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Johnny Depp is a renowned American actor known for his unique acting style and diverse roles. Born on June 9, 1963, he has achieved great success in the film industry since the 1980s. Depp gained widespread popularity for his role as Captain Jack Sparrow in the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' series, for which he has won numerous awards. His career spans from independent films to major Hollywood blockbusters.

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“Pretty much any drug you can name, I've done it.”

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“I experimented with drugs and I experimented with everything that little boys do - vandalism, throwing eggs at cars, breaking and entering schools and destroying a room. But I finally got to a point where I looked around and said, "This is not getting me anywhere. I'm stagnating with these guys." They were getting drunk and high every weekend. I got out.”

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“Out on the street, you never know what you're getting, and suddenly two days later you're beating yourself in the head with a tennis racket, wearing a towel, quoting Poe. You don't want that for your kid. You really don't want that.”

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“I did mostly alcohol. There were drugs, too - pills - and there was a danger that I would go over the edge. I could have. I thank God I didn't.”

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“I was never a cokehead or anything like that. I always despised that drug. I thought it was a waste of time, pointless.”

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“I was poisoning myself with alcohol and medicating myself. I was trying to numb things. I was trying not to feel things, and that's ridiculous. It's one of the dumbest things you can do, because all you're doing is postponing the inevitable. Someday you'll have to look all those things in the eye rather than try to numb the pain.”

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“Thank God I never hooked on anything. I never had a monkey on my back. I just wanted to self-medicate, to numb myself through liquor. It's how I dealt with life, reality, stress, change, sadness, memories. The list goes on. I was really trying to feel nothing.”

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“You never think you're on the verge of disaster while you're looking over the edge yourself. It's your friends and family who are trying to get you to stop destroying yourself and after a while it kind of sank in and I just cleaned up my act.”

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“There are guys, the weekenders, who can go out and get loaded and they're having fun and partying - which is a term I deplore, partying - and it's all recreational and they're having a ball. I never had that. It was never about recreation. Not. Ever. That was never my motivation. Not once!”

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“I don't drink hard liquor anymore, but I sometimes order Lagavulin just for the smell. It's so good. It's unbelievable.”

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“I've weaned myself down to about, on a great day, on a really great day, three cigarettes. For a nicotine junkie the essential cigs are three: the first-of-the-day cigarette smoked after lunch, the after-dinner cigarette and then the one taken whenever you want - the luxury-wild-card smoke. It used to be quite a bit more. It used to be, I'd smoke the table. I'd smoke the patch. I'd smoke the gum. So I feel good about it.”

“I'd get very nervous and uncomfortable in social situations and the only way I could feel at all normal was, well, to drink my guts out.”

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“I'm a dumb-ass, and I poisoned myself for years. Now I understand things better.”

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Author:Johnny Depp

“I never wanted to be the guy people looked at. I felt I could only be myself when I was alone, that I turned into some kind of novelty. The only way I could get through that time was to drink. I poisoned myself with alcohol for years but I've never been into drugs in the way it was sometimes made out.”

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“I'm not a great pothead or anything like that... but weed is much, much less dangerous than alcohol.”

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Author:Johnny Depp

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Born: June 9, 1963
Known for: Actor
Quotes: 309

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