I had a really wonderful upbringing. We were a tight family. It was wonderful to grow up with so many siblings. We were all just a year or two apart, and we were always so supportive of each other. I learned everything from my older brother and sister and taught it to my younger sisters.
— Joaquin Phoenix
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 feel an obligation to set the record straight. Actors that say they're affected by something, that it changes their life, that they take it home with them, they're just trying to get nominated for an Oscar!
I don't spend most of my life in front of the media.
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.
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.
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.
I enjoy humour more than anything, I don't really sit around banging my head and crying all the time.
Things are rarely as exciting or dramatic as we make them out to be in the press.
I still think that movies are amazing; I respect actors and directors.
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.
No, I don't want to talk about River. I have nothing to say about it that I would want to be public.
I've made up so many stores about my name, I can't remember.
I don't know why I always get to play these guys who have few redeeming features. But don't knock it. Villains are much more fun.
I'm incredibly lazy!
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.
My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.
Acting is real important to me. I love it, and it's something I care about.
It's hard for me to put my feelings into words.
