Joaquin Phoenix Quotes

I've been prepping for my role as Medusa.

It takes nothing away from a human to be kind to an animal.

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.

My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.

Animal rights is a part of my everyday life.

When you live by example, you create a certain level of awareness. Friends of mine - people I have never discussed animal rights or vegetarianism with - are adopting vegetarian habits because they see it.

I becan acting when River was doing this TV series and they needed two kids for the show, so they got me and my little sister, Summer, to do it. After that I did some really weird guest spots with orangutans and stuff.

Is it that your dream is unattainable or is it that you have the wrong dream?

When I go out with the ladies, I don't force them to pronounce my name.

I tell them I like to go by the nickname of Kitten.

Do I have a large frog in my hair? I have the sensation that something is eating my brain.

I don't know a single person in life that doesn't have conflict.

I like working all the time. I hate taking breaks. I don't like the weekends.

I love having a master. I have no problem serving my director. That's my job. I want to make them happy.

The reason I keep making movies is I hate the last thing I did. I'm trying to rectify my wrongs.

I've been in clubs. I don't like being in an enclosed place with really loud music, and a lot of drunk people. It's not my idea of a good time. It's just such a miserable life.

The offers were, like, a lot of money - maybe not for other actors, but definitely for me. But I don't want that power. I don't want $20-million power.

I'm going to sound a little weird here, but I like to spend a lot of time on my own in the woods. I don't exactly sneak off in the middle of the night, but I like to be in a place where no one can reach me by phone or e-mail.

I once told a journalist that girls call me 'Kitten,' but I couldn't have been more sarcastic, and no matter how many times I've said that it was a joke, it still doesn't go away.

I don't have the slightest desire to speak over my dead brother.

It gets on my nerves to always be compared with him. My brother was a magnificent person and an outstanding actor.

There is no need for fur - since there are compassionate alternatives.

I enjoy writing rhymes and sitting alone in a room listening to beats. It's pretty amazing.

I think the day that I become comfortable doing interviews and going on talk shows is the day that I don't know what it is to be a human being anymore.

The footage that you're about to watch of China's dog-leather trade is one of the worst things I've ever seen.

I've always loved hip-hop, since I was a kid, that's the music that I loved.

I think everyone of our generation kind of fantasized about hip-hop in some ways.

I love scripts about relationships, and I love to see puppy love evolving into this mature love and communication.

How can you work in film and still see the overt racism that exists in film and not just be furious all the time?

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.

Getting into the character is difficult and letting go of your life and the things that kind of define you, whatever it is in life that's your daily routine because you sort of find yourself in this other life and that's difficult and the other end is difficult.

I don't walk around like I'm a movie star because I don't think of myself as a movie star. People usually don't even notice me.

Together, we can make a U.S. Department of Peace into a reality, and leave a gift of peace for generations to come.

There are kids who get on BMX bike when they are eight years old and they go,'Whoa, this is incredible,' and grow up to do extreme sports. It is the same for me with acting.

I guess I had what you could call an unconventional upbringing.

With public figures involved in a relationship it seems that there is a machine behind their love so oftentimes.

I don't think one should be comfortable standing on a stage with people applauding and laughing at every stupid thing you say.

I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death.

In every film, whether it's a fictional character or not, you create an idea of the character and for me I always do a bad impersonation to start with.

There are certain aspects of acting that I don't like. I'm not a person who loves being on set. I mean, I know people that have their espresso machines in their trailers and they like being in there and they put pictures on walls. But I don't like it. I don't like sitting around.

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.

I don't bring my life into a character at all.

I'm proud of my brother. I would never not want to be associated with him.

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.

My music is going to be true. I'm not out to sell records. I'm experiencing something, and it's what I feel.

When I look back I can't believe how my parents managed, but the cliche is true. We didn't have money, but we were rich in so many other ways.

I would try and sing along with bands that I like but it sounded so atrocious that I couldn't.

I don't know a single person in life that doesn't have conflict. I don't really enjoy acting enough to not want to experience something that feels like it really affects things. It's like, if you were a surfer, would you want to surf where there was like two-foot waves, or would you want to surf on like ten-foot waves. To me, the more kind of dramatic stories are more exciting for me, to play with.

Acting is real important to me. I love it, and it's something I care about.

Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble.

Every single movie that I've ever done has affected my life; I always feel more changed by a character than I affect them or change them, always. I mean, that's just kind of the way it is.

That to me was really, certainly, the gateway into discovering John, ... I feel I found the speaking voice through the singing voice.

Every movie soaks into you for a certain amount of time.