Joaquin Phoenix

“I don't spend most of my life in front of the media.”

“For me, I'd rather have an intense experience than not.”

“I don't know a single person in life that doesn't have conflict.”

“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!”

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

“Every movie soaks into you for a certain amount of time.”

“I never prepare. I think that's completely overrated. It's a very simple job. All you have to do is hit this bright mark, stand in the right spot and say the line. So I don't really believe in preparation.”

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

“I guess my experience with some stuff is kind of abstract.”

“When I decide to do something, I stick with it, total commitment.”

“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 mean, I don't like sitting at a table with seven or eight people asking me questions and kind of listening to what I'm doing - scrutinizing my thoughts and things like that. I just don't like it. I can't understand how anyone would.”

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

“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'm incredibly lazy!”

“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.”

“When I look back I can't believe how my parents managed, but the cliche is true. We didn't have money, but we were rich in so many other ways.”

“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.”

“כשליב [טיילר] ואני נפגשנו, הייתה לזה סיבה – הייתי באמת זקוק לה והיא באמת הייתה זקוקה לי. ובשלב מסוים, אני חושב שהפסקנו להתפתח זה עם זה, הפסקנו להתקדם וקיבלנו החלטה בוגרת מאוד לא להמשיך יחד, למרות שעדיין הייתה שם אהבה גדולה. אין שום דבר רכילותי שאני יכול לחלוק. אני אסיר תודה שהיה לנו את הזמן שהיה לנו.”