55 Inspirational Johnny Depp Quotes on Love and Life

“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.”

“Am I a romantic? I’ve seen ‘Wuthering Heights’ ten times. I’m a romantic.”

“Love is one of the hardest words to say and one of the easiest to hear.”

“I do have an affinity for damaged people, in life, in roles. I don’t know why. We’re all damaged in our own way. Nobody’s perfect. I think we are all somewhat screwy, every single one of us.”

“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.”

“The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.”

“If you love two people at the same time, choose the second one. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn’t have fallen for the second.”

“Love is not blind. It simply enables one to see things others fail to see.”

“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.”

“A woman who would steal your love when your love is all you really have isn’t much of a woman.”

“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.”

“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.”

“There’s a drive in me that won’t allow me to do certain things that are easy.”

“One day the people that didn’t believe in you will tell everyone how they met you.”

“They say the world used to be bigger. The world’s still the same – there’s just less in it.”

“We’re all damaged in our own way. Nobody’s perfect. I think we are all somewhat screwy, every single one of us.”

“I think everybody’s nuts.”

“It’s only a bad day, not a bad life.”

“People say I make strange choices, but they’re not strange for me. My sickness is that I’m fascinated by human behavior, by what’s underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Everything here is edible; even I’m edible. But that, dear children, is cannibalism, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies.”

“Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world.”

“People cry not because they’re weak, it’s because they’ve been strong for too long.”

“There is nothing on earth that could ever make me want to relive certain years of my life when I was young.”

“My daughter was asked by a little old lady in a London hotel restaurant what her daddy did. She answered, “He’s a pirate” – I was very proud of that answer.”

“Just keep moving forward and don’t give a shit about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you.”

“I think everybody’s weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.”

“There’s no truth anymore.”

“Someone once said interviews are like thumbprints on your windpipe. That’s kinda how I feel.”

“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.”

“There comes a time when one must take responsibility for one’s mistakes.” ―Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

“Life’s pretty good, and why wouldn’t it be? I’m a pirate, after all.”

“You lied to me by telling me the truth?” ―Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

“I try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.”

“Villainy wears many masks, none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.” ―Sleepy Hollow

“There is a place. Like no place on Earth. A land full of wonder, mystery, and danger! Some say to survive it: You need to be as mad as a hatter. Which, luckily, I am.” ―Alice in Wonderland

“Me, I’m dishonest. And a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. I mean honestly, it’s the honest ones you have to watch out for.” ―Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl

“I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.”

“Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can’t.”

“There are times when you see how ridiculous is this life, how ludicrous it is, you know, leaving your house every morning and being followed by paparazzi.”

“That Lenora ain’t nothing to me! I swear on my daddy’s grave! I’m burning inside to touch you, baby!” ―Cry-Baby

“Ugliness is better than beauty. It lasts longer and in the end, gravity will get us all.”

“There’s definitely healing properties to being in proximity to the ocean and that breeze. There’s something about that Caribbean climate and humidity.”

“I’m gonna strip this mystery and expose it’s private parts.” ―Rango

“Everything in this room is eatable. Even I’m eatable. But that is called cannibalism, my dear children, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies. Enjoy.” ―Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

“Did no one come to save me just because they missed me?” ―Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End

“At my very core, I’m pretty shy. I just happen to have a weird job.”

“Not all treasure is silver and gold mate.”

“Yes, I’m rather fond of the music of the day. “I am a picker, I am a grinner / I am a lover and I am a sinner / I play my music in the sun”. If only Shakespeare had been as eloquent.” ―Dark Shadows

“May the wind always be on your back and the sun upon your face and may the winds of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars.” ―Blow

“When kids hit 1 year old, it’s like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.”

“No man can walk out on his own story.” ―Rango

“My body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story.”

“Every relationship has problems but when those problems arise you have to realize that they don’t mean your relationship is broken, it’s just a little bent. Bent things can be fixed and like so your relationship can too. The first step however is realizing that.”

“One of the most beautiful things in the world is seeing a mommy with her kids. There’s nothing more beautiful, nothing more sublime.”

“Everything is just very, very blurry. I’ve never had proper vision.”

“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.”

“I found a girl, fell in love, she had a baby, and i fell in love again.”

“Trying to make someone fall in love with you is about as pointless as trying to control who you fall in love with.”

“If they let me choose between you and the dog, I’ll choose the dog.”

“She’s kind of a walking poem, she’s this perfect beauty…but at the same time very deep, very smart.”

“I think when you are young, you are hoping that this person will be the right one. The one you are going to be in love with forever, but sometimes you want that so much, you create something that isn’t really there.”

“I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labelled.”

“If there’s any message, it is ultimately that it’s okay 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, and is a different color.”

“You got to be careful: don’t say a word to nobody about nothing anytime ever.”

“I don’t pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do.”

“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.”

“I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you’re on it.”

“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.”

“I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.”

“With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it’s just not acting. It’s lying.”

“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.”

“I’m shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I’ve done everything I can to avoid it.”

“I think when you are young, you are hoping that this person will be the right one. The one you are going to be in love with forever, but sometimes you want that so much, you create something that isn’t really there. ”

“I always felt like I was meant to have been born in another era, another time.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The problem is not the problem; the problem is your attitude about the problem.”