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I guess I had what you could call an unconventional upbringing.

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Joaquin Phoenix
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: October 28
Activist
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I'm very thankful for the people that I've had the opportunity to work with. I have a good life. It's been amazing. I'm not complaining. It's not like acting has ruined me so I have to leave. It's not that. I'm just done with it.
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I don't spend most of my life in front of the media.
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Acting is real important to me. I love it, and it's something I care about.
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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 would try and sing along with bands that I like but it sounded so atrocious that I couldn't.
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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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They tell you to memorize your lines, follow your light, and hit your marks. Those are the three things that you shouldn't do. You should not learn your lines, you should not hit your mark, and you should never follow your light. Find your light - that's my opinion. Everyone else will tell me I'm wrong, but that's my opinion.
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Getting into the character is difficult and letting go of your life and the things that kind of define you, whatever it is in life that's your daily routine because you sort of find yourself in this other life and that's difficult and the other end is difficult.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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I don't bring my life into a character at all.
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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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I'm proud of my brother. I would never not want to be associated with him.
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Every single movie that I've ever done has affected my life I always feel more changed by a character than I affect them or change them, always. I mean, that's just kind of the way it is.
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I've made up so many stores about my name, I can't remember.
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I enjoy writing rhymes and sitting alone in a room listening to beats. It's pretty amazing.
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It's an amazing feeling to go into a studio and really be alone.
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I do like to collaborate, and I like hearing other people, and I like how somebody's performance will affect my own.
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