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For me, I'd rather have an intense experience than not.
Joaquin Phoenix
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Joaquin Phoenix
Age: 49
Born: 1974
Born: October 28
Activist
Actor
Animal Rights Advocate
Environmentalist
Film Actor
Film Producer
Music Video Director
Rapper
Screenwriter
Singer
San Juan
Puerto Rico
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Leaf Phoenix
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Animal rights is a part of my everyday life. When you live by example, you create a certain level of awareness. Friends of mine - people I have never discussed animal rights or vegetarianism with - are adopting vegetarian habits because they see it.
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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.
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You see so many earnest characters in movies all the time, everyone has a purpose.
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It takes nothing away from a human to be kind to an animal.
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I'm proud of my brother. I would never not want to be associated with him.
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I'm going to sound a little weird here, but I like to spend a lot of time on my own in the woods. I don't exactly sneak off in the middle of the night, but I like to be in a place where no one can reach me by phone or e-mail.
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That to me was really, certainly, the gateway into discovering John, ... I feel I found the speaking voice through the singing voice.
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Together, we can make a U.S. Department of Peace into a reality, and leave a gift of peace for generations to come.
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How can you work in film and still see the overt racism that exists in film and not just be furious all the time?
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There are certain aspects of acting that I don't like. I'm not a person who loves being on set. I mean, I know people that have their espresso machines in their trailers and they like being in there and they put pictures on walls. But I don't like it. I don't like sitting around.
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I always have the fear that, if I don't commit 100 percent to my work, then it's gonna suffer.
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I like being an employee. I like making somebody happy - and if they're not, then I'm crushed.
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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.
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In every film, whether it's a fictional character or not, you create an idea of the character and for me I always do a bad impersonation to start with.
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I like working all the time. I hate taking breaks. I don't like the weekends.
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My personal life absolutely goes down the drain when I start working that's something that I'm incapable of doing.
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I once told a journalist that girls call me 'Kitten,' but I couldn't have been more sarcastic, and no matter how many times I've said that it was a joke, it still doesn't go away.
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I don't bring my life into a character at all.
Joaquin Phoenix
I've made up so many stores about my name, I can't remember.
Joaquin Phoenix
The footage that you're about to watch of China's dog-leather trade is one of the worst things I've ever seen.
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