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.

Joaquin Phoenix

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• I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Walk
  • I Can
  • Street

• 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.

  

  Major Owens
  • People
  • Country
  • Power

• 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.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Country
  • Future
  • Team

• '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.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Character
  • Success

• I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.

  

  Maddie Hasson
  • Me
  • Loved
  • Realize

• The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Dog
  • Win
  • Fight

• 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.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Children

• Heroes don't wear diapers. It's just not cool.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Cool
  • Just
  • Heroes

• I am walking proof of the power of prayer.

  

  Fabrice Muamba
  • Power
  • Prayer
  • Walking

• It was a great privilege for me and my teammates to follow in the footsteps of sporting greats like Roger Federer and Tiger Woods.

  

  Ma Long
  • Privilege
  • Teammates
  • Footsteps

• Men, no matter what their promises, rarely leave their spouses... the louses.

  

  Yvonne De Carlo
  • Men
  • Matter
  • Leave

• You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes.

  

  Ralph Kiner
  • Know
  • Chicago
  • Weather

• The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Sometimes
  • Wine
  • Youth

• So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.

  

  Harold Acton
  • Real
  • Say
  • Regrets

• 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.

  

  Charles Lindbergh
  • America
  • War
  • Winning

• 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.

  

  Alden Ehrenreich
  • Universe
  • Star

• The booking agent had the audacity to take 10 percent, so we wound up with about $100 a week apiece.

  

  Gregg Allman
  • Up

• A lot of times when I sit down with the other comics and try to talk theory, they say I'm being too serious.

  

  Joel Hodgson
  • Serious

• We use concepts like "consciousness"---"mind"---"personality," but we don't really know yet what these things are.' He was shaking his head. 'Not really. Not at all.

  

  William Peter Blatty
  • Mind
  • Personality
  • Consciousness

• You have sensible women here [in England] but then, they are very devils--censorious, uncharitable, sarcastic--the women in Scotland have twice--thrice their freedom, with all their virtue--and are very conversable and agreeable--their educations are more finished.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • Women
  • Freedom
  • Sarcastic

• If he ever had a bright idea it would be beginner's luck.

  

  William Lashner
  • Luck
  • Sarcastic
  • Beginners

• I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a day, sharing one chair for three of them, and who are very keen to get an education. I have them in my mind all the time. Because I think they need even more help than the people in Athens.

  

  Christine Lagarde
  • People
  • Time
  • Mind

• There is a shy side to me that evaporates when I play on stage, and I like that. I think it's another facet of my character, and I need to do that.

  

  Paul Weller Incognito
  • Character

• 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.

  

  Joaquin Phoenix
  • Sarcastic