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I never prepare. I think that's completely overrated. It's a very simple job. All you have to do is hit this bright mark, stand in the right spot and say the line. So I don't really believe in preparation. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#bright #completely #hit #i #i think

I feel an obligation to set the record straight. Actors that say they're affected by something, that it changes their life, that they take it home with them, they're just trying to get nominated for an Oscar! ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#changes #feel #get #home #i

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

There was a time when I read a script and I just got excited about the possibilities. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#excited #got #i #just #possibilities

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#any #attitude #departure #detested #health

I've always wanted to sing, just as I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song. It was a feeling I had. ↗

— Edith Piaf

#annals #day #feeling #had #i

From this time on, the universe is built up into an aggregate of permanent objects connected by causal relations that are independent of the subject and are placed in objective space and time. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#built #causal #connected #independent #into

God invented concubinage, satan marriage. ↗

— Francis Picabia

#invented #marriage #satan

Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery. ↗

— Francis Picabia

#each #maybe #men #misery #only

I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#face #family #go #heaven #i