Joaquin Phoenix Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I wish I had fair justification for not being as informed as I should be, but I don't.”

“When I decide to do something, I stick with it, total commitment.”

“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.”

“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.”

“For me, I guess I'm the acting equivalent of somebody that jumps off buildings and parachutes.”

“Well, I think that you know, I threatened myself with quitting after every movie. But I think everybody does that, right?”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”