Top 35 Joaquin Phoenix Quotes

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

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

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

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

Things are rarely as exciting or dramatic as we make them out to be in the press.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

My parents were just searching for an alternative way of raising their children.

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

The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don’t do well, after a while you don’t get to make any more movies.

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’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.

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

You see so many earnest characters in movies all the time, everyone has a purpose.

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

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.

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

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 know if I’m lost in the moment or not.

I’m incredibly lazy!

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.

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

I guess my experience with some stuff is kind of abstract.

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

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.

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