#ring

I don't bring my life into a character at all. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#character #i #into #life #my life

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

If you walk into a room and one hundred people say, 'You are a lovely, beautiful person', who isn't going to be affected by that? But you have to tell yourself not to value that. You have to tell yourself - or at least I do - to not become accustomed to hearing applause in any way, because I think that's dangerous. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#affected #any #applause #beautiful #beautiful person

We were constantly moving to different countries and adjusting to new things. It was such a free feeling. I'm glad I didn't have a traditional upbringing. ↗

— River Phoenix

#constantly #countries #different #different countries #feeling

During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#child #during #earliest #familiar #himself

Fathering makes a man, whatever his standing in the eyes of the world, feel strong and good and important, just as he makes his child feel loved and valued. ↗

— Frank Pittman

#eyes #fathering #feel #good #his

Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#desperate #electoral #grown #happen #happening

I'm going to do 'The Social Network Two: The Electric Boogaloo.' And I have a part in 'Beige Swan.' I'm going to be the lead, but I don't dance. I just do a lot of sitting down. It's too tiring to get up and dance around. That should be coming out in 20-never. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#coming #dance #down #electric #get

When I had a job catering, I catered a wedding for the Smashing Pumpkins bassist in Indiana. And I served Billy Corgan shrimp off a tray. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#billy #catering #had #i #indiana

When you're a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend it's really boring, but it's not. It's enriching and fulfilling, and an amazing experience. And then when you're a working mother you have to pretend that you feel guilty all day long. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#amazing #amazing experience #boring #day #enriching