Quote: Something's crawling out of my scalp. [Joaquin Rafael Phoenix]
Quote: My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession. [Joaquin Rafael Phoenix]
Quote: I'm terrible at metaphors or analogies. I don't know the difference, actually, ... For me, acting is like your dad teaching you to ride a bicycle. You feel totally vulnerable at first. You imagine yourself getting hurt, and the only thing that prevents you from crashing is your dad is running after you, holding on to the back of your seat. You keep looking over your shoulder at him, and he's going, 'You're doing it, kid.' And then, all of a sudden, you're, like, 'Why are you still holding on, Dad? Let go.' [Joaquin Rafael Phoenix]
Quote: When I go out with the ladies, I don't force them to pronounce my name. I tell them I like to go by the nickname of Kitten. [Joaquin Rafael Phoenix]
Quote: That's the duality of Johnny: he was very, very family-oriented, and yet he was also a s---kicker. [Joaquin Rafael Phoenix]
Quote: I went to have dinner at their house before I even heard about the movie. We were in their living room and John just started strumming. He said he was waiting for June before he could get his nerve up. And I thought, 'Wow, this is Johnny Cash waiting to get his nerve up. This guy has played prisons and he's nervous.' Then June came in and they started singing On the Banks of the River Jordan and they're looking into each other's eyes, and the connection and love they had was palpable. [Joaquin Rafael Phoenix]
Quote: The expectation is this low, gravelly voice for John, but I went through his early recordings and there were songs in there where the voice was so different, I wasn't even sure if it was him singing, ... So it was interesting to me that we would see him develop the Man in Black sound. I thought it was really important that his voice change as his persona slowly solidified. The music was really the doorway into the character. [Joaquin Rafael Phoenix]
Quote: I don't know if you've noticed but I've messed up like 40 times. I'm all over the place. [Joaquin Rafael Phoenix]
Quote: Getting lost like that is my drive. [Joaquin Rafael Phoenix]
Quote: No, but I feel it. I'm not worried about the looks. I'm worried about the sensation of my brain being eaten. ... What did you ask me? [Joaquin Rafael Phoenix]
Quote: They will watch the evening news, see the bloodshed, and will go back to dinner [Joaquin Rafael Phoenix]
Quote: John believed in the power of redemption and offered his unique gift to anyone who needed to find it within them, and in the process, he inspired millions. I can think of no greater way to honor him than to carry on his legacy of using music to connect to all people. [Joaquin Rafael Phoenix]
Quote: Who would ever have thought that I would win in the comedy or musical category? Not expected. [Joaquin Rafael Phoenix]
Quote: You know, the press has kind of imposed upon me the title of Mourning Brother, and because I haven't been vocal about it, the assumption is that I'm holding onto this (stuff) that's just not there. [Joaquin Rafael Phoenix]
Quote: I don't know how it turned out, ... No, of course I care. I hope we captured the story authentically. But what keeps me acting is not the end result but the process. And I was very satisfied with the process. [Joaquin Rafael Phoenix]
Quote: He was strumming the guitar but he wouldn't sing, ... And he said, 'I'm waiting for June to get my nerve up.' I thought, 'How is Johnny Cash waiting for anybody to get his nerve up?' But he really needed her. ... They both were incomplete in some ways and when they were brought together, they felt completed. [Joaquin Rafael Phoenix]
Quote: I'm kind of cynical about married people or couples singing together. I've seen it manipulated too many times, ... But it was truly magical when they did it. They just looked into each other's eyes and he'd soften. [Joaquin Rafael Phoenix]
Quote: The hope, ... was that we could sing. [Joaquin Rafael Phoenix]
Quote: [Long after shooting finished,] I remember my girlfriend saying, 'Why are you ...? Stop talking like that!' ... I was like, 'Like what?' [Joaquin Rafael Phoenix]
Quote: I didn't know much about him, and I wasn't a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and David Bowie, so I didn't know a lot about him. [Joaquin Rafael Phoenix]
Quote: This is the best thing I ever did [Joaquin Rafael Phoenix]
Quote: He was an amazing man. He really ended up being the voice of the voiceless, the people that many would just as soon forget about or pretend they don't exist. John spoke up for them. He spoke from the heart with sheer honesty. He seemed to have no regrets, and that's unique, especially nowadays with celebrities, when everyone's so concerned about their image and saying the right thing to maintain their following. John said what he felt regardless of whether it was popular or not. [Joaquin Rafael Phoenix]
Quote: That was Johnny Cash. He was a complete person. He acknowledged the darker side of his mind. He didn't try to deny it. Most of us are forced into labeling ourselves or others, but that's something John wouldn't do. This is a man who sang, 'I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die,' on 'Folsom Prison Blues,' and then would revel in singing the spirituals and would, in fact, leave Sun Records because Sam Phillips wouldn't let him record an album of gospel songs. [Joaquin Rafael Phoenix]
Quote: James told me, ... If people want to hear Johnny Cash, they can go get the record. There was such soul to his music, it seems he was compelled to tell a story. John had something to say that really came from the heart. [Joaquin Rafael Phoenix]
Quote: What was nice for me was not knowing anything about music and not being a singer or player and kind of discovering what that was like instead of having a set way of doing things. [Joaquin Rafael Phoenix]