Sorry for bumping this old thread, but I just realized a celebrity I like...
Johnny Depp.
First off, I think he is a very talented actor. He might also be one of the best character actors this generation, alongside the likes of Ron Perlman. While he does tend to play the role of the outcast character a lot, he brings a new spin to each character and makes them uniquely his. You can't compare, say, Willie Wonka to Jack Sparrow, or Hunter S. Thompson to Ed Wood. Each character is wildly different, and Depp knows how to get the most out of them.
Outside of talent, Depp seems to be a genuinely good guy. I may be in the wrong here, but I've read about how he hates red carpet premieres because he feels they are fake, and he never seems to let all of this go to the top of his head.
I mean, nearly every movie he stars in ends up becoming a MAJOR box office hit (not all of them, but his biggest ones). Guys want to be like him, girls want to be with him. He is making mad money and is always working on something. You would think that with all of this he would either go mad with power or become the king of the douchebags. But no, he is always calm, cool, collected and real. That's something really worthy of admiration. I mean you have actors who star in one big movie and all of a sudden think they can do whatever the hell they want and be big jerks. Note that I may be wrong about Depp since I never met him, but he really does seem to be a down to Earth guy that hasn't let fame and fortune go to his head.
Then he does stuff like this...
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To the cynical, he is doing this to raise awareness of the new movie (which at the time he was still doing). But to me, he did this because he cares and enjoyed every minute of it. He made a lot of children smile that day, and that's something I see Depp doing.
So there you go, I did find a celebrity I liked
