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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I hate to badmouth any book or writer, because I know how it feels to be on the other end of that.
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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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'Troublemaker' is not an adaptation of 'Metro Girl' or 'Motor Mouth.' It is an original story. The hardest part was probably trying to keep the sound true to the novels. I always write in first person, and it was important to us that the readers of 'Metro' and 'Motor' be comfortable with the change over to a graphic novel.
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If a dog starts biting you, you can't kick it up the throat like it deserves. People always say 'Oh dear, poor little dog, he was only trying to be friendly. That's the way he tries to be friendly, sniffing at your ankles and biting you, you cruel, wicked man.'
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My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.
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None of us grew up feeling like winners. So thank you to the bullies, to the popular kids, to the gym teachers who taunted us, who rejected us and who made fun of the way we ran. Without you we never would have gone into comedy.
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We are not a land of Islam. In our country, we don't wear djellaba clothing, we don't wear a veil, and we don't impose cathedral-sized mosques.
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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.
