Things that I like about Johnny Depp

• He is a great actor, with a very high ratio of hits to misses.
• He was friends with Hunter S Thompson* and Marlon Brando. He is also acquainted with Bob Dylan.
• He takes salary cuts for excellent (but under-funded) directors**.
• He chooses excellent roles.

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• He is an excellent painter***.
  
• He is a guitarist****.
• He not only shrugged off Ricky Gervais' attempts to embarrass him at the Golden Globes, he totally buried him with the single line: "Oh boy, he's fun."
• He has been in some of my favourite ever films, including Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Edward Scissorhands.
• His production company, Infinitum Nihil, not only funds cool films that would otherwise struggle to get distributed, but it also has a imprint which does the same thing with books - including Woody Guthrie's "lost" novel, House of Earth.
• His "Inside the Actor's Studio" interview was amazing.

* Who was also friends with Jack Nicholson.
** Like Terry Gilliam.
*** See the Alice in Wonderland bluray, for example.
**** And I heard he actually made Keith Richard's guitar for his pirates cameo.