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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.
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