Y
The
first thing I notice when I meet
Depp in his
mid-Manhattan hotel is his hair. Where are the shoulder-length locks
that have
graced the covers of a thousand magazines and made Depp into an
X-generation
hero? Johnny Depp with short hair is somehow a very different
person—not,
maybe, quite so different as a cross-dressing 40s B-movie director,
which is
what he's currently playing in Tim Burton's new movie, Ed
Wood, but different nonetheless.
—Dan
Yakir
Sky Magazine, April 1994
He
was
so generous and happy that he
would give you the
shirt right off his back. And I do mean that; he came into the makeup
trailer
for his daily regimen, and I commented to him that I liked his shirt.
He took
it off and gave it to me.
—Patty
York
Don Juan deMarco makeup artist,
Vogue,
September 1994
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Johnny
Depp, so often described as androgynously beautiful, is really more
like a male
cat, a creature so sure of himself that his more masculine traits
aren't the
first things you notice about him. You can see it in the way he
underplays
every role. Sometimes you look at him and you think he's not doing much
at all;
then you realize that what he's doing is so economical and so
understated that
you can't afford to take your eyes off him for an instant.
He
wastes no line, expression or arc of movement. Like those ancient inky
creatures painted on Japanese scrolls with just two or three strokes,
he's both
the suggestion and the essence of feline masculinity, all implied
muscle and
Zen intelligence.
—Stephanie
Zacharek
Salon article, Not Just Another Pretty Face, April 2001
In
his
recent review of Blow,
New
Yorker critic David
Denby lauded Depp, even as he lamented that he's never quite broken
through.
But I'd argue that Depp has broken through again and again, so many
times that
it's hard to pinpoint one definable pinnacle of glory. His subtlety is
his
strong suit. His star power isn't the same brand that Julia Roberts
has;
there's no false flashiness to him. He'll never be the flavor of the
month,
because there's no month big enough to hold him.
—Stephanie
Zacharek
Salon.com, April 2001
Johnny Depp, who may be the biggest
star in the world today,
thanks mostly to the Caribbean picture, is an actor who takes chances,
will go
way out there, as he did in Pirates,
and explore a character that other actors would shy away from.
—Richard
Zanuck
producer of Charlie and the Chocolate
Factory
We have Johnny Depp at his best.
Willy Wonka has always been
a very eccentric character, but you put Johnny Depp in his shoes and he
becomes
even more eccentric.
—Richard
Zanuck
producer of Charlie and the Chocolate
Factory
Johnny and Tim are like any good team with
almost an unspoken way of doing things, and can practically read each other’s
minds. Johnny looks to Tim for guidance, and Tim looks to Johnny for taking
what he has outlined and pushing it a little further. It’s a deep friendship,
and they’re both lovely people, fun to work with and hard-working. And they’re
both at the top of their game. So the combination is wonderful in terms of
freshness and inventiveness.
—Richard
Zanuck
producer, Sweeney Todd
Johnny
in front of his victims with the
razor is almost like a ballet dancer, dancing around them.
—Richard
D.
Zanuck, producer, Sweeney Todd
The New York Times, November 2007