Quotes by Joaquin Phoenix

Joaquin Phoenix

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

Acting

Important

Real

As a nation, this is the moment to start seriously investing our time, energy and resources into proven methods of reducing violence, both within our nation as well as internationally. The cost of violence to our culture and our children is simply not sustainable.

Children

Culture

Energy

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

Brain

Frogs

Hair

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

Amount

Certain

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.

Character

Mean

Way

For as long as I’ve been making movies, I really don’t know a lot of the technical side. I mean, I’ve actively and consciously tried to avoid learning that stuff. I just want to be open and receptive to what’s happening in the moment, and I don’t want to force anything.

Long

Mean

Stuff

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.

Character

Finding Yourself

Letting Go

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

Film

Furious

Racism

I always have the fear that, if I don’t commit 100 percent to my work, then it’s gonna suffer.

Commit

Percent

Suffering

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.

Kids

Summer

Two

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Acting

Actors

Alternatives

Amount

Animal

Be Kind

Behinds

Believe

Brain

Brother

Certain

Character

Children

Commit

Communication

Conflict

Culture

Desire

Doe

Dog

Drunk

Earnest

Energy

Enjoy

Figures

Film

Finding Yourself

Frogs

Funny

Fur

Furious

Girl

Going Away

Growing Up

Hair

Hate

Hearing

Heroism

Ideas

Important

Interviews

Jealous

Kids

Kitten

Lasts

Laughing

Leather

Letting Go

Listening

Long

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Quotes by Joaquin Phoenix

Joaquin Phoenix

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

As a nation, this is the moment to start seriously investing our time, energy and resources into proven methods of reducing violence, both within our nation as well as internationally. The cost of violence to our culture and our children is simply not sustainable.

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

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

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.

For as long as I’ve been making movies, I really don’t know a lot of the technical side. I mean, I’ve actively and consciously tried to avoid learning that stuff. I just want to be open and receptive to what’s happening in the moment, and I don’t want to force anything.

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.

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 always have the fear that, if I don’t commit 100 percent to my work, then it’s gonna suffer.

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.

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