Joaquin Phoenix Quotes
Well, I haven't signed anything giving people the right to do anything they want with my image, you know what I mean. I have the ultimate say.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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I was an expert horseman.
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I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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He who gives love, receives love.
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My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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Any powerful technology can be abused.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.
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It's always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences.
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I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.
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Imagine: in the medieval ages, there was no evidence of how the history of mankind has been affected by witchcraft. But there is significant factual history of how brutality and sadism of mankind have been displayed in the most obscene manner in the name of witch-hunt.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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I approach 'Fast & Furious 6' the same way I would approach a Sidney Lumet film. Getting into character's getting into character.
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God guided me to America and gave me a good job. But he also gave me a heart so I would look back.
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What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.
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For instance, one big issue in hip hop is the gay thing. It's 2013, and it's a shame that, to this day, that topic still gets people all excited. It's crazy. And it makes me upset that this topic even matters when it comes to hip hop, because it makes it seem like everybody in hip hop is small-minded or stupid - and that's not the case.
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Films like 'Bond' fund training schemes for film technicians of the future, and working on films themselves provides a great training ground for budding directors and cinematographers. If there's no money there for films to be made, it's like a house of cards, it all comes tumbling down.
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'I am. I think. I will.'
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Well, I haven't signed anything giving people the right to do anything they want with my image, you know what I mean. I have the ultimate say.
