Joaquin Phoenix Quotes
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You see so many earnest characters in movies all the time, everyone has a purpose.
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It's an amazing feeling to go into a studio and really be alone.
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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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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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Things are rarely as exciting or dramatic as we make them out to be in the press.
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Once I became a total buffoon, it was so liberating.
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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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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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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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I would try and sing along with bands that I like but it sounded so atrocious that I couldn't.
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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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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 guess I had what you could call an unconventional upbringing.
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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 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 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.