Women may swoon over him wherever he goes, but Hollywood heart-throb Johnny Depp also said that he wishes he did not have to look in the mirror.

Depp, who was promoting his latest movie Public Enemies, revealed he has not seen himself in the film.

Depp, 46, said: "If I could avoid a mirror when I brush my teeth in the morning, I would.

"I find security and safety in the most profound degree of ignorance. If you can just stay ignorant in almost everything I think you're gonna be OK.

"Just keep walking forward. It's OK to notice things and look at things but to judge things you know will bog you down.

"I didn't watch myself in the movie 'cos I don't like to be aware of the product. I like the process, I enjoy that."

He joked: "That is not my fault... I was there but I didn't do it."

Depp was asked how he gets to grips with being such a massive star.

He said that the Pirates of the Caribbean films, in which he plays Captain Jack Sparrow, were life-changing for him.

He added that before then: "I went through 20 years of basically what the industry defined as failures...

"In terms of my process I didn't change a thing."

Depp also revealed that would choose Brit flick Withnail and I, starring Richard E Grant and Paul McGann, if he could pick the last film ever to watch during his life.

Public Enemies had its European premiere in London's Leicester Square on Monday.

Depp stars as John Dillinger, the charismatic bank robber whose lightning raids made him the number one target of J Edgar Hoover's fledgling FBI and its top agent Melvin Purvis, who is played by Christian Bale.

Dillinger's charm endeared him to girlfriend Billie Frechette (Marion Cotillard) and captivated an American nation suffering financial hardship.

Depp said of the role yesterday: "I had a sort of fascination, not so much that he was a criminal... that this guy took up arms against the establishment and he did it with a smile.

"There was a sort of twinkle in his eye which I find interesting."