Joaquin Phoenix Quotes

Joaquin Phoenix is the awarding-winning American actor, a person who saw success at a young age, with the movie Parenthood. On the heels of his past successes, he starred in Gladiator and Walk the Line, for which he gained the Golden Globe and the OscarAward nomination. Following the break, Phoenix returned to the big film screen with The Master. He went on to acclaimed characters at Her and Inherent Vice, before nabbing his first initial Oscar Award win for his performance show at Joker.

As a social activist, Phoenix has been engaged, in numerous charity works, and he is also a part of several humanitarian organizations.

He started performing at a young age to make the ends meet. He spent a homeless, childhood. He lived in a one-bedroom apartment with his family of seven members. He has seen his brother dying in front of his eyes because of a drug overdose.

Despite living a troubled or rather tragic childhood, Joaquin Phoenix bounced back!

Here are some of Joaquin Phoenix Quotes, that’ll not only give you a better understanding of his personality that he is but will also inspire you. Enjoy Reading.😎

Joaquin Phoenix Movie Quotes

• “Smile, because it confuses people. Smile, because it’s easier than explaining what is killing you inside.”

 

• “All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy.”

 

• “It hurts to say goodbye to someone you love but it’s the best for both of us to move on.”

• “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 made up so many stores about my name, I can’t remember.”

 

• “We were so in love. We were together every second, and we were the best of friends and in each other`s trailers. Nobody knew – that`s the amazing part”

 

• “Maybe we think the same things at the same time.”

 

• “You’re the bravest girl I’ve ever met. Now stick it back in, it fell out.”

 

• “Why so serious?”

 

• “I’m proud of my brother. I would not want to be associated with him.”

 

• “When we’re in love we experience pleasure, and extreme pain.”

 

• “I used to think life was a tragedy, but now I realize it’s a comedy!”

 

• “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.”

 

• “You shouldn’t work in your condition.”

 

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

• “Is it just me, or is it getting crazier out there?”

 

• “What doesn’t kill you, simply makes you stranger!”

 

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

 

• “I don’t spend most of my life in front of the media.”

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• “All the earth, though it were full of kind hearts, is but a desolation and desert place to a mother when her only child is absent.”

 

• “In the developed world, technological progress means that you can have a situation where there’s growth, where there’s a way in which everybody can be better off over time”

 

• “I hope my death will make more cents than my life.”

• “When you bring me out, can you introduce me as Joker?”

 

• “But, you know, this stuff, the lights, the show, the audience, all that stuff, I’d give it all up in a heartbeat to have a kid like you.”

 

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

• “You get what you f***ing deserve!”

 

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

 

• “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.”

 

• “The worst part of having a mental illness is people expect you to behave as if you don’t”

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

 

• “The reason I keep making movies is I hate the last thing I did. I’m trying to rectify my wrongs.”

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• “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 don’t know a single person in life that doesn’t have conflict.”

 

• “I do like to collaborate, and I like hearing other people, and I like how somebody’s performance will affect my own.”

• “I never prepare. I think that’s completely overrated. It’s a very simple job. All you have to do is hit this bright mark, stand in the right spot and say the line.”

 

• “For me, I would rather have an intense experience than not.”

 

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

• “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”

 

• “We feel entitled to artificially inseminate a cow and steal her baby, even though her cries of anguish are unmistakable. Then we take her milk that’s intended for her calf and we put it in our coffee and our cereal”

 

• “Thanks for the pain, It made me raise my game.”

 

• “It broke my heart but opened my eyes.”

 

• “I haven’t been happy one minute of my entire f***ing life”

• “Forgive my laughter. I have a condition.”

 

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

 

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

Joaquin Phoenix Quotes

• “I have this horrible sense of humour 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 feel like everything you learn as an actor growing up is wrong. You’re supposed to hit your mark, find your light and know your lines. Those are all things that just make things wooden, dull and boring.”

 

• “I don’t bring my life into a character at all”

• “All I have are negative thoughts”

 

• “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 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.”

• “It takes nothing away from a human, to be kind to an animal.”

 

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

 

• “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’m like the kid that crams for tests and never remembers anything”

• “I always have the fear that, if I don’t commit 100 per cent to my work, then it’s gonna suffer”

 

• “In my whole life, I didn’t know if I even really existed. But I do. And people are starting to notice”

 

• “I don’t think I’m anything other than another idiot yapping his opinion. I probably don’t know enough to say anything, I’m embarrassed to say”

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

 

• “I don’t know Shakespeare! I’m not a serious actor. Directors always make references, and I go: “Ah, I’ll check it out,” and I never, ever do. I’m incredibly lazy.”

 

• “I’ve got nothing left to lose. Nothing can hurt me anymore”

• “I killed those guys because they were awful. Everybody is awful these days. It’s enough to make anyone crazy”

 

• “I loved hip-hop. The first stuff I heard was Public Enemy, and I couldn’t believe it. It was amazing, and I’ve always loved hip-hop”

 

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

 

• “Everybody lies on talk shows. I wanted the audience to like me. And they always like you when you get engaged.”

• “When people bring up Children of God, there’s always something vaguely accusatory about it. I think my parents thought they’d found a community that shared their ideals. Cults rarely advertise themselves as such. but I think the moment my parents realised there was something more to it, they got out.”

 

• “When we use love and compassion as our guiding principles we can create, develop and implement systems of change that are beneficial to all sentient beings and to the environment”

 

• “When he was 17, my brother wrote this lyric. He said, ‘Run to the rescue with love and peace will follow”

 

• “I’m very thankful for the people that I’ve had the opportunity to work with. I have a good life. It’s been amazing. I’m not complaining. It’s not like acting has ruined me so I have to leave. It’s not that. I’m just done with it.”

• “My dissatisfaction with acting has nothing to do with being uncomfortable or vulnerable or feeling like people are going to criticize me. That’s not the problem.”

 

• “Once I became a total buffoon, it was so liberating”

 

• “These were my guys. Fighting the dull fight. Soldiers with nothing to kill except time. They know that war is hell, but peace. Peace is f***ing boring.”

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• “I get butterflies every time. I’m vomiting days before we start shooting.”

 

• “I don’t buy it. I don’t endorse it. I just point the way”

 

• “Acting is really important to me. I love it, and it’s something I care about.”

• “I have 10 songs and three of them, I think are really good. The others are pretty c**p but we’re working on them”

 

• “I’ve always loved music, but I never really played anything”

 

• “I didn’t realise until much later when journalists told me that I wasn’t normal, that I didn’t have a ‘normal’ upbringing. “I was like, ‘Oh, really?’ It was news to me.”

 

• “I killed those guys because they were awful. Everybody is awful these days. It’s enough to make anyone crazy”

 

• “I began 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 was cringing the entire time we were shooting it”

 

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

 

• “I’ve been a scoundrel in my life,” he added. “I’ve been cruel at times, hard to work with. Many of you in this room have given me a second chance”

• “He went on to say that his “greatest gift” has been the opportunity to use his voice for the voiceless.”

 

• “It’s great to vote, but sometimes we have to take responsibility for ourselves and make changes and sacrifices in our own lives and hope that we can do that.”

 

• “I am standing on the shoulders of my favourite actor – Heath Ledger.”

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• “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.”

 

• “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”

 

• “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 thought it was going to bother me, but it really hasn’t.”

 

• “For my whole life, I didn’t know if I even really existed. But I do, and people are starting to notice”

 

• “I take a lot of time and consideration when making decisions and what I ’m gonna work on always.”

 

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

 

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

 

• “Comedy is subjective, Murray. Isn’t that what they say? All of you, the system that knows so much, decide what’s right or wrong. The same way that you decide what’s funny or not.”

• “There’s an expectation that you’re out promoting the film, and that’s understandable.”

 

• “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 at the moment, and I don’t want to force anything”

 

• “I think I felt better when I was locked up in the hospital”

The Oscar Award-winning Joaquin Phoenix shared his experience that how much he loved his brother with tears. With his words, we can judge how good he is by heart. I hope everyone enjoyed reading these Joaquin Phoenix Quotes, which can inspire all of us.

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