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"Trips to the dentist - I like to postpone that kind of thing"

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Procrastination sounds charming when Johnny Depp says it because his public persona has long been built around stylish avoidance: the louche outsider, the man who slips the leash of polite routines. “Trips to the dentist” is deliberately mundane, almost aggressively unglamorous, and that’s the point. He’s not confessing a tragic flaw; he’s folding a universal dread into a wink. The dash functions like a shrug on the page, turning what could be a complaint into a bit of self-mythology: yes, even the guy who plays pirates and eccentrics is still bargaining with the calendar over a drill.

The intent is comedic, but the subtext runs on control. Dentistry is intimate, invasive, and scheduled; it’s the body made bureaucratic. Postponing it isn’t just laziness, it’s a tiny rebellion against being managed, inspected, told what needs fixing. For an actor whose career has often celebrated characters who resist domestication, dodging the dentist becomes a micro-version of that larger narrative: I’ll deal with discomfort on my terms, later.

Context matters, too. Celebrity interviews thrive on “relatable” confessions that sand down the distance between icon and audience. This is a safe vice: everyone understands it, no one’s harmed, and it plays into a roguish image without requiring any real risk. The humor is in the deflation - the gothic, high-voltage star brought low by the same waiting-room dread as the rest of us.

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Depp, Johnny. (n.d.). Trips to the dentist - I like to postpone that kind of thing. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/trips-to-the-dentist-i-like-to-postpone-that-35445/

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Johnny Depp (born June 9, 1963) is a Actor from USA.

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