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"Johnny Depp has joked that he built his career on flop movies. Speaking to the Cannes press conference for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, the actor said that he always tries to be faithful to himself when choosing roles. Depp said: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve been pretty lucky to try and work out a balance in terms of angling my way towards doing what is true to me. &amp;quot;It just so happens that for 20 years or so I made these films that were considered for the most part - failures. Flops. And I built a career on flops, so I was quite comfortable in that arena. And then a couple of things hit. It&amp;#039;s a very strange little ride and you get used to it pretty quick.&amp;quot; He added: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve always had that throughout my whatever - this career thing. I did have wonderful opportunity - and it was one of the greatest experiences of my life - after Pirates 1, to make a film called The Libertine about John Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester, which about seven-and-a-half people saw. &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s been a couple of other things here and there. And I&amp;#039;ve got this film called The Rum Diary, with Bruce Robinson of Withnail &amp;amp; I fame that&amp;#039;s coming out in September, October. &amp;quot;Nobody knows what a big film is until it goes out and people go to see it and it makes money and then they start calling it a big film. Then they even start calling it a blockbuster, but nobody really knows what anything&amp;#039;s going to be until people shell out for it, ultimately.&amp;quot; &amp;gt; Cannes review: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides &amp;gt; Trailer: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides &amp;gt; Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides UK premiere: In Pictures &amp;gt; Interview: Johnny Depp See why people love Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow in the video below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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