Happy Birthday Johnny Depp

Of course you knew that I would be posting for Johnny Depp's birthday, didn't you.

Interesting facts:


Was named one of the 50 Most Beautiful People by People Magazine in 2001.

Appears in Tom Petty's 1991 music video "Into the Great Wide Open."

Johnny's two children with Vanessa Paradis have the same names of the two main characters in "Legend" (1985): Lily (b. 1999) and Jack (b.2002).

Received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on 19 November 1999. Tim Burton and Martin Landau were guest speakers.


Purchased Bela Lugosi's Los Angeles home.


Co-owns a restaurant/club in Paris called Man Ray (named after avant-garde artist Mana Ray with Sean Penn and John MalkovichThe restaurant is located in a renovated theater and serves Tibetan cuisine.

Dropped out of high school at 16 to pursue a career as a musician.

As a child, he was allergic to chocolate.

His parents divorced when he was 15.

Born in Kentucky but moved to Florida at age 7.

He is the youngest of 4 children.

Owns a customised 1960's 650cc Triumph Bonneville motorcycle.

Johnny Depp quotes: "Anything I've done up till 27 May, 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life."

"With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying."

After being asked if he is a romantic: "Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic."


"When kids hit 1 year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit."

On his daughter, Lily-Rose: "I see this amazing, beautiful, pure angel-thing wake up in the morning, and nothing can touch that. She is the only reason to wake up in the morning, the only reason to take a breath. Everything else is checkers."

There's nothing - you know - nothing else like music. Nothing that touches us on that, uh, that deep level. Music can open up so many emotions that we didn't know we had. It's the magical thing about musicals, you know, on the stage or on film or whatever. Love songs. They work so well because music touches us, emotionally, where words alone can't.