Quotes By Joaquin Phoenix

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.

I had a really wonderful upbringing. We were a tight family. It was wonderful to grow up with so many siblings. We were all just a year or two apart, and we were always so supportive of each other. I learned everything from my older brother and sister and taught it to my younger sisters.

I'm vomiting days before I start shooting a new movie.

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.

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.

I don't know a single person in life that doesn't have conflict.

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.

I would try and sing along with bands that I like but it sounded so atrocious that I couldn't.

Might I be ridiculous? Might my career in music be laughable? Yeah, that's possible, but that's certainly not my intention.

You're always thinking, What's the next move - the career, the money.

I don't think one should be comfortable standing on a stage with people applauding and laughing at every stupid thing you say.

I don't spend most of my life in front of the media.

It's hard for me to put my feelings into words.

There was a time when I read a script and I just got excited about the possibilities.

I don't walk around like I'm a movie star because I don't think of myself as a movie star. People usually don't even notice me.

I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music.

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.

Every movie soaks into you for a certain amount of time.

I once told a journalist that girls call me 'Kitten,' but I couldn't have been more sarcastic, and no matter how many times I've said that it was a joke, it still doesn't go away.

I'm not technical.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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