#vie

I'm vomiting days before I start shooting a new movie. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#days #i #movie #new #shooting

You see so many earnest characters in movies all the time, everyone has a purpose. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#earnest #everyone #many #movies #purpose

Sometimes a character is really based on research that you do. Other times it's just based on your imagination or perhaps your conversation with the director. Or sometimes all of the above. It depends on the movie and character. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#based #character #conversation #depends #director

Well, I think that you know, I threatened myself with quitting after every movie. But I think everybody does that, right? ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#does #every #everybody #i #i think

I try to lie as much as I can when I'm interviewed. It's reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they'll print the truth. ↗

— River Phoenix

#i #i can #interviewed #lie #much

Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#explain #genetic #higher #how #judged

Every year I tell myself that I'm not going to read any reviews and then I do. We're all human and when I read something negative it hurts. I think when you write it's part of the game, you're going to get some good reviews and some bad reviews and that's how it goes. I don't write for the reviews. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#bad #every #game #get #goes

I think the reason these readers come back to me is because I represent their points of view. It may not be my point of view, but that's OK. Everyone still deserves to have their say. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#because #come #deserves #everyone #i

I will say overwhelmingly what means so much more to me than the opinion of one reviewer are the letters I get from fans who tell me how a particular book has changed their life. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#changed #fans #get #how #i

The first year I was on the show, it took an interviewer about 45 minutes to get it out of me that I even had a dog, and even then I wouldn't tell him the dog's name. ↗

— David Hyde Pierce

#dog #even #first #get #had