For me, Id rather have an intense experience than not. – Joaquin Phoenix
I dont really make movies because I want to see my face on a billboard or because I want to get good reviews or have a big box office. That doesnt really matter to me at all. – Joaquin Phoenix
Ive 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. – Joaquin Phoenix
I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny – partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and its a way of laughing at it and getting a release. – Joaquin Phoenix
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity. – Calvin Coolidge