Joaquin Phoenix Quotes

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

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• I made my first movie when I was five.

  

  Abigail Breslin
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• I'm the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I'm really surprised if a movie I like does well.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
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• I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores.

  

  Ornette Coleman
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• 'Inside Out' - that was a really good movie. That's the first animated movie I saw since 'The Lego Movie.'

  

  Hannibal Buress
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• Brad Pitt is a dude who just wants to make good movies. He's not afraid to surround himself with the greatest actors, which I always appreciate because I've also seen actors who only want to surround themselves with weak actors because it makes them look better. That ends up making a poorer movie.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
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• When romance is done well in a movie, it's awesome.

  

  Nat Wolff
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• Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.

  

  Barry Eisler
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• I really loved 'Witches of Eastwick', the movie with Michelle Pfeiffer and Jack Nicholson and Cher.

  

  Madchen Amick
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• I've never done a superhero movie. It's very nice to you as an actor in several worlds to go and to experiment.

  

  Felicity Jones
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• Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
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• For me, there are always things to learn. It's like the next movie is going to be the good one, you know.

  

  Maiwenn
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• As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.

  

  Fede Alvarez
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• If people are talking about your movie and they're like, 'Yeah, it was ok' - that's the last reaction I would want! I would rather people would say, 'Oh, I hated it!' or 'I loved it!' rather than 'Oh, it's ok.'

  

  Caity Lotz
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• If you go to a movie and it's a great experience, the experience at the end of it is always like this sadness that it's over, that your time with these characters is finished. There's almost like an achy feeling that I have when I go to a movie that I love and it ends.

  

  Carlton Cuse
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• 'Jaws' was the ultimate man vs. nature movie, and it was a movie that was basically three people against the elements, so that was the biggest influence on 'Frozen.'

  

  Adam Green
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• First of all, I'm Middle Eastern; I'm Iranian, so to be playing a leading role in a big Hollywood movie, I think, is possibly one of the first times.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
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• I wanted to be an actor when I saw the movie 'Die Hard.' I saw Bruce Willis shooting guns and blowing stuff up, and I thought, 'I wanna do that.' It really had nothing to do with acting; I just wanted a job that allowed me to do fun, bigger-than-life stuff.

  

  Zach Gilford
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• I don't have a problem with my body. I don't diet, and I'm not hiding anything. I'm not going to be the subject of a movie of the week 10 years from now.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
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• When you do a movie the clock is ticking. It's like a sport.

  

  Benicio Del Toro
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• My advice to any actor who's playing, quote, unquote, "extra" to think of it more like Stanislavski did. It's not a small part. You are the lead in the movie, in your own movie.

  

  Harvey Keitel
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• Women simply need to know the right technique of shaving to get the best results.

  

  Kriti Sanon
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• When I played, I never needed the spotlight, nor did I want it. I simply wanted to play baseball and be respected by my teammates and the opposing players.

  

  Bruce Sutter
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• Florida is an awesome place to find sweaters. People buy a really nice sweater for their trips up north, then they just keep it in the closet forever, so you're finding super nice sweaters down here at the Salvation Army. It's hard to say no sometimes.

  

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

  

  Joaquin Phoenix
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