Johnny Depp to quit acting? He said: "At a certain point you start thinking. When you add up the amount of dialogue that you say per year and you realise that you've said written words more than you've had a chance to say your own words, you start thinking about that as an insane option for a human being. Are there quieter things that I wouldn't mind doing? Yeh, I wouldn't mind that. Depp, a three-time Oscar nominee, is best known for his performances in Edward Scissorhands, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sleepy Hollow, and the Pirates of the Caribbean films. However, after Depp turned 50 last month, The Telegraph's Anne Billson argued that his career has descended into a string of tedious and indulgent performances. "The watershed, of course, was Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl," she wrote. Depp's most recent performance, as Tonto in The Lone Ranger, has generally received mixed reviews. He currently has three further films, including a fifth instalment of Pirates of the Carribean, planned for 2014 and 2015.