I will admit (with deep, deep shame) that for some completely unknown reason, I did not like Johnny Depp for a really, really long time. Stop yelling, yes I know it’s horrible. At least I’ve recognized that I have a problem and have faced it. Then I saw “Finding Neverland” – ONLY because nothing else good was playing, and he was so incredible in it that it changed my opinion forever. So I had to go back and see all the other Johnny Depp movies people were always telling me to see but I wouldn’t bother with because I didn’t like him. Yeah I know I sucked. But I now get how awesome he really is. Johnny lives a pretty low-key life, celebrity-wise. He lives in a small town in France with his longtime girlfriend Vanessa Paradis and their two kids.

It’s normally really annoying to hear a celebrity talk about how they don’t want to be famous. Generally, you want to kick them in the head for it, but somehow from Johnny Depp it’s okay. It seems like he has his priorities in line and just wants to live his life as a normal guy who happens to act.

To Johnny Depp, freedom means simplicity and anonymity. “I’m sure it will be a possibility someday again. Maybe when I get old. They get tired of you,” the actor tells Esquire magazine in its January issue, available Friday. “`Didn’t you used to be Johnny Depp?’ That will be the clincher.”
His friend and mentor Marlon Brando taught Depp to keep his private life private. “That’s your world and it’s nobody else’s business,” he recalls Brando saying. “It’s not anybody’s entertainment.”

A self-described people-watcher, Depp says he’s learned to enter restaurants through the kitchen and hotels through the parking garage. “It’ll definitely make you a little weird if you’re constantly being stared at,” he says. While he loves his work, Depp says he’s “not a great fan of all the stuff that goes along with it. I don’t want to be a product,” he says. “Of course you want the movies to do well. But I don’t want to know … who’s hot now and who’s not and who’s making this much dough and who’s boffing this woman or that one. I want to remain ignorant of all this. I want to be totally outside and far away from all of it.”

[From the Huffington Post]

Alright Johnny Depp, I’m giving you a one-time pass on my kick-in-the-ear-for-celebs-who-complain-about-fame rule. But only because I feel ashamed for not liking your movies for so long, and I feel like I owe you something. Seriously, Johnny’s logic somehow makes sense, and doesn’t come across in that bitching, complaining way it does when most other celebrities do it. Though I could be totally blinded by my new crush on him. Yep, pretty much blinded.

Note by Celebitchy: There’s also a rumor that Johnny Depp might play PeeWee Herman in the upcoming screen version of PeeWee’s Playhouse that we reported on yesterday. And if Depp agrees to star, Tim Burton might direct!