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Acting is real important to me. I love it, and it’s something I care about.
I began acting when River was doing this TV series and they needed two kids for the show, so they got me and my little sister, Summer, to do it. After that I did some really weird guest spots with orangutans and stuff.
I’ve made up so many stores about my name, I can’t remember.
It’s hard for me to put my feelings into words.
No, I don’t want to talk about River. I have nothing to say about it that I would want to be public.
The Star Wars movies are my favorite movies. Oh, those are great! That stuff was just so ballsy. It was, like, rugged special effects. Better than all this computer stuff now.
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.
I had a Catholic girlfriend but she wouldn’t, uh, share loving.
After River’s death, I felt like I was in an altered state. It took me over a year to get my life back.
I don’t have the slightest desire to speak about my dead brother. It gets on my nerves to always be compared with him. My brother was a magnificent person and an outstanding actor.
River and I would talk about being old, being in our 50s together, how it’d probably take us that long to get to work together. There was something gorgeous about us being old together. River will be missed -period. I mean now, more than ever I wish I could talk to him. – on living without older brother River.
My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.
What can I say ? We hit it off immediately. She’s a darling. I’ve said it over and over again. She’s just very real, right there, never like a movie star. She’s so genuine, and she doesn’t take herself too seriously. It shows in the work she does that her honesty stands out most. – on relationship with Liv Tyler
I’m a great believer in people coming into your life, and you into theirs, for a reason. And i know that when Liv and I met, it was for a reason – I really needed her and she really needed me. And at a certain point, I think we stopped evolving with each other, stopped progressing, and made a very mature decision to move on, even though there was still a great love there. There’s no one gossipy thing that I can share. I`m thankful that we had the time we had. – on relationship with Liv Tyler
I was in awe. Every once in a while you find an actor that, with one word, can sum up eight different emotions. She absolutely nailed that. – on relationship with Liv Tyler
I’m not the indie kid, and I’m also not the John Grisham novel hero, but I am all of those things. I do whatever excites me at the time. I’ll be in some huge $80 million buddy cop movie, I don’t care, and I’ll also do some wild independent movie. I refuse to have an agenda.
I don’t know why I always get to play these guys who have few redeeming features. But don’t knock it. Villains are much more fun.
As I’m reading a script, I start to see the character. I always seem to do something to my hair. A lot of stuff I do for a part, people don’t even notice, but I notice, and it makes the character whole for me.
The reason I keep making movies is I hate the last thing I did. I’m trying to rectify my wrongs.
I go into movies thinking, we’re performing, but with interviews, we’re pretending to be completely real. I just can’t get my head around it. And the things we say in this hour could permanently shape our personas. I mean, tell me that’s not a little odd! And because I think that’s odd, people think I’m odd. And that’s strange. Know what I’m saying?
I enjoy humour more than anything, I don’t really sit around banging my head and crying all the time.
I changed my name because no one in the States could pronounce ‘Joaquin’ and I used to get really embarrassed about it as a kid. All the other kids in my family had gorgeous names and I got ‘Joaquin’, you know what I mean? So I said ‘This is not good. Even I can’t say it’.
It’s been a year since last time I tried to give up smoking. I went to a hypnotist; we sat down and started talking. A couple of hours later, I woke up; the hypnotist wasn’t in the room, but his wife was. I was like ‘Oh my goodness, I fell asleep and didn’t get to talk to the doctor.’ And she said ‘Don’t worry, you talked…’ I freaked out, left their place, immediately bought a pack of cigarettes and smoked, terrified of what I’d said.
That kind of fame; I couldn’t have it in my life. I love that we can sit on the lawn in Central Park and I’m just one of the millions. I don’t want to lose that. I’m trying to figure out the perfect strategy. And it’s tough. I just want to be right in the middle.
I had a really wonderful upbringing. We were a tight family. It was wonderful to grow up with so many siblings. We were all just a year or two apart, and we were always so supportive of each other. I learned everything from my older brother and sister and taught it to my younger sisters.
I never think that I’m good at anything I do. I can always do it better, I know my weakness. I’ve never been perfect.
The less someone knows about me, the better, because my intention is to play a variety of characters.
I suck at painting and writing; I tried both. For me, it’s acting because I grew up with it. When we moved to California, we all did commercials and TV shows. Riv was the first to get a TV show and me and my sister Liberty guest-starred on another show. It was kind of accidental.
I remember us being poor, but I never felt embarrassed, or like I was missing anything. I don’t remember the hardship of trying to make it, just how my parents always managed to get through.
I just have high expectations. Every time I see a movie I’m in, I go, ‘Fuck it! That scene was supposed to be good, and it’s terrible.’
They do everything for you, they even brush your teeth. I don’t need that. I feel fine when I can shoot. Shooting can be quite exhausting but then comes the moment where you know how it works. Like a electric shock.
The isolation was important for my role [in Buffalo Soldiers]. The soldiers somehow lived in their own world, too. When we didn’t shoot, there was only the hotel. There was also a falafel snack bar just round the corner. I am a vegetarian you know, and I thought it would be difficult [in Germany]. But falafel, yes, mmm.
Forget the Oscar nomination [for Gladiator]. The real pinnacle is that I’m playing an animated character in a Disney film. Isn’t that the greatest? I play a native American transformed into a bear. Don’t call me a leading man. I don’t care about that. I’m a leading bear. I am content!
When I first heard about [To Die For], I thought, what a terrible idea — a teacher seduces this kid and he kills her husband? That’s awful. About a month later my agent calls me back and says, ‘Read the script!’ And I was like, ‘Joaq — what are you doing? You’ve ruined it.’ I drove up to New York, went in for an audition with Gus, and that was it.
The part I love about this job is the acting itself. Obvious, I know. But there are those brief moments when you actually tap into something. And for about thirty seconds, you almost feel invincible.
I really hate when people put that label on a film, that it’s ‘dark.’ I don’t know what that means. What people call dark, to me actually makes it more interesting.
We all had active imaginations and since we were little we would act out in performances. But later I got tired so I left it. Then I came back and left it again. When I turned 17 I asked myself what most people ask themselves: ‘What am I doing with my life?’ I was older, I wanted to find myself and find something I liked doing. I remember feeling like something was missing, there was a void. I started thinking that void could be filled by performing. I came to New York and started actively auditioning to find employment.
The Oscars, to me, was a recognition of my work, and in a way it was saying, ‘You’re not alone.’
I didn’t let myself enjoy [the Oscar nomination] and have fun with it. I felt like Miss America, I started weeping. An Oscar-nomination; it’s the thing.
[Merrill Hess] is the kind of guy who would have beaten me up in school for eating tofu.
I’m not the indie kid, and I’m also not the John Grisham novel hero, but I am all of those things. I do whatever excites me at the time. I’ll be in some huge $80 million buddy cop movie, I don’t care, and I’ll also do some wild independent movie. I refuse to have an agenda.
I don’t know why I always get to play these guys who have few redeeming features. But don’t knock it. Villains are much more fun.
I’ve always felt when I was younger that there was something missing. I guess you go through that growing up — you want something. As soon as I started working as an actor, I just felt this void had filled.
As I’m reading a script, I start to see the character. I always seem to do something to my hair. A lot of stuff I do for a part, people don’t even notice, but I notice, and it makes the character whole for me.
I mean, I get nervous in restaurants! I’m still figuring it out. Once the cameras are rolling, I’m right there, I’m comfortable, I just let go. In between takes, yeah, I’ll get self-conscious. It’s the process of film-making that I enjoy, not the stuff that comes later. But if you work as much as I want to, your face is bound to get out.
I love acting. It makes me feel good.
I guess I feel I’m being productive and creative when I act. Everybody needs that: photographers, writers. I feel so happy when I’m working. It’s what I want to do. Other than that, I can’t analyze it.
It’s really a glorious feeling. I’m absolutely addicted.
The minute I read To Die For, I knew that I wanted the character to have that Billy Ray Cyrus sort of hair. So I had them put in some extensions and pierce the ear. I thought this was a really ridiculous hair style, and I still do. But it’s funny, in Canada, I’m walking to the set laughing about it, and I look up and like 60 percent of the crew has this haircut — the hockey cut.
I would do one of those huge movies because I want to experience it. I think it’s probably a lot easier for me to do a scene in which I’m having an intimate conversation with someone on a quiet little set than it is to scream at a blue screen because I think a giant dragon’s penis is trying to swallow me. That, to me, is going to be a challenge.
I’m not in this business for the lifestyle, to get into places and have free drinks.
I hate acting acting. I try to be.
I like to find the heart of characters that in other people’s hands would be the dupe.
I really think that the greatest fear for actors is reaching the point at which they go, ‘God, I’m good at this’, because I think the work will really suffer.
The reason I keep making movies is I hate the last thing I did. I’m trying to rectify my wrongs.
I don’t do many big studio films. I’ve been offered a few but nothing like Gladiator. Those films are usually loaded with lines like, ‘Johnny, get the gun!’, the sort of stuff that just makes me go, ‘Oh God!’. But Gladiator offered me everything I could possibly want in a film.
Once you get into the wardrobe and you get on set, you really forget about how much money is being put into your production. It’s just you and the director and the actors.
I love the pressure of making movies. I hate rehearsing. I can’t rehearse. But when you roll that camera, there’s something about it, it’s magic. I’m gone and can’t be held accountable. I’m a maniac for work. When I’m working, everything works. When I’ve got nothing to do I go a bit kooky.
For River, as it is for me, acting and movies were a need. I can’t explain it.
In some ways it can be therapeutic. I think when you go through a really intense scene you just feel like such a sense of contentment and calm that kind of washes over you. Ten hours and you’re shooting the scene over and over again, crying or screaming or whatever, it’s so intense. You know we all feel better after a good cry… Try it for 10 hours.

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