Joaquin Phoenix
Joaquin Phoenix
Joaquín Rafael Phoenix, known formerly as Leaf Phoenix, is an American actor, producer, music video director, musician and activist. For his work as an artist, Phoenix has received a Grammy Award, a Golden Globe Award and three Academy Award nominations...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth28 October 1974
CountryUnited States of America
drains incapable personal-life
My personal life absolutely goes down the drain when I start working; that's something that I'm incapable of doing.
real acting important
Acting is real important to me. I love it, and it's something I care about.
medusa roles
I've been prepping for my role as Medusa.
kids tests remember
I'm like the kid that crams for tests and never remembers anything.
brother memories fighting
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.
dream vision unattainable
Is it that your dream is unattainable or is it that you have the wrong dream?
writing listening sitting
I enjoy writing rhymes and sitting alone in a room listening to beats. It's pretty amazing.
certain amount
Every movie soaks into you for a certain amount of time.
children culture cost
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.
kids thinking our-generation
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.
cry humour enjoy
I enjoy humour more than anything, I don't really sit around banging my head and crying all the time.
funny thinking laughing
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.
character play intention
The less someone knows about me, the better, because my intention is to play a variety of characters.
character ideas film
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.