Nobody's perfect. I think that's just the fact of life," she told Entertainment Tonight in April. But I think a big part of keeping a good head on your shoulders is just having a lot of self-awareness and never feeling like you take yourself too seriously to put your actions back into question. Depp has faced ongoing controversy over the nuclear fallout to his short-burst marriage with Amber Heard, who accused the Pirates of the Caribbean star of assault.
Depp had sought to challenge last year's decision to dismiss his lawsuit against the Sun newspaper for branding him a "wife beater" — which a UK judge said was "substantially true". But in the ruling released, two Court of Appeal judges rejected his application for an appeal — insisting that he got a "full and fair" hearing. As far as her personal life goes, Lily-Rose has dated two fellow Hollywood stars. Austin was previously in a longtime relationship with Vanessa Hudgens.
Jack Depp, the younger child of Johnny and Vanessa, was born on April 9, Jack, whose real name is John Christopher Depp III , has kept a much lower profile than his sister over the years, and is only seen on rare occasions.
But when he is seen, Jack always strikes a remarkable resemblance to his famous father. I suppose nowadays it's all a question of surgery, isn't it? Of course the notion is beautiful, the idea of staying a boy and a child forever, and I think you can.
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. All the little films I've done that were perceived by Hollywood as these obscure, weird things, I always thought could appeal to a larger audience. I mean, box office is such a mystery to me that I can't. I have enough trouble doing my own gig. Not only for himself and the people he's working with, but for the audience. If you just go out and deliver the same dish every time. I'd get bored. We had been shooting [ Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ] for about a month, and I was beginning to get nervous because there weren't any phone calls.
I called my agent and asked, "Has no one called from the studio to complain or say, 'Hey, what's he doing? Something's wrong! And I just had to know. So I said, "Okay, who was the first one, when you started seeing the dailies, that got a little worried? And [Warner Bros. Horn finally said, "Yeah, that was me". I felt better instantly. The one thing I didn't understand was that apparently he was quoted as saying, "Well, they just did this for money".
Well, hey, man, where have you been? When didn't they ever do anything for money? Nobody's ever made a film in the history of cinema where they weren't expecting some return on their dough. She is the only reason to wake up in the morning, the only reason to take a breath. Everything else is checkers.
If he wants me to have sex with an aardvark in one of his next movies, then I will do that. Well, I guess I wouldn't say traumatizing, but I would say weird: at the premiere of the film the reception of it was beyond any expectation that I had.
I had no idea I'd be looking at [ Bernardo Bertolucci ] or [ Michelangelo Antonioni ] sitting there watching my film. And then to receive the applause that my film got, it was so incredible. And then the next day the majority of the American press just turn it into this horrible thing. Once again, everybody is entitled to their opinion, man. Maybe it's a bad film? Maybe it's a good film? To me it's just a film. It's something I needed to make. I started out as a guitarist in the early '80s.
I hooked up with a guy who idolized James Dean and he gave me a copy of the Dean biography, "The Mutant King", which I thought was really interesting. I wasn't really into acting at the time - but James Dean was the catalyst. I don't have a mental picture of the houses we lived in because there were so many. The horrible thing was that it wasn't understood.
For some unknown reason the baby would stop breathing. So I would sneak into where the baby was sleeping and put my hand in her crib, hold her little finger, and I'd sleep on the floor like that.
It was stupid, I'm sure. But I thought the warmth of my hand might help, that maybe if she felt my pulse it would remind her to breathe. Marlon Brando is maybe the greatest actor of the last two centuries. But his mind is much more important than the acting thing. The way that he looks at things, doesn't judge things, the way that he assesses things.
He's as important as, uh Jesus, not many people Stephen Hawking! There's nothing - you know - nothing else like music. Nothing that touches us on that, uh, that deep level.
Music can open up so many emotions that we didn't know we had. It's the magical thing about musicals, you know, on the stage or on film or whatever. Love songs. They work so well because music touches us, emotionally, where words alone can't.
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. What was it called? A very interesting book. I wasn't exactly going for that with the character. And Keith is not flamboyant in his actions. Keith is pretty stealth. But with Jack, it was more that I liked the idea of being ambiguous, of taking this character and making everything a little bit.
Because women were thought to be bad luck on ships. And these pirates would go out for years at a time. So, you know, there is a possibility that one thing might lead to another. Go on. Study Shakespeare". So it's one of the things that keep ricocheting around in my head. He told me that by the time he had got to the point where he felt he could do "Hamlet", it was too late.
So he said, "Do it now, do it while you can". And I would like to do it - although it's one of the more frightening ideas I've had. 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.
Having kids was a huge change for me. Becoming a father. But I think more than changing, I feel like I've been revealed to myself, I kind of found out who I was. When you meet your child for the first time and you're looking at this angel, you start realizing what an idiot you've been for so many years and how much time you've wasted. As far as being feet-on-the-ground, once again my kids and ['girlfriend Vanessa Paradis ] have given me a proper foundation.
A sense of home that I never had in my life, a real sense of a place to be. I loved playing Edward Scissorhands because there's nothing cynical, jaded or impure about him.
It's almost a letdown to look in the mirror and realize I'm not Edward. What I said was, the United States of America is a young country compared to Europe, compared to, you know, other countries. We're young. We're and something years old. He is a brother, a friend, my godson's father. He is a unique and brave soul, someone that I would go to the ends of the earth for, and I know, full and well, he would do the same for me.
There's no preparing, you just do it. There was no screenplay, no director, nothing. For some unknown reason, I just said I was in. As a person, I was pretty much a lost cause at that time in my life. She turned all that around for me with her incredible tenderness and understanding. I love our house in the country. I can walk to the nearby village and have a coffee and no one pays any notice. I'm just another dad with my daughter on my knee. The time I've spent in France with [girlfriend Vanessa Paradis ] has solidified my belief that I can keep a major distance from Hollywood and still keep in the game.
Acting is my living, but I don't want to live it. Living in France is the first time I can honestly say I feel at home. There's a drive in me that won't allow me to do certain things that are easy. I can weigh all the options, but there's always one thing that goes: "Johnny, this is the one. All the amazing people that I've worked with - Marlon Brando , Al Pacino , Dustin Hoffman - have told me consistently: don't compromise.
Do your work, and if what you're giving is not what they want, you have to be prepared to walk away. I had never experienced that before. And it's been fun to visit Hollywood and talk to studios as a bankable actor for a change. I've been around long enough to know that one week, you're on the exclusive list of guys who can open a movie, and then the next week, you're off the list.
It's been a fun ride, and I'm enjoying it for all it's worth. It was the same feeling I had about Edward Scissorhands. I'd count her change at the end of the night. She cursed like a sailor, played cards and smoked cigarettes. I was a weird kid. I wanted to be Bruce Lee. I wanted to be on a SWAT team. My cousins had a gospel group and they came down and played gospel songs, and that was the first time I ever saw an electric guitar.
I was about twelve years old. Then I locked myself in a room for a year and taught myself how to play, learned off records, and then I started playing in little garage bands. The first group I was ever in was called Flame. Then I was in The Kids. They were the ones who moved to Hollywood. It had two identical grocery stores opposite each other and nothing much ever happened there.
At first we'd wear T-shirts that said "Flame" on them. At 13 I was wearing plain T-shirts. Then I used to steal my mom's clothing. She had all these crushed velvet shirts with French-cut sleeves. And, like, seersucker bell bottoms. I dreamed of having platforms, but couldn't find any. I'd been in high school three years, and I may have just walked in yesterday. I had, like, eight credits. I was in my third year of high school and I didn't want to be there.
I was bored out of my mind and I hated it. I hung around with bad crowds. We used to break and enter places. We'd break into the school and destroy a room or something.
I used to steal things from stores. He'd failed me. I remember one time this teacher yelled at me so heavily in front of the entire class. He didn't have any time for me then, and now, all of a sudden, he wants my autograph? They all thought I was going to end up a drug addict, in jail. I started smoking at 12, lost my virginity at 13 and did every kind of drug there was by Pretty much any drug you can name, I've done it. I wouldn't say I was bad or malicious, I was just curious.
I certainly had my little experiences with drugs. Eventually, you see where that's headed and you get out. I played rock'n'roll clubs in Florida. I was underage, but they would let me come in the back door to play, and then I'd have to leave after the first set.
My father left and my mother was deeply hurt and sick physically and emotionally. That's a very traumatic thing for a family to go through, so we all pulled together and did the best we could.
These are the most important people in my life. You know, I would die for these people. 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 years - but I would eat them.
I remember carving my initials on my arm and I've scarred myself from time to time since then. In a way your body is a journal and the scars are sort of entries in it. I can remember my parents fighting and us kids wondering who was going to go with whom if they got divorced. I had the right intentions, but the wrong timing - and the wrong person. But I don't regret it; I had fun and I learned a lot. You know, I was married, when I was It was a strong bond with someone, but I can't necessarily say I was in love.
That's something that comes around once, man, maybe twice if you're lucky. And I don't know that I experienced that, let's say, before I turned The kid falls asleep and it's all over, he's sucked right into the bed and spit out as blood. His bloody body rises straight out and then topples over, too. I heard somebody talk about having a dummy shot out of the bed, but I said, "Hey, I want to do this!
It'll be fun! Lemme do it! He had written the part of a big, blond, beach jock, football player guy. And I was sort of emaciated, with old hairspray and spiky hair, earrings, a little catacomb dweller.
Then five hours later that agent called me and said, "You're an actor". There were so many bands it was impossible to make any money. So we all got side jobs. We used to sell ads over the telephone. We had to rip people off. We'd tell them they'd been chosen by so-and-so in their area to receive a grandfather clock. It was horrible. I like to think that I'm very considerate of other people's feelings, and I was trained as a small child to always try my best at everything.
I think I'm a mixture of romantic and realist. I'm a realist about some stuff, but I also wholeheartedly believe that in a society where people get divorced every five minutes you can still stay married for 50 or 75 years.
It's been done and it's beautiful. When I see a couple celebrating their 75th wedding anniversary, I just think that it's totally incredible. About his early relationship I don't regret any of them. I had a good time. Most of what's been written about me has been completely false. People have created an image that has absolutely nothing to do with me, and they have the power to sell it, to shove it down the throats of people.
I'm an old-fashioned guy who wants marriage and kids. I read for him and he said, "OK, I need you for ten weeks in the jungle. I made some shitty movies when I was first starting out, but I'm not embarrassed by them, especially as I didn't think I was going to be an actor - I was just trying to make some money.
I was still a musician. When I first started out I was just given the opportunity, and there was no other way to make that kind of money.
Apart from crime. I couldn't believe how much they were paying me. And as far as I was concerned, when Stephen Sondheim writes the note and it has to be held for this many beats, you do it. I don't care if you're from Miramar or Kentucky or you're an ass and you don't sing. It doesn't matter. Don't be a pussy, you fucking hold that note.
You can't cheat. You can't whisper. You can't do the William Shatner thing. You just gotta belt it out. So I really beat myself up, making sure I could hold those notes. In "Johanna," some are, like, twelve beats. That was a bugger.
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