Joaquin Phoenix Quotes
There was a time when I read a script and I just got excited about the possibilities.
Quotes to Explore
-
Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
-
There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
-
We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
-
A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
-
The first president I met was L. B. J.
-
It's more important than ever for America to rededicate itself to manufacturing at home. When we make more products in America, more American families will make it.
-
I don't know how people recognize me.
-
Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
-
I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
-
Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
-
If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
-
Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
-
Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
-
In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
-
I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all.
-
Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.
-
My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.
-
That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
-
I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.
-
Food, to me, is always about cooking and eating with those you love and care for.
-
I think part of what acting did for me is it kind of represents all my greatest fears. I'm sort of compelled to do it, but at the same time, it's so frightening. But I think that the things that frighten me the most in life are the things I should be doing.
-
Being on stage is the best part of my career. I just say whatever comes into my head. It's the only time I feel grown-up and in control of things.
-
I love clothes, so when I wear clothes, they're usually somebody's. You know, I'm not wearing Kmart.
-
There was a time when I read a script and I just got excited about the possibilities.
