Joaquin Phoenix Quotes
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.
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I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.
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The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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'Freaky Ali' is not a heavy film. It's a simple but inspiring film. It will inspire those who want to go from zero to hundred. People who have made an effort to achieve success from nothing will be able to connect to the character.
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I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.
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The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
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After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I had always wanted to do, which was writing a book.
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Heroes don't wear diapers. It's just not cool.
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I am walking proof of the power of prayer.
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It was a great privilege for me and my teammates to follow in the footsteps of sporting greats like Roger Federer and Tiger Woods.
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Men, no matter what their promises, rarely leave their spouses... the louses.
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You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes.
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The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.
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So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.
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I know I will be severely criticized by the interventionists in America when I say we should not enter a war unless we have a reasonable chance of winning.
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Like, you think, 'Oh, it's 'Star Wars,' everybody has a spaceship' - but no, actually, in the 'Star Wars' universe, having a ship is like having a yacht.
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The booking agent had the audacity to take 10 percent, so we wound up with about $100 a week apiece.
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A lot of times when I sit down with the other comics and try to talk theory, they say I'm being too serious.
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Sarcasm doesn't read sarcastic in print.
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I am pretty sarcastic and pretty dry.
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Actors - we're selfish, but we can't think about the work in that kind of selfish manner. I think that you have to step away from yourself, if you're going to do it. Otherwise don't do it; otherwise why do it?
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I don't think I realized that the cost of fame is that it's open season on every moment of your life.
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I am never happy when I finish a book. I always start feeling good, and then I get to about Page 75 and start losing momentum - and I kind of pull it together at the end, but by then I think it's just all over. It's become almost a running joke among my agent and my editor - I always say that, so they don't take me seriously anymore.
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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.
