Joaquin Phoenix Quotes

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

I've been prepping for my role as Medusa.

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

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.

I'm like the kid that crams for tests and never remembers anything.

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

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 don't know why I always get to play these guys who have few redeeming features. But don't knock it. Villains are much more fun.

My personal life absolutely goes down the drain when I start working; that's something that I'm incapable of doing.

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.

I do like to collaborate, and I like hearing other people, and I like how somebody's performance will affect my own.

Well, I think that you know, I threatened myself with quitting after every movie. But I think everybody does that, right?

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.

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

I enjoy humour more than anything, I don't really sit around banging my head and crying all the time.

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.

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.

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

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 less someone knows about me, the better, because my intention is to play a variety of characters.

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.

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

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

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

I wish I had fair justification for not being as informed as I should be, but I don't.

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 doing the music. I love programming beats and kind of working on the music as much, if not more, than the actual rapping.

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.

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

For me, I'd rather have an intense experience than not.

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.

It's hard for me to put my feelings into words.

I still think that movies are amazing; I respect actors and directors.

I know if I'm lost in the moment or not.

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.

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

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

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

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

It's an amazing feeling to go into a studio and really be alone.

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

I've never made $20 million. I'm scared. I don't know if you gave me The Ring if I could carry it and bring it to Ozamorph, or whatever you call it.

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.