Joaquin Phoenix
Joaquin Phoenix

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

Joaquin Phoenix
Joaquin Phoenix

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

Joaquin Phoenix
Joaquin Phoenix

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.

Joaquin Phoenix
Joaquin Phoenix

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

Joaquin Phoenix
Joaquin Phoenix

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

Joaquin Phoenix
Joaquin Phoenix

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

Joaquin Phoenix
Joaquin Phoenix

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.

Joaquin Phoenix
Joaquin Phoenix

Sometimes a character is really based on research that you do. Other times it's just based on your imagination or perhaps your conversation with the director. Or sometimes all of the above. It depends on the movie and character.

Joaquin Phoenix
Joaquin Phoenix

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

Joaquin Phoenix
Joaquin Phoenix

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.

Joaquin Phoenix
Joaquin Phoenix

I still think that movies are amazing; I respect actors and directors.

Joaquin Phoenix
Joaquin Phoenix

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

Joaquin Phoenix
Joaquin Phoenix

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

Joaquin Phoenix
Joaquin Phoenix

I mean, I don't like sitting at a table with seven or eight people asking me questions and kind of listening to what I'm doing - scrutinizing my thoughts and things like that. I just don't like it. I can't understand how anyone would.

Joaquin Phoenix
Joaquin Phoenix

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.

Joaquin Phoenix
Joaquin Phoenix

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.

Joaquin Phoenix
Joaquin Phoenix

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

Joaquin Phoenix
Joaquin Phoenix

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

Joaquin Phoenix
Joaquin Phoenix

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

Joaquin Phoenix
Joaquin Phoenix

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