Quotes By Joaquin Phoenix

I've made up so many stores about my name, I can't remember.

I don't really make movies because I want to see my face on a billboard or because I want to get good reviews or have a big box office. That doesn't really matter to me at all.

I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death.

I enjoy humour more than anything, I don't really sit around banging my head and crying all the time.

I feel an obligation to set the record straight. Actors that say they're affected by something, that it changes their life, that they take it home with them, they're just trying to get nominated for an Oscar!

I don't know why I always get to play these guys who have few redeeming features. But don't knock it. Villains are much more fun.

Well, I haven't signed anything giving people the right to do anything they want with my image, you know what I mean. I have the ultimate say.

I don't bring my life into a character at all.

My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.

My music is going to be true. I'm not out to sell records. I'm experiencing something, and it's what I feel.

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.

When I look back I can't believe how my parents managed, but the cliche is true. We didn't have money, but we were rich in so many other ways.

You can take that 'I'm an artiste' stuff to the wrong extreme, too.

With public figures involved in a relationship it seems that there is a machine behind their love so oftentimes.

For me, I'd rather have an intense experience than not.

I becan acting when River was doing this TV series and they needed two kids for the show, so they got me and my little sister, Summer, to do it. After that I did some really weird guest spots with orangutans and stuff.

I just I don't feel challenged by acting anymore. I don't enjoy the process anymore.

Once I became a total buffoon, it was so liberating.

When I go out with the ladies, I don't force them to pronounce my name. I tell them I like to go by the nickname of Kitten.

I didn't know much about him, and I wasn't a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and David Bowie, so I didn't know a lot about him.

It's an amazing feeling to go into a studio and really be alone.

The reason I keep making movies is I hate the last thing I did. I'm trying to rectify my wrongs.

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.

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.

I'd see child actors and I'd get so jealous, because they're just completely wide open.

I mean, I don't like sitting at a table with seven or eight people asking me questions and kind of listening to what I'm doing - scrutinizing my thoughts and things like that. I just don't like it. I can't understand how anyone would.

I'm incredibly lazy!

I always have the fear that, if I don't commit 100 percent to my work, then it's gonna suffer.

No, I don't want to talk about River. I have nothing to say about it that I would want to be public.

I've worked with a lot of people on music and often times those things don't work out.