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1. He plays Barbie with 6-year-old daughter Lily-Rose.
2. His favorite aliases for checking in at hotels: Oprah Noodlemantra and Mr. Donkey Penis.
3. He’s used his movie money to make some eclectic purchases: a bug collection; $18,000 bottles of wine; the infamous Viper Room nightclub, a former hangout of mobster Bugsy Siegel; Man Ray, a Paris restaurant he invested in with Sean Penn and John Malkovich; Bela Lugosi’s L.A. home; and a $15,000 payout for Beat author Jack Kerouac’s raincoat.
4. Just because he has kids, it doesn’t mean he’s forgotten how to act like one. "One day, we were filming a serious scene [in Finding Neverland] with the kids at the dinner table, and these fart sounds started going off," Neverland co-star Radha Mitchell has said. "The kids started giggling. Johnny had put this electronic fart machine under Julie Christie’s chair." Hiervan zijn opnames gemaakt, te zien op de dvd van Finding Neverland!
5. His fantasy about growing old: "Hopefully I’ll be 95 years old, lying on my side with a piece of wood with a very long opium pipe … and just a ton of kids. I mean, not a ton, but a good number of kids, and be surrounded by my family and slobbering and telling boring stories that nobody wants to hear. [And] maybe I won’t need the opium."
6. Like his friend and mentor Marlon Brando, he has his own island. In 2004 he paid $3.6 million for Little Hall’s Pond Cay, a 35-acre deserted island in the Bahamas.
7. When he was arrested for trashing a hotel room in 1994, Brando and Bill Murray both called the jail to talk to him. "The cops came over and said, ‘You’re never gonna believe who called you! Marlon f—in’ Brando!’ And I said, ‘Can I talk to him?’ And they said, ‘No.’"
8. Orlando Bloom on the boat Depp lived on during the filming of Pirates of the Caribbean: "You should have seen this boat, man. Shag pile carpet, mirrors on the ceiling, velvet everywhere, like an Austin Powers boat … How cool is that?"
9. As a child, he had nightmares about being chased by the Skipper from Gilligan’s Island and developed a phobia of singer John Davidson — who later co-starred with him in Edward Scissorhands.
10. Though critics have pointed out the similarities between his Willy Wonka and singer Michael Jackson, he says he actually based the character on Vogue editor Anna Wintour.
11. Other pop-culture figures who’ve inspired his performances: Angela Lansbury figured into his Ichabod Crane in Sleepy Hollow, Ozzy Osbourne influenced his portrayal of J.M. Barrie in Finding Neverland and the chipper optimism for his titular role in Ed Wood was inspired by Ronald Reagan.
12. He turned down the Tom Cruise and Keanu Reeves roles in Interview With the Vampire and Speed to star in the biopic of transvestite filmmaker Wood.
13. He released a 1995 album with his now-defunct band P (which also included Butthole Surfers singer Gibby Haynes), and he has performed on albums by Oasis and former Pogues singer Shane MacGowan. en geloof me… het is een béétje vreemd… maar wèl lekker…!
14. His friend — and fellow Kentuckian — Hunter Thompson, whom the actor portrayed in 1998′s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, gave him the nickname Colonel. And in 1996, he was made an honorary Kentucky colonel at Thompson’s request.
15. His family moved more than 30 times throughout his childhood, and his father left the family when Depp was 15. He honored the efforts of his single mom with a "Betty Sue" tattoo on his left arm, and he also sports tattoos with the names of Lily-Rose and son Jack.
16. In addition to a medallion with an etching of Che Guevara and a tiger tooth necklace, his everyday jewelry includes a bracelet of pastel-colored beads, handmade by Lily-Rose.
17. On 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."
18. He and director Tim Burton have forged a relationship that has seen them through four collaborations: Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and the upcoming animated Corpse Bride. But he was still surprised to be cast as Wonka: "Tim’s fought some brave and noble battles [to cast me in his movies], but I didn’t think they would ever come to me for a project this size … I was doing Snoopy dances."
19. His production company is called Infinitum Nihil. "The beauty of it is, when someone asks you what it means, you can say, ‘Absolutely nothing.’ Because in Latin that’s what [the words] essentially mean: absolutely nothing." …die humor…!
20. Before meeting French pop star Vanessa Paradis, the mother of his children, he was engaged to actresses Winona Ryder, Sherilyn Fenn and Jennifer Grey and supermodel Kate Moss.
21. When he couldn’t get out of his contract on 21 Jump Street, he tried to get himself fired by speaking in tongues, dressing up in odd clothing and lighting his underwear on fire in his set trailer. "It was a weird thing not to be in control of your own image," he’s said.
22. He has worked with the Make-a-Wish Foundation since his days on Jump Street.
23. When a German magazine quoted him as making some anti-American comments in 2003, he got some anti-Johnny e-mails. Upset that he’d been misinterpreted, he called a few of the critics back: "These were heavy, right-wing, military people … one has a nephew who’d been wounded in Iraq. I told them, ‘What was printed was ugly, but this is what I meant.’ Each of them said, ‘I understand.’"
24. He can poke fun at his now-less-then-rebellious lifestyle. "It’s amazing when you get to a certain age, and you talk about sleep in the same way you spoke about inebriates 20 or 25 years before," he says. "’Man, I got eight hours last night [and] it was fantastic!’ Happily, I haven’t found golf yet, but I’m sure that’s just right around the corner."
25. On his well-documented eccentricities: "I don’t pretend to be Captain Weird. I just do what I do."
(idem dito voor "Good Ship Venus" van Loudon Wainwright: "He lined his ass with broken glass, and circumcised the skipper", ik heb niet gezegd dat dit voor tere zieltjes is…!).