21 Famous & Inspirational Quotes By "Johnny Depp" That Will Make Your Day & Achieve Big in Life

 Johnny Depp

Johnny Depp (born June 9, 1963, in Owensboro, Kentucky, United States) was an American actor and musician who was recognized for his varied and unusual film selections. As Captain Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean series, he garnered possibly his biggest success.

Early Life and Career

Depp dropped out of high school at the age of 16 to pursue a career in music. His band, the Kids, moved to Los Angeles from Florida, where he spent most of his childhood. Depp married Lori Anne Allison, a makeup artist, in 1983 while he was struggling as a musician. Allison organized for Depp to audition with director Wes Craven through her friend, actor Nicolas Cage, and Depp made his film debut as a teenager eaten by his own bed in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). The following year, he divorced Allison.

21 Jump Street, Tim Burton Films, and Hunter S. Thompson

The release of 21 Jump Street, a television police series starring Depp as Officer Tom Hanson, a young cop who frequently went undercover in high schools and universities to apprehend problematic adolescents, gave Depp his professional break in 1987. Depp despised his promotion as a youthful heartthrob, and the show was a hit. In 1990, he left the show to star in John Waters's Cry-Baby and Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands, two films by unconventional filmmakers that displayed Depp's range. Scissorhands marked the beginning of a long collaboration between Depp and Burton, which included roles in Ed Wood (1994), Sleepy Hollow (1999), and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), in which Depp played the reclusive candy baron Willy Wonka. Depp also provided the voice of the hapless groom in Tim Burton's macabre animated film Corpse Bride (2005).

Pirates of the Caribbean and Academy Award Nominations

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl starred Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow in 2003. (2003). Depp received his first Academy Award nomination for his portrayal, which was based on the Rolling Stones' Keith Richards. In the following year, he was nominated for his performance in Finding Neverland as Peter Pan creator James M. Barrie (2004). Dead Man's Chest (2006), At World's End (2007), On Stranger Tides (2011), and Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017), all of which were among the highest-grossing films of all time, saw Depp reprise his role as Jack Sparrow.

 1. “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.”

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

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

4. “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.”

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

6. “We're all damaged in our own way. Nobody's perfect. I think we're all somewhat screwy. Every single one of us.”

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

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

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

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

11. “Tomorrow it’ll all be over, then I’ll have to go back to selling pens again.”

12. “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.”

13. “You gotta be careful: don't say a word to nobody about nothing anytime ever.”

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

15. “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.”

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

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

18. “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. ”

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

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

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