You see so many earnest characters in movies all the time, everyone has a purpose.
Quote by Joaquin Phoenix
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You see so many earnest characters in movies all the time, everyone has a purpose.
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Joaquin Phoenix Quotes
- There are kids who get on a BMX bike when they're eight years old and they go, 'Whoa, this is incredible,' and grow up to do extreme sports. It's the same for me with acting.
- Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble.
- I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it's a way of laughing at it and getting a release.
- 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'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.
- It's an amazing feeling to go into a studio and really be alone.
- It's an amazing feeling to go into a studio and really be alone.
- I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death.
- I still think that movies are amazing I respect actors and directors.
Best Quotes
- People assume I'm out there having this great life, but money doesn't erase the pain. When you're young you barrel through life, making choices without thinking of repercussions. A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there.
- Over the objections, where they sound like squealing pigs, over the objections of Romney and all his allies, we passed some of the toughest Wall Street regulations in history, turning Wall Street back into the allocator of capital it always has been and no longer a casino. And they want to repeal it.
- There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
- Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars?
- In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.
- Fear clogs faith liberates.
- In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
- Applause waits on success.
- To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
- I wasn't a woman who stayed tiny like I thought I would. I definitely gave myself the freedom to eat what I wanted.