Joaquin Phoenix Quotes

I'm sure some people have an absolute grasp of where they are in their careers. I just don't think about it that much.

I'm very career-driven.

My career needs to progress. Time's ticking.

Some people are very ambitious and plan their whole careers, but I am not that kind of a person.

I want to go higher in my career. This is not my best. My best is yet to come.

Each of my career decisions has been very much about doing what I wanted to achieve in the role and then finding another challenge.

I really moved through my career based on curiosity about something. I never looked at a title and said, 'I want that.'

My career has mostly been jobs I love or cases where I needed money.

In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made.

If I had my career over again? Maybe I'd say to myself, speed it up a little.

Don't try to start a career in LA, unless money is all you're interested in.

I don't believe in that kind of pragmatic career ladder stuff.

I've just been lucky. I'd like to have more choices, and I'd like to have a leading part.

The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.

Nothing is a career move. Everything I've done this year has so not been a career move.

I've already figured out when I'm going to be No. 2 and No. 1.

At times, I think of my career as a map. The closer you get to the map, the more you know where you are, but the closer I get to my career, the less happy I feel. At the same time, I have carved out the career for myself which I wanted.

I view my career like a rubber-band ball in that every role is a new experience building toward something bigger.

I've kind of looked at my whole career as a spring training invite.

I've never planned my career, really. It just comes along, and I do whatever comes next!

I wanted to be in this business, and once I got into the business I knew I enjoyed it, and I liked it, and I wanted to continue, but I never had a five year plan.

I've been pretty career-focused since moving to New York.

It took a long time to get to the place in my career where I could pick and choose what I wanted to do.

What I wanted more than anything was a long career.

The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it.