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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I don't see myself as the Hunk of the Month.
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If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
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A lot of people think Formula One isn't a sport because everyone drives a car when they go to work in the morning. But we're pulling up to six G on a corner or during breaking, which is almost like being a fighter pilot. So we have to do a lot of work on our neck muscles.
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My work is made on lines similar to those of a film production. A lot of my work is kind of bureaucratic, endlessly phoning up people, trying to find the cameraman and the lighting man, because I am a total technology-phobe, quite helpless with equipment.
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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.
