"There are kids who get on a BMX bike when they're eight years old and they go, 'Whoa, this is incredible,' and grow up to do extreme sports. It's the same for me with acting."
-Joaquin Phoenix
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"I still think that movies are amazing I respect actors and directors.“
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"Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble."
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"I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death."
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"With public figures involved in a relationship it seems that there is a machine behind their love so oftentimes."
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"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."
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"The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies."
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"I have great respect for directors who know what they're doing."
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"Other bands gave us lip service, but when it came down to it they kind of backed off. That was a little disheartening. But I respect them. That's their business."
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"We are talking about someone who has lived. It must be honored in every respect. The fictional can take any kind of channel - according to the actor's marriage to the character."
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"I think the crux of the matter was that if we were going to become partners in, for example, the International Space Station, we had to gain the respect of a country like the United States and particularly its space organization, NASA."
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"The reason it has relevance is because I, as a popular Arab personality - the Arab people like me and respect me - thought it was time for me to make an ever so tiny statement about what I thought about this whole thing."
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