Joaquin Phoenix Quotes

If you walk into a room and one hundred people say, 'You are a lovely, beautiful person', who isn't going to be affected by that? But you have to tell yourself not to value that. You have to tell yourself - or at least I do - to not become accustomed to hearing applause in any way, because I think that's dangerous.

Joaquin Phoenix

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• We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • World
  • Think
  • Eye

• A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Men
  • Very
  • Other

• I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.

  

  Patricia Millett
  • People
  • Known
  • Supreme Court

• I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Work
  • Walk
  • Work Hard

• Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.

  

  Ralph Chaplin
  • Business
  • Break
  • Laws

• I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • You
  • Hate
  • Know

• You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • People
  • Know
  • Enjoy

• I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Partner

• The idea that modernisation makes for enhanced national power and rapid progress and helps everyone achieve greater happiness has its origins in the astonishing political, economic and military successes of western Europe in the 19th century.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Power
  • Political
  • Military

• I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Guy

• It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.

  

  Pankaj Patel
  • Up
  • Opinion
  • Creative

• Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • You
  • Things
  • Influence

• You start thinking about a character in a new book, of course you're going to think pretty soon, 'Well, what's their secret? What is their problem?' Maybe, 'What is their secret?' is another way of saying, 'What is their problem?' There's got to be some issue, or you've got a totally boring book!

  

  Nancy Werlin
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Book

• I'll get up at 5 or 6. I try to catch up on sleep on the weekends, so I'll try to get seven hours of sleep. During the week, my ideal is to go to bed at 9 and wake up six hours later.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Up
  • Sleep
  • Week

• When you have an engagement, at least in my world, the world that I create for myself, an engagement doesn't begin when you hit the stage and end when you leave the stage. It begins when you hit the city limits, and it ends when you leave the city limits.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • World
  • City
  • Myself

• When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Listen
  • Take
  • Drive

• No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Daily
  • Memory
  • Journalism

• My life is studded with a series of coincidences.

  

  Manju Warrier
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Series

• Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Real
  • Lives
  • Little

• When you train six to seven hours a day to be the best in your sport, you don't want that to be overlooked. I don't train for my looks.

  

  Jennie Finch

• It's a landscape that has to be seen to be believed. And, as I say on occasion, it may have to be believed in order to be seen.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • May

• Whatever headspace you need to live in for your character is sort of where you stay in between scenes.

  

  Krysten Ritter
  • Live
  • Character

• What we went to World War II for, at least in my mind, was not getting taken care of. It was supposed to be a brave new world, but we were getting back into the old ruts, and we were in a cold war with Russia.

  

  Al Feldstein
  • Care
  • Brave
  • World War II

• If you walk into a room and one hundred people say, 'You are a lovely, beautiful person', who isn't going to be affected by that? But you have to tell yourself not to value that. You have to tell yourself - or at least I do - to not become accustomed to hearing applause in any way, because I think that's dangerous.

  

  Joaquin Phoenix
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Value