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
intense
For me, I'd rather have an intense experience than not.
thinking doe quitting
Well, I think that you know, I threatened myself with quitting after every movie. But I think everybody does that, right?
scared made rings
I've never made $20 million. I'm scared. I don't know if you gave me The Ring if I could carry it and bring it to Ozamorph, or whatever you call it.
employee crushed ifs
I like being an employee. I like making somebody happy - and if they're not, then I'm crushed.
sports growing-up kids
There are kids who get on BMX bike when they are eight years old and they go,'Whoa, this is incredible,' and grow up to do extreme sports. It is the same for me with acting.
racism film furious
How can you work in film and still see the overt racism that exists in film and not just be furious all the time?
reality together-we-can generations
Together, we can make a U.S. Department of Peace into a reality, and leave a gift of peace for generations to come.
brother desire actors
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.
acting process enjoy
I just I don't feel challenged by acting anymore. I don't enjoy the process anymore.
trying band
I would try and sing along with bands that I like but it sounded so atrocious that I couldn't.
letting-go character finding-yourself
Getting into the character is difficult and letting go of your life and the things that kind of define you, whatever it is in life that's your daily routine because you sort of find yourself in this other life and that's difficult and the other end is difficult.
character mean way
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.
ideas drunk people
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.
rap kind programming
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.