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
- The reason I keep making movies is I hate the last thing I did. I'm trying to rectify my wrongs.
- 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 feel an obligation to set the record straight. Actors that say they're affected by something, that it changes their life, that they take it home with them, they're just trying to get nominated for an Oscar!
- 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.
- The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.
- 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.
- For me, I'd rather have an intense experience than not.
- You see so many earnest characters in movies all the time, everyone has a purpose.
- I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death.
Best Quotes
- There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.
- I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to have experts in those areas giving me the brain space as a writer and director is huge.
- I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing.
- I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier, I think I would have made a lot more musical movies.
- Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
- I really don't like to do back-to-back movies. I concentrate on things at home. My family and school life are important to me. I try to do one movie a year.
- The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.
- If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.
- Mitt Romney understands free enterprise, he has worked in it. He has seen companies succeed and he has seen them fail, too. He knows what people think about when they invest their money.
- It is forbidden to kill therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.