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Quotes by River Phoenix

Achieving success gets complicated. You find yourself hanging around with a different crowd. I probably would have shied away from it, but after a while you can't help but get sucked in... all those parties and premieres and limos picking you up. And after a while, if you hang in with this little group, you lose your sense of reality completely.
– River Phoenix
Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.
– River Phoenix
After Stand By Me came out people were telling me, 'You're so good,' 'You're going to be a star,' and things like that. You can't think about it. If you take it the wrong way, you can really get high on yourself. People get so lost when that happens to them. They may think they have everything under control, but everything is really out of control. Their lives are totally in pieces.
– River Phoenix
Biggest problem was I was terrible for commercials - I couldn't smile on cue.
– River Phoenix
Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in.
– River Phoenix
Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people.
– River Phoenix
I can't on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me.
– River Phoenix
I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I'd ever done.
– River Phoenix
I don't want to die in a car accident. When I die it'll be a glorious day. It'll probably be a waterfall.
– River Phoenix
I don't want to get into the habit of thinking about my career because when it comes down to it, it's not that important. I could die tomorrow and the world would go on. I don't want to separate myself from the rest of the world. If the world is not going too good, I'm part of that. I'll be happy to take the blame. I'm along for the ride.
– River Phoenix
I have a lot of chameleon qualities, I get very absorbed in my surroundings.
– River Phoenix
I have twenty personalities on top of the ten I already have. So now I have thirty people in my head!
– River Phoenix
I like girls who are natural because I am natural in everything I do. If I meet a girl who is snobby and wants special treatment, she's not going to get it from me because she hasn't earned it. But I've been basically lucky because I've met mostly nice girls - and that's what attracts me.
– River Phoenix
I remember we'd roll into gas stations in our beat-up van and I'd tell the attendant, 'I'm going to be an actor!
– River Phoenix
I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity, my name is no longer my own.
– River Phoenix
I told them I was tired of being in the magazines, and how they made it sound like I love them and want girls so badly to buy them. I'm also doing a photo shoot in a couple of weeks - good honest pictures. They're going to print these pictures anyway, so they might as well be pictures of what I'm really like.
– River Phoenix
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 would never, never do anything unless I believed in it.
– River Phoenix
I wouldn't eat a hamburger for 40,000 dollars.
– River Phoenix
I'd like to play every type of character, but only once. I like to expierence things.
– River Phoenix
I'm just a normal guy doing a job!
– River Phoenix
I'm really normal. I play football, go to the beach, drive. We have dogs. I can imagine people calling me a character, but I'm Joe Straight.
– River Phoenix
I've been wanting to go into music ever since I can remember. I mean even before I became an actor. I just thought it would be a tough field to break into, so I became an actor instead.
– River Phoenix
It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have any moral objection to someone else's sexuality. It's like telling someone else how to clean their house.
– River Phoenix
It's a great feeling to think that I can be a friend to so many people through my movies.
– River Phoenix
Music is a hobby, because I'm not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that as I do into my acting.
– River Phoenix
Music is a whole oasis in my head. The creation process is so personal and fulfilling.
– River Phoenix
Music is my main goal, but I'm not going to rush a record out. There are so many actors who have come out with albums these days. I don't want to do it because it's the thing to do. I want to wait until the time is right.
– River Phoenix
Once you get into that street groove, the other side-the straight side-looks really scary.
– River Phoenix
People are constantly trying to make an image for you. They'll dress you up and tell you to pose a certain way and take all these pictures... they want a certain image, so they create that. And unless you're spending a lot of time to create another image to counteract that image, theirs will win. So right now, I'm kind of dealing with a lot of false ideas of what I'm about.
– River Phoenix
People wonder if I'll always be a part of this family and the answer is yes. My family has a lot of good energy going in one direction and because of it, we get a lot of things done. That's why I'll always spend a lot of time at Camp Phoenix.
– River Phoenix
Rich kids gave us their old clothes. They were the best clothes we ever had. We were these very pure, naive, poor children. The rich kids called us a lot of names but it never bothered us because we didn't know what the words meant.
– River Phoenix
Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace.
– River Phoenix
We all have our distinct things. Leaf was the family clown - very witty, very smart. Mom had to work a lot, so Rainbow was the mother and the older sister and trendsetter. Liberty was always the most physical, like an acrobat, very nimble and strong, a really beautiful girl. And Summer was the youngest, the baby of the family with big brown eyes and blond hair, more American-looking.
– River Phoenix
We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.
– River Phoenix
We were constantly moving to different countries and adjusting to new things. It was such a free feeling. I'm glad I didn't have a traditional upbringing.
– River Phoenix
When I was in first grade, everyone made fun of my name, of course. I think it's kind of a big name to hold up when you're nine years old. It seemed goofy. I used to tell people I wanted to change the world and they used to think, 'This kid's really weird'.
– River Phoenix
When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard.
– River Phoenix