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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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Joaquin Phoenix
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: October 28
Activist
Actor
Animal Rights Advocate
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Film Actor
Film Producer
Music Video Director
Rapper
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San Juan
Puerto Rico
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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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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 love doing the music. I love programming beats and kind of working on the music as much, if not more, than the actual rapping.
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I love having a master. I have no problem serving my director. That's my job. I want to make them happy.
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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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It's an amazing feeling to go into a studio and really be alone.
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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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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 enjoy humour more than anything, I don't really sit around banging my head and crying 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 loved hip-hop. The first stuff I heard was Public Enemy, and I couldn't believe it. It was amazing, and I've always loved hip-hop.
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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 don't spend most of my life in front of the media.
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I don't bring my life into a character at all.
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I've worked with a lot of people on music and often times those things don't work out.
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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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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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The reason I keep making movies is I hate the last thing I did. I'm trying to rectify my wrongs.
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I know if I'm lost in the moment or not.
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