Johnny Depp Quotes

I always performed out of fear of failure - and that's a tough way to play. It was as if my back was to the wall and I was constantly surrounded by very dangerous people that were not friendly to me.

You have to have fear to take risks - and I want to at least try.

Well, I always run the risk of falling on my face, which has in fact happened.

Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose.

Failure isn't an option. I've erased the word 'fear' from my vocabulary, and I think when you erase fear, you can't fail.

His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.

I think my whole life, because of where I came from, I had a fear of failure.

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

To be honest, I probably wouldn't have gone to Hollywood if I hadn't been offered 'Ugly Betty' because I was a wee bit feart. But you have to make yourself frightened. That's what keeps you alive.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.

I don't work with fear, and I don't work with actors that are fearful.

I feel completely fearless when I'm on stage. And also totally fearful. There's the fear that I'm not making a very smart career move sometimes, but there's the stronger belief that these things need to be said.

I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.

Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.

Pretty much every time I try something different or do something in front of a live audience, I truly think they might throw peanuts at me.

I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

You cant be afraid to take a risk. You can't be afraid to take a risk because you think you might fail.

I think, as an actor, you're constantly confronted with your fear of sticking your neck out.

I love challenge. I love to be afraid before a film, before acting. I think always I want to experience fear. I've become addicted to this feeling.

People get so scared to try things.

I'm terrorized by a fear of failure. Failure is always there.

If you are afraid to fail, you will never succeed.

Suppose you should fail. Is that so terrible? Not to have tried is a worse failure.