Joaquin Phoenix is an American actor, producer, and animal rights activist. Films he known for and been awarded for are, among many other productions, Joker (2019), The Master (2012), and Her (2013).
Academy Award winner for Joker.
About Joaquin Phoenix
Joaquin Rafael Phoenix was born on October 28, 1974 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He is a Scorpio….
Known for playing dark and unconventional characters in independent film, he is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Grammy Award, and two Golden Globe Awards. In 2020, he was ranked 12th on the list of the 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century by The New York Times.
Phoenix has won practically every Award possible in his acting career, especially thanks to Joker, Academy Award for Best Actor. He has also starred in The Master (2012), the film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.
He played the bad guy in Gladiator (Ridley Scott) and we love him in Walk the Line (2005), a biography of Johnny Cash.
Joaquin Phoenix Quotes
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.
Going out on a stage publicly and not knowing how people are going to react to you – once I experienced that, it made me feel much more comfortable about going into a scene.