Joaquin Phoenix Quotes
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I feel like everything you learn as an actor growing up is wrong. You're supposed to hit your mark, find your light and know your lines. Those are all things that just make things wooden, dull and boring.
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I'm not technical.
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I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it's a way of laughing at it and getting a release.
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Things are rarely as exciting or dramatic as we make them out to be in the press.
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It's an amazing feeling to go into a studio and really be alone.
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There was a time when I read a script and I just got excited about the possibilities.
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Once I became a total buffoon, it was so liberating.
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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.
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There are kids who get on a BMX bike when they're eight years old and they go, 'Whoa, this is incredible,' and grow up to do extreme sports. It's the same for me with acting.
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In most films - especially in regards to the protagonist - really from the get-go they set up some scenario that endears that character to the audience. Or imbues him with some nobility or heroism or something.
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The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.
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I guess I had what you could call an unconventional upbringing.
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I would try and sing along with bands that I like but it sounded so atrocious that I couldn't.
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In every film, whether it's a fictional character or not, you create an idea of the character and for me I always do a bad impersonation to start with.
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I think the day that I become comfortable doing interviews and going on talk shows is the day that I don't know what it is to be a human being anymore.
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I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death.
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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.
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You can take that 'I'm an artiste' stuff to the wrong extreme, too.
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I just I don't feel challenged by acting anymore. I don't enjoy the process anymore.
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It's hard for me to put my feelings into words.