- 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]
- 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.