Johnny Depp

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How do you think Hollywood perceives you?
I don't think they like me very much.

But you work all the time. How could they not like you?
I don't know. I just get that feeling. Maybe I'm paranoid.

You once said you based your whole career on failure. What did you mean by that?
It's not like I planned it that way. I guess I'm still shocked that I'm able to get jobs at major studios. You know, there's a certain list in Hollywood - a Top 10 or a Top Five list - and I don't know anyone who has fluctuated more than I have in terms of being on the list. "Oh! He's gone."..."Oh, my God! He's back on the list!" or "He's in a holding pattern - should we put him back on the list? Let's see how the movie does."

You live pretty much full-time in France. Doesn't that make the Hollywood list that much harder to make?
Yes.

Do you care?
No.

Sleepy Hollow interview, E! On-line November 1999

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Johnny Depp is a constant reminder of the joys and perils of being a critic. When Depp began trying to build a career in movies, fresh from 21 Jump Street, most critics treated him as a joke because he was a teen idol and a TV actor. "Maybe I'm a joke now," he told Rolling Stone, "but at least I'm my own joke."

The body of work Depp has been building, each part chosen with an eye toward stretching himself, reminds us that one of the chief pleasures the movies offer is the surprise discovering a performer's possibilities -- and the impossibility of predicting what they'll be.

Charles Taylor, Salon article, May 1998

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I loved Chocolat and Edward Scissor Hands..oh and also Sleepy Hollow.

He is good looking in a rough and scruffy way I guess.

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Depp admits that he is bemused by what is deemed normal. "Who," he queries, "decides what is normal? And why? Some of the things that are considered to be normal in our society seem to be pretty bizarre to me." For instance? "Golf. Bowling. Politicians."





The Scotsman interview, January 2002

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i do hope that the ozzy biopic push through and have the script real good for depp to play the role...

[daedae]

shadowveil i think ur d biggest fan of Johnny. kala ko pa naman ate ko n. hehe..grbe rin kz un ate ko, nababaliw n ata s kanya...

hope i can make fwendz with u.......

[cinephile]

****..the older he gets...the more hot he gets!!1 awwwww!

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shadowveil i think ur d biggest fan of Johnny. kala ko pa naman ate ko n. hehe..grbe rin kz un ate ko, nababaliw n ata s kanya...hope i can make fwendz with u.......

daedae: biggest fan? i am definitely sure that i am not...it just happened na it seems i can relate myself to depp, the way he sees things, the eccentricity, the beautiful madness and all that stuff you know...ate mo? what's her name? ok lang mabaliw at times, sabihin mo sa ate mo, stay sick hehe...friends? yeah, sure, why not?...

****..the older he gets...the more hot he gets!!1 awwwww!

cinephile: parang alak...

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'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 they take more risks. Even things like Shrek - it's really funny and well made and intelligent.'

It's what he feels like doing at the moment, says Depp, making a film that his children are not going to have to wait 20 years to watch. I worry about him appearing in Free Willy III or something, but no, he's going for the big one: a Disney, Bruckheimer-produced number Pirates of the Caribbean - my God, it's a film based on a theme park ride. Depp, of course, will play a pirate.

'That's my guy,' says Gilliam later. 'He'll make a brilliant pirate. Whatever it takes. Whatever it takes to make him a big superstar so we can raise a lot of money on him for the next Quixote..'

Telegraph Magazine article on Lost in La Mancha, August 2002

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Did you have as much fun as it looked like you were having?

More. It was criminal. ... It was a ball. I mean, it was just a ball. Hard work, certainly, really hard work. Physically, very demanding, taxing. Worked a lot of hours. There were sort of burnout days and weeks, but every day was a gas being the guy. I mean, I loved every second being Jack Sparrow. I just loved it.

Pirates of the Caribbean interview, SciFi.com, June 2003

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The director found a more-than-willing collaborator in the adventurous Johnny Depp. “When I first met him in London, we both sort of snickered: 'This is a great coup—we get to do a pirate movie!' It’s not an opportunity that comes along that often. And he’s the consummate pirate, in my mind, the perfect choice. What’s nice about the script is that Orlando and Keira are holding the main storyline, the romantic element and the adventure element, and Johnny’s character gets to be the rogue, what Lee Marvin is in Cat Ballou. He gets to drift through the film affecting everybody, but having his own agenda.
“We agreed immediately that the fun of this character is his outrageousness. We love him because he is disgusting—there are probably parts of his body that are decaying with fungus and rot. Johnny is always playing against his good looks. He said he wanted to model his character on Keith Richards.”

Gore Verbinski, Film Journal article on Pirates of the Caribbean, May 2003

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depp is shooting a stephen king novel, secret window, secret garden...

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I had the honor of meeting and getting to know Allen Ginsberg for a short time. The initial meeting was at a soundstage in New York City, where we were both doing a bit in the film The United States of Poetry. I was reading a piece from Kerouac's Mexico City Blues, the "2nd Chorus," and as I was rehearsing it for camera, I could see a familiar face out of the corner of my eye: "**** me," I thought, "that's Ginsberg!" We were introduced, and he then immediately launched into a blistering rendition of said chorus, so as to show me the proper way for it to be done. "As Jack would have done it!" he emphasized. I was looking straight down the barrel at one of the most gifted and important poets of the twentieth century, and with all the truth and guts I could muster up, I said in response, "Yeah, but I'm not reading it as him, I'm reading it as me. It's my interpretation of his piece."

Silence -- a LONNNGG silence. Ticktock ticktock ticktock

I was smiling nervously, my eyes sort of wavering between his face and the floor. I sucked down about half of my 5,000th cigarette of the day in one monster drag and filled the air around us with my poison. It was at that point that I remembered his "Don't Smoke!" poem ... oops ... too ****ing late now, boy, you done stepped in ****! I looked at Ginsberg, he looked at me, and the director looked at us both as the crew looked at him, and it was quite a little moment, for a moment there. Allen's eyes squinted ever so slightly and then began to twinkle like bright lights. He smiled that mystic smile, and I felt as though God himself had forgiven me a dreadful sin.

Johnny Depp, The Rolling Stone Book of the Beats: The Beat Generation and American Culture 1999

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BLOW would be on cinemax tonight, oct 16, at 1030pm...

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John Christopher Depp II - or Johnny Depp, as he's better known to his legion of fans and admirers - is so cool, well, frankly it's almost physically painful for me to talk about him. But, you know the coolest thing about Johnny Depp? The one cool thing - over and above the many great movies he's made, and the way he looks on camera? The coolest thing of all is the fact that he really couldn't care less about being cool. Now, that's cool.

[Miding]

Basta... I like him kasi he's really a character actor in the truest sense of the word!

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He had IT in spades, more than anyone I've ever met.





Wes Craven, on casting an unknown named Johnny Depp in A Nightmare on Elm Street

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Charlie Rose: Why 'Lily-Rose'?

Johnny Depp: In fact it was the only name that we'd come up with for a girl, 'Lily-Rose'. We both loved the name 'Lily', and I think Vanessa's mom suggested the 'Rose' part. My mom's name is Betty-Sue and we wanted something that sounded kinda like 'Betty-Sue', that sort of southern thing. So 'Lily-Rose'. And 'Melody', which is her middle name, was after a Serge Gainsbourg song called 'Melody Nelson'.

Charlie Rose: So her name is Lily-Rose Melody...

Johnny Depp: Depp. She's something!

Charlie Rose: Man, you really look happy!

Johnny Depp: I'm floating... I've never, ever in my life - I haven't lived before that day. I was not alive. I existed. I imagine that I drew breath and exhaled and all that stuff, but I don't have any particularly fond memories of it. I mean, I don't think I took a real breath until my daughter was born.

Charlie Rose Show, November 1999

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"I would say he's one of those people who doesn't fit in this era. His standards and integrity are different. He's sort of a backlash to technology." But he differs from those he plays in the movies "because he doesn't think of himself as a victim. He would be the champion of victims, but he's in the position to do something about it, and he does."

Chuck E Weiss talking about Johnny Depp, Details interview 1993

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