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I feel like everything you learn as an actor growing up is wrong. You're supposed to hit your mark, find your light and know your lines. Those are all things that just make things wooden, dull and boring. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#all things #boring #dull #everything #feel

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#lie #makes #realize #truth #us

Things are rarely as exciting or dramatic as we make them out to be in the press. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#exciting #make #out #press #rarely

You can take that 'I'm an artiste' stuff to the wrong extreme, too. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#extreme #i #stuff #take #too

I've been wanting to go into music ever since I can remember. I mean even before I became an actor. I just thought it would be a tough field to break into, so I became an actor instead. ↗

— River Phoenix

#became #been #before #break #even

Music is a hobby, because I'm not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that as I do into my acting. ↗

— River Phoenix

#any #because #conviction #hobby #i

I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words. ↗

— Edith Piaf

#even #i #make #people #understand

Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind. ↗

— Edith Piaf

#collection #hear #i #like #me

People say that I could sing the phone book and make it sound good. ↗

— Edith Piaf

#could #good #i #make #people

To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing. ↗

— Edith Piaf

#language #me #native #nothing #people