’m just an actor, and if I can leave something behind that my kids will be proud of, then that’s what I want. I don’t want my kids to be embarrassed by anything I’ve done.”
37. “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.”
38. “I think, as an actor, it is good to feel the fear of failing miserably. I think you should take that risk. Fear is a necessary ingredient in everything I do.”
39. “I’ve never felt particularly ambitious or driven, that’s for sure, although I like to create stuff, whether it’s a little doodle, a drawing, a small painting or a movie or a piece of music, so I suppose I’m driven by that.”
40. “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.”
41. “Simplicity – that’s what I want. It’s been a rare commodity for me for a number of years, but I enjoy being able to hang out with my girl, read the newspaper, and sit back and start to read a book by someone I admire.”
42. “You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren’t allowed to be normal.”
43. “As a teenager, I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.”
44. “I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.”
45. “Everything is just very, very blurry. I’ve never had proper vision.”
46. “The thing is, even if you’re playing sort of a heightened character and playing inside sort of a heightened reality, you can still apply your own truths to those characters.”
47. “Love as long as you live.”
48. “I’m attracted to the extreme light and the extreme dark. I’m interested in the human condition and what makes people tick. I’m interested in the things people try to hide.”
49. “I don’t trust anyone who hasn’t been self-destructive in some way. Who hasn’t gone through some sort of bout of self-loathing? You’ve got to bang yourself around a bit to know yourself.”
50. “Things in life are not always as they seem. When you listen, for instance, to someone talking, there is another voice beneath his words..even if you hear clearly what he is saying, the real truth is much deeper.”
51. “I just don’t know if movies can ever be considered art, because there’s so much money involved… It’s all about commerce. I don’t think art can come from that place.”
52. “I don’t think anybody’s necessarily ready for death. You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you’ve said what you wanted to say. Nobody wants to go out in mid-sentence.”
53. “I’m having too much fun today to worry about tomorrow.”
54. “When I see someone who just follows their dream and succeeds, and just does basically what they want to do and doesn’t have to answer to anyone, obviously not harming anyone, that’s great.”
55. “Money doesn’t buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it.”
56. “Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.”
57. “One of the greatest pieces of advice I’ve ever gotten in my life was from my mom. When I was a little kid there was a kid who was bugging me at school and she said “Okay, I’m gonna tell you what to do. If the kid’s bugging you and puts his hands on you; you pick up the nearest rock.”
58. “I think everybody’s weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.”
59. “We don’t always cry because we are weak, sometimes we cry because we have been strong, brave and courageous for way too long.”
60. “Love is one of the hardest words to say and one of the easiest to hear.”
61. “The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.”
62. “If they let me choose between you and the dog, I’ll choose the dog.”
63. “If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.”
64. “Even when you’re down and blue, just remember that someone out there loves you, even if you don’t know it and even if you haven’t yet met them. There’s someone out there waiting for you, remember that and keep faith. You’ll get there.”
65. “Most people are really nuts and that’s fascinating to me.”
66. “School’s a weird thing. I’m not sure it works.”
67. “It’s important to keep challenging myself and try to come up with some new face every now and again.”
68. “I just watched cartoons for three years, and that had a strong effect on me.”
69. “Ugliness is better than beauty. It lasts longer and in the end, gravity will get us all.”
70. “I’m an old-fashioned guy… I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.”
71. “I was poisoning myself with alcohol and medicating myself. I was trying to numb things. I was trying not to feel things, and that’s ridiculous. It’s one of the dumbest things you can do, because all you’re doing is postponing the inevitable. Someday you’ll have to look all those things in the eye rather than try to numb the pain.”
72. “I actually tell lies for a living. Exactly. I mean, that’s what acting is, really.”