Quotes from 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.

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

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

I would try and sing along with bands that I like but it sounded so atrocious that I couldn't.

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.

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.

I don't walk around like I'm a movie star because I don't think of myself as a movie star. People usually don't even notice me.

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

I just I don't feel challenged by acting anymore. I don't enjoy the process anymore.

The offers were, like, a lot of money - maybe not for other actors, but definitely for me. But I don't want that power. I don't want $20-million power.

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.

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 love doing the music. I love programming beats and kind of working on the music as much, if not more, than the actual rapping.

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.

Together, we can make a U.S. Department of Peace into a reality, and leave a gift of peace for generations to come.

There was a time when I read a script and I just got excited about the possibilities.

I think the day that I become comfortable doing interviews and going on talk shows is the day that I don't know what it is to be a human being anymore.

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

I becan 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.

You can take that 'I'm an artiste' stuff to the wrong extreme, too.

I'm not technical.

Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble.

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

The reason I keep making movies is I hate the last thing I did. I'm trying to rectify my wrongs.