Depp: "I don't know if I can relax. Relax, I can't do. My brain, on idle, is a bad thing. I just get weird. I mean, not weird. I get, I get antsy."

Depp: "America is dumb. It's like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you - aggressive. My daughter is four; my boy is one. I'd 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."

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

Depp: "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."

Depp: "Escapism is survival to me."

Depp: "I don't trust anyone who hasn't been self-destructive in some way, and who hasn't gone through some sort of bout of self-loathing. You've got to bang yourself around a bit to know yourself."

Depp: "Simplicity - that's what I want. It's been a rare commodity for me for a number of years, but I enjoy being able to hang out with my girl, read the newspaper, and sit back and start to read a book by someone I admire, like Lawrence Krauss or Christopher Hitchens. And that's it - simplicity, where the game of Hollywood doesn't exist."

Depp: "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."

Depp: "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."

Depp: "I detest jokes - when somebody tells me one, I feel my IQ dropping; the brain cells start to disappear. But something is funny when the person delivering the line doesn't know it's funny or doesn't treat it as a joke. Maybe it comes from a place of truth, or it's a sort of rage against society."

Depp: "There's a drive in me that won't allow me to do certain things that are easy."

Depp: "There's definitely healing properties to being in proximity to the ocean and that breeze. There's something about that Caribbean climate and humidity."

Depp: "I always wanted to be a character actor rather than the poster boy that they tried to make me 100 years ago. An actor has a degree of responsibility to change for the audience, to give them something new each time, to surprise and not bore them."

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

Depp: "I started out printing silk screen t-shirts. I sold ink pens. I worked construction. I worked at a gas station. I pumped gas. I was a mechanic for a little bit. I went into sewers, down into sewer lines. I had a lot of somewhat unpleasant gigs for a time there."

Depp: "Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all."

Depp: "There's no truth anymore."

Depp: "Any character that you come up with or create is a piece of you. You're putting yourself into that character, but there's the guise of the character. So there's a certain amount of safety in the character, where you feel more safe being the character than you do being just you."

Depp: "Sometimes I feel like I'm possessed with a multitude of demons."

Depp: "I think everybody's nuts."

Depp: "I have a place that I get to go to in the Bahamas. It's the only place that guarantees total anonymity and freedom."

Depp: "You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal."

Depp: "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."

Depp: "My favorite color is black."

Depp: "Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for."

Depp: "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."

Depp: "My body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story."

Depp: "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. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be."

Depp: "I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do."

Depp: "You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading."

Depp: "I always wanted to be a character actor rather than the poster boy that they tried to make me 100 years ago. An actor has a degree of responsibility to change for the audience, to give them something new each time, to surprise and not bore them."

Depp: "I made odd noises as a child. Just did weird things, like turn off light switches twice. I think my parents thought I had Tourette's syndrome."

Depp: "The quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter in LA. I would never raise any child there."

Depp: "Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life."

Depp: "I went through various stages in my childhood, as we all do, various stages of obsessions with people and things. And I did. I wanted to be the first white Harlem Globetrotter."

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

Depp: "Here's the thing - if Donald Trump is elected president of the United States, in a kind of historical way, it's exciting because we will see the actual last president of the United States. It just won't work after that."

Depp: "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."

Depp: "Tomorrow it'll all be over, then I'll have to go back to selling pens again."

Depp: "I'm 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."

Depp: "I have this fear of clowns, so I think that if I surround myself with them, it will ward off all evil."

Depp: "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."

Depp: "I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you're on it."

Depp: "One of the greatest pieces of advice I've ever gotten in my life was from my mom. When I was a little kid there was a kid who was bugging me at school and she said 'Okay, I'm gonna tell you what to do. If the kid's bugging you and puts his hands on you; you pick up the nearest rock.'"

Depp: "I know exactly what I want. Everything. Calm, peace, tranquility, freedom, fun, happiness. If I could make all that one word, I would - a many-syllabled word."

Depp: "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."

Depp: "Puberty was very vague. I literally locked myself in a room and played guitar."

Depp: "For me, it's always more difficult and slightly exposing to play something that's close to yourself. I always like to try to hide, just because I can't stand the way I look."

Depp: "The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants."

Depp: "Success doesn't change you... It reveals you."