Joaquin Phoenix

[vmob84]

So cute he took his mom & sister to the Oscars!
I wish he could have won the Oscar! I loved his performance in Walk the Line.

 

[sirene]

What a fine hunk of man! *salivates*

 

[FASHIONLOVA]

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[FASHIONLOVA]

amourjoaquin.celebre.net

 

[LoveMyBoots]

Academy Awards 2006 Parties
Manuel Cuevas, Joaquin Phoenix, and Flaunt magazine's Luis Barajas, at the luncheon party to celebrate Walk the Line, at the House of Flaunt.

(style.com)

 

[truebluejen]

Thanks for the pics everyone!!

 

[Heri]

I'm so sad he didn't win the Oscar, I've seen Walk the Line and he's just perfect in that movie!!! But I'm so sad because I think that also in The Gladiator he was great and he should had won also that year!

Does anybody know what designer he was wearing at the Oscar night?

 

[truebluejen]

(jjb) soe are reposts, but the more Joaquin the better!

 

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The full Vanity Fair pic (now my wallpaper! )

 

[truebluejen]

Anyone know what he mouthed at the Oscars? It certainly looks like I love you River, but people have said it wasn't

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71jmFKjdIJ4&search=actor%20oscar

 

[FASHIONLOVA]

it s pretty obvious he said i love u River. but why???

 

[Emilia]

Why does everyone find him appealing? I find him unappealing.

I find him very attractive, unique, different. Brad and others are nothing compared to him.

Vanity Fair, December 2004.
Scanned by me.

 

[FASHIONLOVA]

ON ACTING
From The Face: "I just have high expectations. Every time I see a movie I'm in, I go, 'f*ck it! That scene was supposed to be good, and it's terrible.'"
From Stern: "They do everything for you, they even brush your teeth. I don't need that. I feel fine when I can shoot. Shooting can be quite exhausting but then comes the moment where you know how it works. Like a electric shock."
From Stern: "The isolation was important for my role [in Buffalo Soldiers]. The soldiers somehow lived in their own world, too. When we didn't shoot, there was only the hotel. There was also a falafel snack bar just round the corner. I am a vegetarian you know, and I thought it would be difficult [in Germany]. But falafel, yes, mmm."
"Forget the Oscar nomination [for Gladiator]. The real pinnacle is that I'm playing an animated character in a Disney film. Isn't that the greatest? I play a native American transformed into a bear. Don't call me a leading man. I don't care about that. I'm a leading bear. I am content!"
From London Evening Standard: "When I first heard about [To Die For], I thought, what a terrible idea — a teacher seduces this kid and he kills her husband? That's awful. About a month later my agent calls me back and says, 'Read the script!' And I was like, 'Joaq — what are you doing? You've ruined it.' I drove up to New York, went in for an audition with Gus, and that was it."
From London Evening Standard: "The part I love about this job is the acting itself. Obvious, I know. But there are those brief moments when you actually tap into something. And for about thirty seconds, you almost feel invincible."
"I really hate when people put that label on a film, that it's 'dark.' I don't know what that means. What people call dark, to me actually makes it more interesting."
"We all had active imaginations and since we were little we would act out in performances. But later I got tired so I left it. Then I came back and left it again. When I turned 17 I asked myself what most people ask themselves: 'What am I doing with my life?' I was older, I wanted to find myself and find something I liked doing. I remember feeling like something was missing, there was a void. I started thinking that void could be filled by performing. I came to New York and started actively auditioning to find employment."
"The Oscars, to me, was a recognition of my work, and in a way it was saying, 'You're not alone.'"
"I didn't let myself enjoy [the Oscar nomination] and have fun with it. I felt like Miss America, I started weeping. An Oscar-nomination; it's the thing."
Q: Is it easy for you to go in front of the camera?
"No. I'm vomiting days before I start shooting a new movie."
"[Merrill Hess] is the kind of guy who would have beaten me up in school for eating tofu."
"I'm not the indie kid, and I'm also not the John Grisham novel hero, but I am all of those things. I do whatever excites me at the time. I'll be in some huge $80 million buddy cop movie, I don't care, and I'll also do some wild independent movie. I refuse to have an agenda."
"I don't know why I always get to play these guys who have few redeeming features. But don't knock it. Villains are much more fun."
"I've always felt when I was younger that there was something missing. I guess you go through that growing up — you want something. As soon as I started working as an actor, I just felt this void had filled."
"As I'm reading a script, I start to see the character. I always seem to do something to my hair. A lot of stuff I do for a part, people don't even notice, but I notice, and it makes the character whole for me."
"I mean, I get nervous in restaurants! I'm still figuring it out. Once the cameras are rolling, I'm right there, I'm comfortable, I just let go. In between takes, yeah, I'll get self-conscious. It's the process of film-making that I enjoy, not the stuff that comes later. But if you work as much as I want to, your face is bound to get out."
"I love acting. It makes me feel good."
"I guess I feel I'm being productive and creative when I act. Everybody needs that: photographers, writers. I feel so happy when I'm working. It's what I want to do. Other than that, I can't analyse it."
"It's really a glorious feeling. I'm absolutely addicted."
"The minute I read To Die For, I knew that I wanted the character to have that Billy Ray Cyrus sort of hair. So I had them put in some extensions and pierce the ear. I thought this was a really ridiculous hair style, and I still do. But it's funny, in Canada, I'm walking to the set laughing about it, and I look up and like 60 percent of the crew has this haircut — the hockey cut."
"I would do one of those huge movies because I want to experience it. I think it's probably a lot easier for me to do a scene in which I'm having an intimate conversation with someone on a quiet little set than it is to scream at a blue screen because I think a giant dragon's penis is trying to swallow me. That, to me, is going to be a challenge."
"I'm not in this business for the lifestyle, to get into places and have free drinks."
"I hate acting acting. I try to be."
"I like to find the heart of characters that in other people's hands would be the dupe."
"I really think that the greatest fear for actors is reaching the point at which they go, 'God, I'm good at this', because I think the work will really suffer."
"The reason I keep making movies is I hate the last thing I did. I'm trying to rectify my wrongs."
"I don't do many big studio films. I've been offered a few but nothing like Gladiator. Those films are usually loaded with lines like, 'Johnny, get the gun!', the sort of stuff that just makes me go, 'Oh God!'. But Gladiator offered me everything I could possibly want in a film."
"Once you get into the wardrobe and you get on set, you really forget about how much money is being put into your production. It's just you and the director and the actors."
"I love the pressure of making movies. I hate rehearsing. I can't rehearse. But when you roll that camera, there's something about it, it's magic. I'm gone and can't be held accountable. I'm a maniac for work. When I'm working, everything works. When I've got nothing to do I go a bit kooky."
"For River, as it is for me, acting and movies were a need. I can't explain it."
"In some ways it can be therapeutic. I think when you go through a really intense scene you just feel like such a sense of contentment and calm that kind of washes over you. Ten hours and you're shooting the scene over and over again, crying or screaming or whatever, it's so intense. You know we all feel better after a good cry... Try it for 10 hours."

ON HIMSELF
From The Face: "This is my problem with interviews and with quotes! I don't think there is a person on this f*cking planet that you can define with one sentence. Not with one f*cking interview! Not with a hundred f*cking interviews! 'Cause we don't know what we are! Sometimes I don't even know who I am, what's my nature!"
From London Evening Standard: "People say, 'You've got everything going for you! You can do anything you want!' But I get nervous. I'm confident that I'll work, but I hope it's something to me. Sometimes I feel like I'm behind and running out of time as it is. There's still more for me to do."
From Cosmopolitan: "I look great there." [He is gently told that the photograph is, in fact, of actor-director Ed Burns.] "Oh, that's not me? I was going to say... I'm good-looking."
From Movieline: "I look down at the face of the scale and it's like, YOU LIAR!"
"I never think that I'm good at anything I do. I can always do it better, I know my weakness. I've never been perfect."
"I grew up nervous."
"If you just made a movie about a guy that walked around a lot, talked to friends and played on the computer, that would be me."
"I'm inherently a blubbering slob, I'm like a shaved hamster. So what? I don't need to become a famous star. My work as an actor is forever and that is what inspires me. The fame that goes with it isn't important. I hate the pressure to have to look constantly good!"
"The press has just gone out of their way to insist that every day, in addition to brushing my teeth and taking a shower, I bang my head against the wall in preparation. Which is just odd, because one day on The Yards and another on Return To Paradise, I had some tense, emotional scenes, and you're standing around with people drinking coffee and saying, 'Did you see the game last night?' So you're thinking, 'How the f*ck do I get into this (heavy) place, right?' So I do something extreme, but suddenly that defines me, and it's totally inaccurate, because that's one moment. And they cut out the rest."
"I didn't realise 'til much later when journalists told me that I wasn't normal that I didn't have a 'normal' upbringing. I was like, 'Oh really?' It was news to me."
"I don't think I am [a typical man]. I think I was raised where I was encouraged to express myself. I think acting came out of that. In that sense, I think I was raised somewhat unconventionally. I think that was encouraged. And I think my girlfriend likes it. I think I'm comfortable talking about things that men typically wouldn't."
"I have been trying to reinvent myself as Bob Vila. I've been doing some homework. I now have this pulley system. I didn't want everything on the ground, so I decided to hang these, like, candles and plants. I think I may have overdone it. Now it's beginning to look like a torture chamber. It's like Hellraiser — chains swinging."
Q: Why are you so hard on yourself? Do you like anything you do?
"I brush my teeth very well. Do I like anything that I do? I think like is the wrong word."
From In Style: "Lock myself up [to prepare for a scene]? Who says that? At best I hide to concentrate. But it's true. Sometimes I'm obsessed and a little difficult to handle."
From Marie Claire: "It's been a year since last time I tried (to give up smoking). I went to a hypnotist; we sat down and started talking. A couple of hours later, I woke up; the hypnotist wasn't in the room, but his wife was. I was like 'Oh my goodness, I fell asleep and didn't get to talk to the doctor.' And she said 'Don't worry, you talked...' I freaked out, left their place, immediately bought a pack of cigarettes and smoked, terrified of what I'd said."
"I was on this one flight and I got so nervous that I started shaking and banging my head against the wall and going, 'Oh God! Oh my God!' and making all the other passengers extremely nervous. In the end, the captain had to come out and hold me down and he told me to shut the f*ck up and to calm down. It was pretty bad, but it did calm me down."
"In Spanish, leaf — I think, if I'm right — is hoja, and eye is ojo, and garlic is ajo. And so I would confuse them and I'd introduce myself as Garlic all the time and... as you can imagine, it didn't work out so good."
"I'm not a social guy. I'm quiet by nature. I love to go visit my sisters, hit the road a bit. I'd rather play with my sister Liberty's kid Rio than go to clubs or shows."
"I was a little terror, man. I just wanted to run around and break windows and stuff. Now I just prefer a slow hang."
"I just don't think too much ahead of time. I just take things as they come."
"Thirteen was a happening year for me, man. I tried everything. Painting. Then poetry. You know how you write something when you're young and you like it and you read it like five days later and you're like, 'What the hell was that?' That's me."
"I bite [my nails], yes. I used to smoke. Now I eat my thumbs."
"I changed [my name] because no one in the states could pronounce 'Joaquin' and I used to get really embarrassed about it as a kid. All the other kids in my family had gorgeous names and I got 'Joaquin', you know what I mean? So I said 'This is not good. Even I can't say it'."
"I enjoy humour more than anything, I don't really sit around banging my head and crying all the time."
http://www.joaquin-phoenix.net/quotes/joaquin.html#top
ON LIFE
From The Face: "Aren't firemen beautiful? Every time I see a fire-truck or ambulance drive by I blow them a kiss. I think what they're doing is so beautiful."
From Cosmopolitan: "When you become satisfied, you stop fighting, and I like fighting. "It means that I'm constantly progressing and evolving. I'm never satisfied, and hopefully, I never will be."
"In my life, I try to find the finest qualities in people, regardless of what they look like."
"We always have angels in our lives — people who became friends and are to this day."
"I think fear represents what we don't know. By definition it pushes us towards... um... towards understanding... um... which is kind of the basis of human nature."
From PETA.org: "I think you're a f*cking ***hole if you wear fur. It's ridiculous! There's no need for real fur — since there are compassionate alternatives. And furs are ugly in general, be they synthetic or real. Don't tell me it's about warmth, because people who wear furs wouldn't be caught dead in big down coats."
http://www.joaquin-phoenix.net/quotes/joaquin.html#top
ON LOVE
"I don't really go for a particular 'type' [of girl] although I find that in the past I've tended to go for dark haired girls. There's something very mysterious and aloof about them. I also love the British accent, it's sexy."
"Believe me, its hard to find a woman who will walk up to you and say, 'I find you really attractive'. It doesn't happen very often. But if you meet anybody who likes me, please say hi and thanks."
Q: Do you want to get married and have kids?
"Yeah, sure, at some point. I don't think I'm quite ready for all that yet."
"I don't try and make girls pronounce my name. I just tell them to call me kitten."
"I once had a Catholic girlfriend, but she wouldn't share... um... physical loving."
"My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession."

 

[wildwoodflower]

that man couldn't be any more good looking.

 

[FASHIONLOVA]

everytime u look at him, he s more gorgeous than the last time.
is that even possible??????

 

[wildwoodflower]

i just feel like everytime i see a new photo of him i notice one more thing that's breathtaking about him. I think the whole mysterious thing plays a big part of his hotness.
Yep. Definitly.

 

[angelgaby]

OMG! truebluejen....please do you have that full VF pic any bigger?...i want it as wallpaper too! Thanks so much!