Quotes by Johnny Depp

“Sticks an stones, love. Ive saved your life an youve saved mine. Were square.”

“Im 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.”

“I am an American. I love my country and have great hopes for it. It is for this reason that I speak candidly and sometimes critically about it. I have benefited greatly from the freedom that exists in my country and for this I am eternally grateful.”

“I hope some day to make you all a cup of coffee. Alright, peace.”

“[after pulling his car up onto the sidewalk]Is this not a reasonable place to park?”

“So in the end, what can anyone... scholar, professor, student or biographer... really say about these angels and devils, who once walked among us, though maybe just a bit higher off the ground?”

“I really approached the film as if it was a white big piece of paper and I was just going to draw a picture on it. And whether that picture was good or bad, whatever people thought of it, what they could never take away was that it was my picture.”

“The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didnt mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.”

“It was really just whatever - good times, bad times, it didnt matter. There was no ceremony. It wasnt like Okay, this just happened, I have to go hack a piece of my flesh off.”

“I have a funny relationship with my body...Ah, it sounds so stupid, but for me there shouldnt be any half way.”

“You can turn your back on a person, but, never turn your back on a drug. Especially when its waving a razor-sharp hunting knife in your eye.”

“I was right in the middle of a fucking reptile zoo, and somebody was giving booze to these goddamn things”

“Raoul Duke: I wouldnt dare go to sleep with you wandering around with a head full of acid, wanting to slice me up with that goddamn knife. Dr. Gonzo: Who said anything about slicing you up, man. I just wanted to cut a little Z in your forehead.”

“[singing]What? No. We cant stop here. This is bat country.”

“Thats what a ship is, you know. Its not a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. Thats what a ship needs. But what a ship is. What the Black Pearl really is . . . is freedom.”

“Id just thank the people out there who have been with my up-and-down, weird-road, strange career and supported me and stuck with me all these years. I mean, theyre my boss. Thats what keeps me working.”

“Its fun to imagine what you could do with that kind of money. I could buy that island Ive wanted to buy all my life, and live there with my family. Or I could buy some great piece of art thats just going to feed my eyes every day. Its fun to toy with the notion of that, and it is very tempting because money, unfortunately is freedom in todays world.”

“America is dumb, its like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you, aggressive. My daughter is four, my boy is one. Id like them to see America as a toy, a broken toy. Investigate it a little, check it out, get this feeling and then get out.”

“There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. Its really the first time Ive thought about the future and what it could be.”

“I trained as a theater actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by.”