I don’t know…It could be an InterestIng character, I don’t know, I see It as any other movIe. — Joaquin Phoenix

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

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

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

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

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

I take a lot of tIme and consIderatIon when makIng decIsIons and what I ‘m gon na work on always. — Joaquin Phoenix

I’ve been a scoundrel in my life. I’ve been selfish, cruel at times and hard to work with, and i’m grateful that so many people in this room have given me a second chance. — Joaquin Phoenix

Once I became a total buffoon, it was so liberating. — Joaquin Phoenix

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

I don’t spend most of my life in front of the media. — Joaquin Phoenix

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

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. — Joaquin Phoenix

It’s great to vote, but sometimes we have to take responsibility on ourselves and make changes and sacrifices in our own lives and hope that we can do that. — Joaquin Phoenix

I wouldn’t feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy–I’d be bored to death. — Joaquin Phoenix

My music is going to be true. I’m not out to sell records. I’m experiencing something, and it’s what I feel. — 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

That to me was really, certainly, the gateway into discovering John, … I feel I found the speaking voice through the singing voice. — Joaquin Phoenix

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

We feel entitled to artificially inseminate a cow, and when she gives birth, We steal her baby, and then We take her milk that’s intended for her calf and We put it in our coffee and cereal. — Joaquin Phoenix

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. — Joaquin Phoenix

For me, I’d rather have an intense experience than not. — Joaquin Phoenix

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

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

I enjoy humour more than anything, I don’t really sit around banging my head and crying all the time. — Joaquin Phoenix

I like working all the time. I hate taking breaks. I don’t like the weekends. — Joaquin Phoenix

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

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

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

Acting is real important to me. I love it, and it’s something I care about. — Joaquin Phoenix

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

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. — Joaquin Phoenix

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. — Joaquin Phoenix

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. — 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