Joaquin Phoenix Quotes

It takes nothing away from a human to be kind to an animal.

We are all animals of this planet. We are all creatures. And nonhuman animals experience pain sensations just like we do. They too are strong, intelligent, industrious, mobile, and evolutional. They too are capable of growth and adaptation. Like us, firsthand foremost, they are earthlings. And like us, they are surviving. Like us they also seek their own comfort rather than discomfort. And like us they express degrees of emotion. In short like us, they are alive.

I've been prepping for my role as Medusa.

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

Animal rights is a part of my everyday life. When you live by example, you create a certain level of awareness. Friends of mine - people I have never discussed animal rights or vegetarianism with - are adopting vegetarian habits because they see it.

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.

Is it that your dream is unattainable or is it that you have the wrong dream?

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.

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.

Do I have a large frog in my hair? I have the sensation that something is eating my brain.

I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one fish was caught, he was writhing, then he was thrown against the side of the boat. You couldn't disguise what it was. This was what we did to animals to eat them. The animal went from a living, vibrant creature fighting for life to a violent death. I recognized it, as did my brothers and sisters.

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.

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

As a nation, this is the moment to start seriously investing our time, energy and resources into proven methods of reducing violence, both within our nation as well as internationally. The cost of violence to our culture and our children is simply not sustainable.

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

I love having a master. I have no problem serving my director. That's my job. I want to make them happy.

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

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

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

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 believe in god. I don't believe in an afterlife. I don't believe in soul. I don't believe in anything. I think it's totally right for people to have their own beliefs if it makes them happy, but to me it's a pretty preposterous idea.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Acting is real important to me. I love it, and it's something I care about.

I don't have the slightest desire to speak over my dead brother. It gets on my nerves to always be compared with him. My brother was a magnificent person and an outstanding actor.

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.

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.

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

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

The less someone knows about me, the better, because my intention is to play a variety of characters.

There is no need for fur - since there are compassionate alternatives.

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

The footage that you're about to watch of China's dog-leather trade is one of the worst things I've ever seen.

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.

I've always loved hip-hop, since I was a kid, that's the music that I loved. I think everyone of our generation kind of fantasized about hip-hop in some ways.

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.

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

I'm going to sound a little weird here, but I like to spend a lot of time on my own in the woods. I don't exactly sneak off in the middle of the night, but I like to be in a place where no one can reach me by phone or e-mail.

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

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

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

I'm proud of my brother. I would never not want to be associated with him.

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

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.

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.