Johnny Depp: ‘I don’t want to be a product’

34 votes
I Like It I Don't Like It
To Johnny Depp, freedom means simplicity and anonymity.

“I’m sure it will be a possibility someday again. Maybe when I get old. They get tired of you,” the actor tells Esquire magazine in its January issue, available Friday. “ ‘Didn’t you used to be Johnny Depp?’ That will be the clincher.”

The 44-year-old star of “Sweeney Todd,” which opens Christmas Day, talked with the magazine about the lessons he’s learned over his two decades in Hollywood.His friend and mentor Marlon Brando taught Depp to keep his private life private.

“That’s your world and it’s nobody else’s business,” he recalls Brando saying. “It’s not anybody’s entertainment.”A self-described people-watcher, Depp says he’s learned to enter restaurants through the kitchen and hotels through the parking garage.

“It’ll definitely make you a little weird if you’re constantly being stared at,” he says.

While he loves his work, Depp says he’s “not a great fan of all the stuff that goes along with it.”

“I don’t want to be a product,” he says. “Of course you want the movies to do well. But I don’t want to know ... who’s hot now and who’s not and who’s making this much dough and who’s boffing this woman or that one. I want to remain ignorant of all this. I want to be totally outside and far away from all of it.”

hcarroll 2464 hcarroll Published 12/12/07   Message Add to Friends
 

Add Your Comment

Your email address (will not be published, but is required):

Your comment:

No links or abusive language please!

Add Comment

Comments (17)

  • I admire him for wanting to keep his private life private.
    dotspot.star 45 dotspot.star 12/12/07   Message Add to Friends Reply
     
  • depp is the man. he is probably my favorite male movie star in h-wood.
    Abracadavid 426 Abracadavid 12/12/07   Message Add to Friends Reply
     
  • he is so hot too. even as a crazy pirate, he is still one of the hottest guys around!! i think his private life adds to his appeal.
    DusknDawn00 802 DusknDawn00 12/12/07   Message Add to Friends Reply
     
  • oh i totally agree, the fact that we know so little about him makes him so much more appealing!!
    NinjaMikey12 397 NinjaMikey12 12/12/07   Message Add to Friends Reply
     
  • haha...he said, "boffing."
    AngelicCowboy 165 AngelicCowboy 12/12/07   Message Add to Friends Reply
     
  • what does that even mean? i'd boff him, i guess. lol.
    jazzyjasLV 656 jazzyjasLV 12/12/07   Message Add to Friends Reply
     
  • i wish more celebs were as chill as j depp.
    Alysster196 459 Alysster196 12/12/07   Message Add to Friends Reply
     
  • wow, he looks so hot in this pic...i think he's a great actor.
    CopsandRobert 237 CopsandRobert 12/12/07   Message Add to Friends Reply
     
  • dude does have great bone structure...omg.
    ToweringTay 200 ToweringTay 12/12/07   Message Add to Friends Reply
     
  • wow, can you imagine if he and kate moss were still a couple? how weird would that be??
    PinkPixieDust 290 PinkPixieDust 12/12/07   Message Add to Friends Reply
     
  • i admire his desire to stay private but isn't that a little hypocritical considering i LIVE for dotspotter? lol.
    Cable3sixty 117 Cable3sixty 12/12/07   Message Add to Friends Reply
     
  • ha thats a funny point. i guess we should let the celebs decide...people like paris and nicole seem to like the spotlight.
    belindalook 585 belindalook 12/12/07   Message Add to Friends Reply
     
  • who cares if this guy wants to be in the spotlight or not? he is a fantastic actor and that's all that should matter. right?
    TribalFlava 36 TribalFlava 12/12/07   Message Add to Friends Reply
     
  • crazy pirate just made him hotter to me.
    hellokitty 360 hellokitty 12/12/07   Message Add to Friends Reply
     
  • Hello, my name is Fred
    anonymous anonymous 12/12/07 Reply
     
  • He's also in the movie called...
    http://e-channel.blogspot.com/2007/12/johnny-depp-in-sweeney-todd-movie.html


    I see the thriller and i don't think it will put on the top!
    anonymous anonymous 12/12/07 Reply
     
  • HOT! HOT!!!! and did i mention HOT?!?
    anonymous anonymous 2/25/08 Reply
     

Featured News

 
Join The Insider

Got something to say? Express yourself as part of the web's hottest new pop-culture community.
Join Now

Welcome Dotspotters!

Use your Dotspotter username and password, we've made it easy.
Login Now

Already a member?

Login

Find friends on The Insider

User Search

Login using Facebook

People are talking…
Get in on the Action

Chat Now…