Latest Joaquin Phoenix Quotes from Interviews

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• I love scripts about relationships, and I love to see puppy love evolving into this mature love and communication.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Communication, Puppy, Mature Love

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I've never made $20 million. I'm scared. I don't know if you gave me The Ring if I could carry it and bring it to Ozamorph, or whatever you call it.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Scared, Made, Rings

  Interview With Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 10, 2012.

• The offers were, like, a lot of money - maybe not for other actors, but definitely for me. But I don't want that power. I don't want $20-million power.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Actors, Want, Offers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• How can you work in film and still see the overt racism that exists in film and not just be furious all the time?

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Racism, Film, Furious

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I like being an employee. I like making somebody happy - and if they're not, then I'm crushed.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Employee, Crushed, Ifs

  Interview With Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 10, 2012.

• There are certain aspects of acting that I don't like. I'm not a person who loves being on set. I mean, I know people that have their espresso machines in their trailers and they like being in there and they put pictures on walls. But I don't like it. I don't like sitting around.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Wall, Mean, Love Is

  Interview With Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 10, 2012.

• They tell you to memorize your lines, follow your light, and hit your marks. Those are the three things that you shouldn't do. You should not learn your lines, you should not hit your mark, and you should never follow your light. Find your light - that's my opinion. Everyone else will tell me I'm wrong, but that's my opinion.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Light, Three, Lines

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• For as long as I've been making movies, I really don't know a lot of the technical side. I mean, I've actively and consciously tried to avoid learning that stuff. I just want to be open and receptive to what's happening in the moment, and I don't want to force anything.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Mean, Long, Stuff

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm like the kid that crams for tests and never remembers anything.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Kids, Tests, Remember

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

• I do like to collaborate, and I like hearing other people, and I like how somebody's performance will affect my own.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  People, Hearing, Performances

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

• I like working all the time. I hate taking breaks. I don't like the weekends.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Hate, Weekend, Taking A Break

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

• I enjoy writing rhymes and sitting alone in a room listening to beats. It's pretty amazing.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Writing, Listening, Sitting

  Source: dishmag.com

• I love doing the music. I love programming beats and kind of working on the music as much, if not more, than the actual rapping.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Rap, Kind, Beats

  Source: dishmag.com

• I'm very thankful for the people that I've had the opportunity to work with. I have a good life. It's been amazing. I'm not complaining. It's not like acting has ruined me so I have to leave. It's not that. I'm just done with it.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Good Life, Opportunity, People

  Source: dishmag.com

• My dissatisfaction with acting has nothing to do with being uncomfortable or vulnerable or feeling like people are going to criticize me. That's not the problem.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  People, Feelings, Acting

  Source: dishmag.com

• I don't know a single person in life that doesn't have conflict. I don't really enjoy acting enough to not want to experience something that feels like it really affects things. It's like, if you were a surfer, would you want to surf where there was like two-foot waves, or would you want to surf on like ten-foot waves. To me, the more kind of dramatic stories are more exciting for me, to play with.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Play, Two, Feet

• I've been in clubs. I don't like being in an enclosed place with really loud music, and a lot of drunk people. It's not my idea of a good time. It's just such a miserable life.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Ideas, People, Drunk

• My personal life absolutely goes down the drain when I start working; that's something that I'm incapable of doing.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Drains, Incapable, Personal Life

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• Every single movie that I've ever done has affected my life; I always feel more changed by a character than I affect them or change them, always. I mean, that's just kind of the way it is.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Character, Mean, Way

  "Joaquin Phoenix Becomes Johnny Cash in Walk the Line". Interview, movieweb.com. November 16, 2005.

• Getting into the character is difficult and letting go of your life and the things that kind of define you, whatever it is in life that's your daily routine because you sort of find yourself in this other life and that's difficult and the other end is difficult.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Letting Go, Character, Finding Yourself

  Source: movieweb.com

• I still have a hard time saying who Johnny [ Cash ] is in one sentence. He seemed so contradictory in his actions, and I think that's probably what is most fascinating about him and what made him such an interesting character to study.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Character, Hard Times, Thinking

  Source: movieweb.com