Joaquin Phoenix
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San Juan, Puerto Rico
Staying true to his last name, Joaquin Phoenix has made a career out of making a couple of films, disappearing, and then reappearing from the ashes to rise upward toward greater glory. The actor, who began his career under the name of "Leaf," lived for a long time in the shadow of his older brother, River. After River's tragic death at the age of 23, Leaf abandoned his career for two years, making a comeback in 1995 with his performance in To Die For, directed by Gus Van Sant (who ironically directed River in one of his last films, 1993's Even Cowgirls Get the Blues). Since then, the actor, who changed his name back to Joaquin in the early '90s, has worked steadily in Hollywood, solidifying both his experience and reputation.Born Joaquin Raphael Phoenix on October 28, 1974, in Puerto Rico, Phoenix was raised in a close-knit, unconventional family. His parents encouraged all of their children to go into acting, and Phoenix did just that, following in the footsteps of older siblings River and Rain. As Leaf Phoenix, he got his first significant role in 1986's Spacecamp, and then went on to star in Russkies (1987) and Parenthood (1989), the latter of which was successful enough to make Phoenix something of a fledgling star. However, he chose to retreat from Hollywood, spending a few years traveling and living with his father in Mexico.It was River's 1993 death that brought his younger brother -- now called Joaquin -- back into the limelight, albeit a very unwelcome limelight. The 911 call that Phoenix made as his older brother lay dying was broadcast over radio and television in the aftermath of River's death. Again, Phoenix left Hollywood, not to be seen again until 1995, when his performance as the tragically confused and horny Jimmy Emmett won him an array of positive reviews. From there, Phoenix went on to film Inventing the Abbotts (1997), which failed at the box office but introduced the actor to his co-star Liv Tyler, with whom he had a three-year relationship.Phoenix's next project, Oliver Stone's U-Turn (1997), also proved to be a modest flop, but Return to Paradise (1998), in which he starred with Vince Vaughn and Anne Heche, was a bigger hit among critics and filmgoers. He starred again with Vaughn in Clay Pigeons (1998), which unfortunately didn't fare as well as his previous film. However, his next endeavor, 8MM with Nicolas Cage, although not a huge box office hit, did win him acclaim for his portrayal of thoughtful porn shop owner Max California, further proving that the family talent was not solely the province of Phoenix's late, great older brother. In 2000 Phoenix took one of his biggest and most extravagant roles to date as Commodus in director Ridley Scott's big-budget peplum Gladiator. Phoenix's turn as the devious Commodus was a marked departure from the actor's generally likeable characterizations, and proved further indication of his dramatic versitility. On the opposite end of the period piece spectrum, Jaoquin appeased art-house crowds with a memorable performance as the priest who runs the asylum housing the Marquis de Sade in Quills before moving closer to the present and impressing critics with a leading role in Buffalo Soldiers (2001). As a bored military camp clerk who runs goods in the black market, Phoenix's impressive performance was well recieved by festival critics and continued to provide further argument for his viability as a leading man. Phoenix would next turn-up alongside Mel Gibson in The Sixth Sense director M. Night Shyamalan's rural alien invasion thriller Signs. Replacing actor Mark Ruffalo after Ruffalo pulled out of the film due to ill-health, Phoenix stepped into the role as Gibson's younger brother, a member of a family caught in an alien invasion following the appearance of crop circles in the family's cornfield. In 2003, Phoenix lent his voice to the Disney animated film Brother Bear, before re-teaming with M. Night Shyalaman for The Village, a thriller in the same vein as Signs
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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98% | Gunda |
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— | 2020 |
95% | My Darling Vivian |
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— | 2020 |
No Score Yet | Guardians of Life |
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— | 2020 |
68% | Joker |
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— | 2019 |
45% | Mary Magdalene |
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— | 2019 |
86% | The Sisters Brothers |
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— | 2018 |
No Score Yet | Los hermanos Sisters |
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— | 2018 |
77% | Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot |
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— | 2018 |
89% | You Were Never Really Here |
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— | 2018 |
No Score Yet | Far Bright Star |
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— | 2018 |
No Score Yet | Maria Madalena |
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— | 2018 |
No Score Yet | What the Health |
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— | 2017 |
No Score Yet | Unity |
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— | 2015 |
47% | Irrational Man |
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— | 2015 |
73% | Inherent Vice |
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$6.2M | 2015 |
50% | Poker Night |
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— | 2014 |
85% | The Immigrant |
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$1.4M | 2014 |
94% | Her |
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$18M | 2013 |
84% | The Master |
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$15.8M | 2012 |
53% | I'm Still Here |
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$0.5M | 2010 |
No Score Yet | Earthlings |
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— | 2010 |
82% | Two Lovers |
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$3M | 2008 |
38% | Reservation Road |
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— | 2007 |
57% | We Own the Night |
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$27.6M | 2007 |
82% | Walk the Line |
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$119.4M | 2005 |
No Score Yet | I'm Still Here |
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— | 2005 |
91% | Hotel Rwanda |
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$23.5M | 2004 |
19% | It's All About Love |
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— | 2004 |
41% | Ladder 49 |
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$74.5M | 2004 |
43% | The Village |
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$114.2M | 2004 |
37% | Brother Bear |
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$85.1M | 2003 |
74% | Signs |
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$228M | 2002 |
73% | Buffalo Soldiers |
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— | 2001 |
75% | Quills |
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$4.3M | 2000 |
64% | The Yards |
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— | 2000 |
77% | Gladiator |
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— | 2000 |
22% | 8MM |
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— | 1999 |
62% | Clay Pigeons |
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— | 1998 |
71% | Return to Paradise |
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— | 1998 |
61% | U-Turn |
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— | 1997 |
31% | Inventing the Abbotts |
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— | 1997 |
88% | To Die For |
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— | 1995 |
91% | Parenthood |
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— | 1989 |
14% | Russkies |
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— | 1987 |
45% | SpaceCamp (Space Camp) |
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— | 1986 |
TV
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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
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No Score Yet |
Jimmy Kimmel Live
2003
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No Score Yet |
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
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No Score Yet |
Late Show With David Letterman
1993-2015
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No Score Yet |
Late Night With Jimmy Fallon
2009-2014
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No Score Yet |
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno
1992-2014
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No Score Yet |
Murder, She Wrote
1984-1996
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Quotes from Joaquin Phoenix's Characters
Johnny Cash: | That's not my wife Warden. I keep asking her, and she keeps saying no. |
Jill: | You suffer from despair. |
Abe: | How comfy that would be. |
Abe: | Your paper is quite good. |
Jill: | I'm blushing! |
Theodore Twombly: | No. Don't do this. You don't turn this around on me. You're the one that's being selfish. We're in a relationship. |
Samantha: | But's the heart not like a box that gets filled up. It expands in size the more you love. I'm different from you. This doesn't make me love you any less. It actually makes me love you more. |
Theodore Twombly: | That doesn't make any sense. You are mine or you are not mine? |
Samantha: | No, Theodore. I'm yours and I'm not yours. |
Theodore Twombly: | Even if you come home late and I'm already asleep, just whisper in my ear one little thought you had today. Because I love the way you look at the world. And I'm so happy I get to be next to you and look at the world through your eyes. |
Theodore Twombly: | Well, the room's spinning cause I drank too much, cause I wanted to get drunk and have sex. There was something sexy about that woman... cause I was lonely... maybe just cause I was lonely. I wanted somebody to fuck me. I want somebody to want me to fuck them. Maybe that would have filled this ti-... tiny little hole in my heart, but probably not... and sometimes I think I have felt everything I'm ever gonna feel, and from here on out I'm not gonna feel anything new... just... lesser versions of what I've already felt. |
Theodore Twombly: | What are you doing? |
Samantha: | I'm just sitting here, looking at the world and writing a new piece of music. |
Theodore Twombly: | Can I hear it? What's this one about? |
Samantha: | Well, I was thinking, we don't really have any photographs of us. And I thought this song could be like a photo that captures us in this moment in our life together. |
Theodore Twombly: | Aw, I like our photograph. I can see you in it. |
Samantha: | I am. |
Alien Child: | I hate women. All they do is cry all the time. |
Theodore Twombly: | That's not true. You know, me, cry too. I actually like crying sometimes. It feels good. |
Theodore Twombly: | That's not true. You know men cry too. I actually like crying sometimes. It feels good. |
Alien Child: | I didn't know you were a little pussy. Is that why you don't have a girlfriend? |
Alien Child: | I didn't know you were a little pussy. Is that why you don't have a girlfriend? I'm going out on that date and fuck her brains out and show you how it's done. You can watch and cry. |
Alien Child: | I hate women. All they do is cry all the time. |
Theodore Twombly: | That's not true. You know, me, cry too. I actually like crying sometimes. It feels good. |
Alien Child: | I didn't know you were a little pussy. Is that why you don't have a girlfriend? I 'm going out on that date and fuck her brains out and show you how its done... You can watch and cry. |
Theodore Twombly: | What does a baby computer call its father? |
Samantha: | I don't know what? |
Theodore Twombly: | Data |
Theodore Twombly: | Data. |
Theodore Twombly: | Even if you come home late and I'm already asleep, just whisper in my ear one little thought you had today. Because I love the way you look at the world. And I'm so happy I get to be next to you and look at the world through your eyes. |
Theodore Twombly: | Your past is just a story you tell yourself. |
Theodore Twombly: | I've never loved anyone the way I loved you. |
Samantha: | Me too. Now we know how. |
June Carter: | You walked all the way from Nashville? |
Johnny Cash: | Yeah, well, walkin' is good for you... |
Johnny Cash: | You got a library in there, June. |
Roseanne Cash: | Hey, Daddy. |
Johnny Cash: | Hey, baby. |
Roseanne Cash: | Are you okay? |
Johnny Cash: | Yeah, I'm okay. I'm fine. I'll see you in the mornin'. |
Vivian Cash: | Looks like you're goin' to the funeral. |
Johnny Cash: | Maybe I am. |
Pvt. Ray Elwood: | There really is no peace. There's always war, somewhere, with someone. And there are no winners or losers, either. Just those who are still around to fight another day. |
Johnny Cash: | Tell me you don't love me. |
June Carter: | I don't love you. |
Johnny Cash: | You're a liar... |
Johnny Cash: | You're a liar. |
June Carter: | I guess you ain't got no problems then. |
Max California: | My brother OD'd and I have a hairlip. |
Freddie Quell: | Do you know how to get rid of crabs? |
Toby N. Tucker: | I don't think you know who I am. The name's Toby N. Tucker. People round here call me TNT. You know why? |
Bobby Cooper: | Because they're not very imaginative? |
Toby N. Tucker: | 'Cause I'm just like dynamite, boy, and when I go off, somebody gets hurt. |
Bobby Cooper: | You don't know what you're fighting for! |
Toby N. Tucker: | My honour! That's what I'm fighting for! |
Toby N. Tucker: | I'll beat you so bad I'll make your mother sick! |
British Receptionist: | You look like you've traveled here. |
Freddie Quell: | How else do you get someplace? |
Freddie Quell: | What do you do? |
Lancaster Dodd: | I am a writer, a doctor, a nuclear physicist and a theoretical philosopher. But above all, I am a man, a hopelessly inquisitive man, just like you. |
Lancaster Dodd: | Are you thoughtless in your remarks? |
Freddie Quell: | No. |
Lancaster Dodd: | Is your life a struggle? |
Lancaster Dodd: | Is your behavior erratic? |
Lancaster Dodd: | Are you unpredictable? |
Freddie Quell: | [farts and laughs] |
Freddie Quell: | You know how to get rid of crabs? You gotta shave one testicle... and all the crabs will go over to the other testicle... you gotta light the hair on fire on that one, and when they all go scurrying out you take an ice pick and FUCKING STAB EVERY SINGLE LAST ONE OF THEM! |
Freddie Quell: | Put it back in, its fell out. |
Commodus: | If you're very good, tomorrow night I'll tell you the story of emperor Claudius who was betrayed by those closest to him, by his own blood. They whispered in dark corners and went out late at night and conspired and conspired but the emperor Claudius knew they were up to something. He knew they were busy little bees. And one night he sat down with one of them and he looked at her and he said, "Tell me what you've been doing busy little bee or I shall strike down those dearest to you. You shall watch as I bathe in their blood." And the emperor was heartbroken. The little bee had wounded him more deeply than anyone else could ever have done. |
Commodus: | If you're very good, tomorrow night I'll tell you the story of emperor Claudius who was betrayed by those closest to him, by his own blood. They whispered in dark corners and went out late at night and conspired and conspired but the emperor Claudius knew they were up to something. He knew they were busy little bees. And one night he sat down with one of them and he looked at her and he said, 'Tell me what you've been doing busy little bee or I shall strike down those dearest to you. You shall watch as I bathe in their blood.' And the emperor was heartbroken. The little bee had wounded him more deeply than anyone else could ever have done. |
Lancaster Dodd: | You seem so familiar to me. |
Freddie Sutton: | Wha what do you do? |
Freddie Quell: | Yeah, what do you do? |
Lancaster Dodd: | I am a writer, a doctor, a nuclear physicist, a theoretical philosopher... but above all I am a man. Hopelessly Inquisitive man, just like you. |
Lancaster Dodd: | I do many, many things. I am a writer, a doctor, a nuclear physicist, a theoretical philosopher, but, above all, I am a man. A hopelessly inquisitive man, just like you. |
Officer Caroline Paski: | How certain are you that this was a male? |
Merrill Hess: | Oh, I don't know any girls who could run like that. |
Officer Caroline Paski: | I don't know, Merrill. I've seen some of those women on the Olympics. They can run like the wind. |
Merrill Hess: | This guy got on our roof in like a second. Our roof is ten feet high. |
Officer Caroline Paski: | They have women's high-jumping in the Olympics. They've got these Scandinavian women who could jump clean over me. |
Officer Caroline Paski: | So how are you, Merril? |
Morgan Hess: | Fine. |
Officer Caroline Paski: | How was work at the gas station? |
Merrill Hess: | Stimulating. |
Merrill Hess: | We both go outside, run around the house in opposite directions. We act crazy, make them crap in their pants, and force them around until we meet up on the other side. |
Graham Hess: | Explain 'act crazy'. |
Graham Hess: | We're gonna board up every window in this house. |
Merrill Hess: | How do we know boards will do anything? |
Graham Hess: | Because they seem to have trouble with pantry doors. |
Commodus: | A general who became a slave. A slave who became a gladiator. A gladiator who defied an emperor. |
Jack: | They could be twins |
Jack: | They could be twins. |
Kenoia: | It's me. |
Kenoia: | Koda? It's me. |
Kenoia: | Leave him alone! |
Rutt: | Hey. My name's Rutt. This is my brother Tuke. |
Tuke: | How's it goin', bear? |
Kenoia: | Don't call me that. |
Tuke: | Sorry, uh... Mr. Bear? |
Kenoia: | No! I mean, I'm not a bear! I hate bears! |
Koda: | Skinny, fat! Skinny, fat! |
Kenoia: | Hey, I've got a mountain to get to. Come on, kid. |
Koda: | I told you before, my name's Koda. Say it with me. Ko-da. |
Kenoia: | Are you sure your mom didn't ditch you, Ko-da? |
Koda: | Hmph. |
Roseanne Cash: | Hey, Daddy. |
Johnny Cash: | Hey, baby. |
Roseanne Cash: | Are you okay?. |
Roseanne Cash: | Are you okay? |
Johnny Cash: | Yeah!, I'm okay. I'm fine. I'll see you in the mornin'. |
Johnny Cash: | Yeah, I'm okay. I'm fine. I'll see you in the morning. |
Lucius Hunt: | Are you upset you can't see? |
Ivy Walker: | I see the world Lucius Hunt, not as you see it. |
Lucius Hunt: | Are you upset you can't see? |
Ivy Walker: | I see the world Lucius Hunt, not as you see it. |
Commodus: | Am I not merciful? AM I NOT MERCIFUL? |
Commodus: | Am I not merciful? [Lucilla turns her head] |
Commodus: | AM I NOT MERCIFUL? |
Johnny Cash: | Hello!, I'm Johnny Cash. |
Johnny Cash: | Hello, I'm Johnny Cash. |
Commodus: | it vexes me. I am extremely vexed |
Commodus: | It vexes me. I'm terribly vexed. |
Lucius Hunt: | There are different types of love. |
Commodus: | Your Emperor asks for your loyalty, Maximus. Take my hand, I only offer it once. |