For me, I'd rather have an intense experience than not.
Quote by Joaquin Phoenix
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For me, I'd rather have an intense experience than not.
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Joaquin Phoenix Quotes
- You see so many earnest characters in movies all the time, everyone has a purpose.
- I still think that movies are amazing I respect actors and directors.
- I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music.
- I loved hip-hop. The first stuff I heard was Public Enemy, and I couldn't believe it. It was amazing, and I've always loved hip-hop.
- Sometimes a character is really based on research that you do. Other times it's just based on your imagination or perhaps your conversation with the director. Or sometimes all of the above. It depends on the movie and character.
- I had a really wonderful upbringing. We were a tight family. It was wonderful to grow up with so many siblings. We were all just a year or two apart, and we were always so supportive of each other. I learned everything from my older brother and sister and taught it to my younger sisters.
- I guess my experience with some stuff is kind of abstract.
- I didn't know much about him, and I wasn't a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and David Bowie, so I didn't know a lot about him.
- I don't really make movies because I want to see my face on a billboard or because I want to get good reviews or have a big box office. That doesn't really matter to me at all.
- Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble.
Best Quotes
- I'm religiously opposed to religion.
- A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.
- I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.
- The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
- The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
- Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
- Like your home's closets, your financial clutter needs an overhaul every now and again, and the payoff will go far beyond the psychic satisfaction of neatening up.
- The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.
- Why are people unemployed? Because there is no work. Why is there no work? Because people are not buying products and services. Why are people not buying products and services? Because they have no money. Why do people have no money? Because they are unemployed.
- Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that.