Inside the Actors Studio (TV Series)
Johnny Depp (2002)
James Lipton: Self - Host
Quotes
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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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]
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James Lipton : Being in love in France...
Johnny Depp : Equals a baby...
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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.