Joaquin Phoenix Quotes
Going out on a stage publicly and not knowing how people are going to react to you - once I experienced that, it made me feel much more comfortable about going into a scene.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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There's no single company in the whole world that has a big-scale production base and at the same time has screening and distribution channels. Wanda Group is the first one in the world.
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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I think art, more than anything else, helps humans to synthesize emotion and to synthesize parts of ourselves, so therefore, as an artist, I feel a responsibility to try and facilitate that synthesis.
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The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be.
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People tend to think that metabolism is genetically predetermined. That you're either cursed or you're blessed. And that's not true.
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We hire people who are smarter than us.
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Going out on a stage publicly and not knowing how people are going to react to you - once I experienced that, it made me feel much more comfortable about going into a scene.
