Joaquin Phoenix Quotes

The world has lost a legend, and I have lost a friend. Johnny Cash was the rare soul who could be both.

He was a great thundering paradox of a man.

I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.

I'm a big-time Johnny Cash fan.

It is hard to decide whether Mark Zuckerberg is the most interesting boring person in the world or the most boring interesting one.

At the end of the day, Johnny Cash was a poet.

Through the '80s, nobody cared about Johnny Cash.

Because you aren't who you think you are. You aren't what everyone else believes. You might have delivered countless deaths but you love more fiercely than anyone I've ever known.

Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical. If there's any one word -- if you had to pick one word to describe the nature of the universe -- I think that word would be paradox. That's true at the subatomic level, right through sociological, psychological, philosophical levels on up to cosmic levels.

I Walk The Line was my third record.

Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine

People are more than you think they are. And they're less, as well. The trick lies in negotiating your way between the two.

I have been told I've got a darkish personality. A few times." Takahashi swings his trombone case from his right shoulder to his left. Then he says, "It's not as if our lives are divided simply into light and dark. There's shadowy middle ground. Recognizing and understanding the shadows is what a healthy intelligence does. And to acquire a healthy intelligence takes a certain amount of time and effort. I don't think you have a particularly dark character.

American movie audiences now just don’t seem to be very interested in any kind of ambiguity or any kind of real complexity of character or narrative - I’m talking in large numbers, there are always some, but enough to make hits out of movies that have those qualities. I think those qualities are now being seen on television and that people who want to see stories that have those kinds of qualities are watching television.

I think the issues of identity mostly are poppycock. We are what we have done, which includes our promises, includes our hopes, but promises first.

I think there's grays in characters if you look at all the great characters, those characters that have those layers of being good and being bad and what's the struggle. It's always more interesting to watch.

I liked rock music, I kind of moved into that sphere, somehow thinking that somewhere along the line I'd be able to put the two together. And I suppose I very nearly did with the Ziggy character.

To date, the enterprise of thinking has moved us radically away from understanding anything.

I think one of the most fascinating things you can do after you learn about your own people is to study something about the history and culture of other people.

He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] was a great thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the best of men and the worst of men, the most protean, most ridiculous, and most sublime.

As soon as you think you know Clint Eastwood, you don't know Clint Eastwood.

I don't admire how much a person has, I admire what a person does with what they have and I think that defines you most.

we would understand much more about life’s complexities if we applied ourselves to an assiduous study of its contradictions, instead of wasting time on identities and coherences, seeing as these have a duty to provide their own explanations.

Winston Churchill - fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.