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After I had done the first 'Pirates' movie and 'Secret Window,' I went on vacation to escape with my kiddies and my girl, and someone said that there was an island down the road for sale. I said, 'Oh well, let's go see it.' I looked at it, I walked on it, and I was done. It had to be.

— Johnny Depp

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I did a 'Love Boat!' And based on my trip on the 'Love Boat,' I said, 'I'd just as soon not do 'Fantasy Island.'

— Tom Hanks

I was watching TV one day, and there was this open casting call for extras, and my brother says, 'You wanna try out for this movie?' and I said, 'No, I'm okay.' And then he said, 'Do you wanna be on a DVD?' And I said, 'I wanna be on a DVD!,' so I tried out.

— CJ Adams

Well, unbeknownst to everybody, I did a movie when I was 19.

— Trevor Rabin

There were certain films where I went, 'Oh, my God, I'm doing a movie.'

— Salli Richardson

It's great fun that my grandkids get to see the costumes in 'Alice in Wonderland' or a doll with grandma's dress, but then they also let me know they're bummed I didn't do any of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.

— Colleen Atwood

I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was really innocent.

— Mark Ruffalo

I put the movie days totally behind me... It was a part of my past that I really kind of put in a little drawer and shut the door.

— Karolyn Grimes

When I made my first film, I had hardly ever seen a camera before, and I was a young man when I arrived in Paris from the suburbs. At the time, I didn't talk much. I was very shy, so the bluff served me. I was telling people that I had no money, and that I knew how to make films, but I had no proof.

— Leos Carax

✗Opposing Perspectives

I was working at a restaurant, I booked the role in 'Twilight,' put in my two weeks' notice, got fitted, flew to Portland, filmed, and then it started getting hype. That helped me get my foot into certain doors before the movie even came out.

— Ashley Greene

When I was 16, I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh, how wonderful; I'm ready.'

— Leos Carax