Inside the Actors Studio (TV Series)

Johnny Depp (2002)

Johnny Depp: Self - Guest

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Quotes 

• James Lipton : What is your favorite word?

  Johnny Depp : Why.

  James Lipton : Didn't that sound appropriate to you? It did to me. What is your least favorite word?

  Johnny Depp : No.

  James Lipton : What turns you on?

  Johnny Depp : Breathing.

  James Lipton : What turns you off?

  Johnny Depp : Not breathing.

  James Lipton : What is your sound or noise do you love?

  Johnny Depp : My daughter's voice.

  James Lipton : What is your sound or noise do you hate?

  Johnny Depp : Vacuum cleaner.

  James Lipton : What is your favorite curse word?

  Johnny Depp : Boy. This is a real opportunity here. I don't want to mess this up. I think the most expressive would be shit. Yeah. Shit works a lot.

  James Lipton : And it's just as good, maybe even better in French.

  Johnny Depp : Yeah, yeah. And it's used a lot. It's said more in French then anywhere else.

  James Lipton : Yes, it is. What profession, other than yours, would you like to attempt?

  Johnny Depp : Writing, I think. Writing.

  James Lipton : What profession would you absolutely not like to try?

  Johnny Depp : President of the United States.

  James Lipton : Johnny, if Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?

  Johnny Depp : Wow.

• James Lipton : Tell me first, please, about the name 'Depp.' Do you know its origin?

  Johnny Depp : No, I don't really know the origin, but I know what it means in German.

  James Lipton : What does it mean?

  Johnny Depp : [pause, grins]  'Idiot.'

• James Lipton : It's no secret to this audience that tonight we have the biggest crowd we've ever had here in nearly eight years... It was bedlam for a little while, people trying to get in.

  Johnny Depp : [smiles, embarrassed]  I think there was some mistake.

  James Lipton : Not at all.

  Johnny Depp : Maybe a misspelling.

• Johnny Depp : Ed Wood is actually made up of three ingrediants.

  James Lipton : And they are?

  Johnny Depp : The blind optimism of Ronald Reagan, the enthusiasm of the Tin Man, and Casey Kasem.

  [audience laughs] 

• James Lipton : Being in love in France...

  Johnny Depp : Equals a baby...

• Johnny Depp : [on 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas']  I was playing Hunter, so I had to, you know, figure out a way to steal his soul.

  [chuckles] 

  Johnny Depp : I lived in his basement, which we called 'the dungeon,' for a couple months.

  James Lipton : No wonder you came out Hunter Thompson! And shaved your head?

  Johnny Depp : Hunter shaved my head, in fact.

  James Lipton : Did he really?

  Johnny Depp : Yeah.

  James Lipton : The two of you looking in the mirror until it was right...

  Johnny Depp : I didn't look in the mirror at all! I was in mortal fear. Hunter had a mining light on his head

  [audience laughs] 

  Johnny Depp : and we were in his kitchen, you know, and, uh, he shaved my head.