When you're happy you don't always have to be laughing, and when you're sad you don't have to be crying; sometimes it's the opposite. You laugh when you're the most upset.

I have a younger brother.

I like all sorts of chocolate. Milk chocolate, dark chocolate, anything.

I always try doing a different character for every film so it's not just changing one.

Also "Catcher in the Rye", which happens to be one of my favorite books, I just found that kind of useful. It helps you get into the American accent.

People build up a picture of Johnny Depp as being some sort of weird pirate character. In reality he's incredibly nice... one of the nicest people I've ever met.

Today the sort of thing for a guy in England growing up is that you have to suppress all your emotions. It's almost like you have to sit back and be cool.

Scary is good. Kids like going to a movie and being really scared rather than fake scared.

We live alone, we die alone. Everything else is just an illusion.

For every different role you play it's nice to have different challenges for each one.

It's very nice having my mum as my agent. You know that she's always doing what's best for you.

We must find within us a happiness with ourselves which no one else can disturb. Otherwise we give them power over us.

I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.

Hobbits are a lot like Scots. It’s all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing.

From the start to the end it was ugly and a painful game to watch.

Don’t ever give up. Don’t see the obstacles, just the way around them. For me, of course it looked improbable, but not impossible. So as long as there was a way, I would not be discouraged.

Some immemorial imbecilities have been added deliberately, on the ground that it is just as interesting to note how foolish men have been as to note how wise they have been.

Knowledge is power. If it is not applied properly to create, let there be no doubts, it will destroy.

Practice is the battle you must win.

We have invented the literature because the reality wasn't imaginative enough and we also wanted to be alone, at least for a while!

Bullies are masters at holding others responsible for their misbehavior. Instead of claiming "the devil made me do it", they argue "You made me do it".