River Phoenix Quotes


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The Quotable River Phoenix
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River Phoenix's Famous Lines
Replace this image with a character photoMovie/TV title: Stand by me
Character name: Chris Chambers
Quote(s): "I just wish that I could go some place where no-body knows me".
Replace this image with a character photoMovie/TV title: Mosquito Coast
Character name: Charlie Fox
Quote(s): "Once I had believed in father and the world had seemed small and old. Now he is gone and I wasn't afraid to love him no any more. And the world seemed limitless."
Replace this image with a character photoMovie/TV title: Little Nikita
Character name: Jeff Grant
Quote(s): "What's my name? Come on dad, what could the head of the grandfamily have to hide from his first and oldest and only son?
Replace this image with a character photoMovie/TV title: I Love You To Death
Character name: Devo Nod
Quote(s): For killing him five, for wounding him two.
Replace this image with a character photoMovie/TV title: My Own Private Idaho
Character name: Mike Waters
Quote(s): If I had a normal family, and a good upbringing, then I would have been a well-adjusted person.

River Phoenix Quotes
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  • 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.

  • "I want kids, a family of my own. I'd like to give them the first eight years of their lives in the country. Then I'd want them educated, which I wasn't formally, although I had a tutor once when I was twelve. At times I miss a formal education, but at others I thank God for everything else I have now. What I have got from my childhood aren't toys, but memories. And happy memories are better than any toy.

  • It's not about career. It's about believing in something, it's about prosperity. And it's about caring and empathizing and wanting to create the best, the most true to life, the most real.

  • I've been wanting to go into music ever since I can remember. I mean even before I became an actor. I just thought is would be a tough field to break into, so I became an actor instead.

  • If I have some celebrity, I hope I can use it to make a difference. The true social reward is that I can speak my mind and share my thoughts about the environment and civilisation itself.
  • I wish sometimes that I wasn't as conscious as I am.
  • I really like acting because you can create a character. You can make someone who has never existed before. That's neat.
  • Animals are not our playthings. We are on this earth to protect them. It's our duty.

Quotes About River Phoenix
  • Who said/wrote it: Keanu Reeves
  • Quote:You can't blame Hollywood for what happened to River. Kids are doing drugs everywhere in the world. He had his own very personal problems I will never discuss with the press. They're just way too personal. River had a self-destructive side to his personality. He was angry and hurt that he couldn't have a private life once he became famous. He just couldn't deal with having his private life on the front page all the time.

  • Who said/wrote it: Michael Stipe, R.E.M.
  • Quote:He was my brother and I loved him a great deal. It was just an awful, awful mistake. We fed off each other and learned a lot from each other.

Who said/wrote it: Joaquin Phoenix
  • Quote: My brother was a magnificent person and an outstanding actor.:
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