Johnny Depp

“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. But if I do 'Hamlet,' it will probably be in a small theater on a small stage, and it will have to be very, very soon because I'm getting a little long in the tooth for it.”

“Lily's really together - she's a sharp kid and one of the smartest human beings I have ever met. Whatever she is doing, if she needs any advice, I'm there for her. Kids are going to make their own decisions, but I guess that the only thing you can do as a parent is to offer support. And I do.”

“When you have children, there is no room for lies, no room for anything but the truth. Anything other than that is a bad example, I believe.”

“I'll take photographs with kids. People who want to take photographs with me. People who like the movies. People who supported me. I'll do that all day, all night, that's fine. But the bombardment of the paparazzi is just... I truly don't understand. It just feels like this kind of gluttonous, horrific sport. It's like sport.”

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

“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. Everything I've done has felt very natural, and it's happened because it's happened.”

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

“Captain Jack Sparrow is like a cross between Keith Richards and Pepe Le Pew.”

“When I played Tonto in 'The Lone Ranger' and was playing the older Tonto, I would just leave the makeup on and go to sleep because it was a four or five hour job; it was, from the waist up, all over me.”

“When I was 12, I wanted to learn how to play the guitar, and I found a chord book in a shop, and I stuffed it down my trousers. And that's how I learned to play the guitar.”

“For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I'm human and I'm normal - well, semi-normal.”

“I think everybody's nuts.”

“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.”

“I never wanted to be the guy people looked at. I don't think of myself as being a celebrity; it's too mortifying.”

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

“When you're doing a movie, your body doesn't allow you to get sick until you finish.”

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

“I'm always for the Indian in the cowboy movie. Always.”

“How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in.”

“Things go wrong for me all the time with technology. I'm not familiar enough with it, and I'm too old-school a brain to be able to figure it out. I'm dumb. Anything that I have to attack with my thumbs, for any period of time, makes me feel stupid. So, I try to avoid it, as much as possible, to protect my thumbs.”