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River Phoenix Quotes
«I would rather quit while I was ahead. There's no need in overstaying your welcome.»
Author: River Phoenix
«I would never, never do anything unless I believed in it.»
Author: 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.»
Author: 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.»
Author: River Phoenix
«Once you get into that street groove, the other side-the straight side-looks really scary.»
Author: 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.»
Author: 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.»
Author: River Phoenix
«I'm just a normal guy doing a job!»
Author: 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!»
Author: River Phoenix
«Music is a whole oasis in my head. The creation process is so personal and fulfilling.»
Author: River Phoenix