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

Quotes to Explore
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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Mr. Norrell is like a librarian trying to do magic... That's the story of my career, really. I stand next to good looking men and make them look better!
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Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds.
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I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.
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I'm always trying to learn and grow, so my diet has, over the years, evolved.
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It's not the hair on your head that matters. It's the kind of hair you have inside.
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As far as the Congress is concerned, we condemn any attempts to oppress the Dalits in strongest terms. If there are parties trying to fan the OBC-Dalit divide in Tamil Nadu, we need to collectively condemn them.
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I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.
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I hate chilling. I hate even the notion of chilling. I like doing stuff.
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I'm just glad my gold medal's at home, because I'd hate to try to win another.
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The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves.
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At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.
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I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.
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If I had been trying to take the job away from him in a sneaky, underhand manner, then I deserved all I got. But it was the other way around. I was trying to get him the job.
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My whole approach is very much about using the locations as a world, trying to find the beauty in the time of day we shoot or the ugliness of it, in cases.
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You can't please everybody. You'd be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.
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When people say 'that's risky,' or when the odds are not in my favor, I'm more motivated than ever.
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I was trying to pay the bills with poems, and it was easy to memorize my poems, because I'd be riding my bike in California trying to memorize them before going on stage at a poetry lounge.
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There are scenes that were right on the edge, but I always try to err on non-indulgence. It's something that I'm very careful about, that I'm just leaning too hard into something.
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I have been a conspirator for so long that I mistrust all around me.
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Awkwardness is such a gold mine for comedy.
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Ever since my United Nations work, for instance, they've been saying that I've gone into politics. The United Nations is a nonpolitical body.
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Do not interrupt the flight of your soul; do not distress what is best in you; do not enfeeble your spirit with half wishes and half thoughts. Ask yourself and keep on asking until you find the answer, for one may have known something many times, acknowledged it; one may have willed something many times, attempted it - and yet, only the deep inner motion, only the heart's indescribable emotion, only that will convince you that what you have acknowledged belongs to you, that no power can take it from you - for only the truth that builds up is truth for you.
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The reason I keep making movies is I hate the last thing I did. I'm trying to rectify my wrongs.