River Phoenix Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 23, 1970 - October 31, 1993

Topics

MusicToughThoughtRememberI Can

I trained as a ballet dancer till I was 18, so I would really like to get back to it. I'd love it if there was a part that meant I could do both acting and ballet, as they're both so close to my heart.

Jessica Brown Findlay

LoveHeartBackActingGetWould

You get into sports with the idea that you want to win. If you aren't trying to win, what's the point in being involved?

Jerry Reinsdorf

SportsWinTryingYouWantPoint

I have gone through so many examinations of what a hero is, between the World War II stuff and the astronaut stuff.

Tom Hanks

HeroWarWorldWorld War IIGone

I don't know about an awful lot of stuff. I'm not educated. I left school when I was 16, with no qualifications. The thing that I do know about is my feelings and what I think of the world and what I think of me.

Robbie Williams

SchoolMeWorldThinkFeelingsKnow

People sometimes ask me to name the greatest coach in NFL history. George Halas may have set the standard, but Don Shula has won more games than anyone, and he has done it in the most competitive era. He had an incomparable ability to evaluate players, to motivate them, and to teach them the game of football.

Marv Levy

HistoryFootballPeopleMeGame

You have to want to play it all day, every day to get to the top.

Monica Seles

DayYouEvery DayPlayWantTop

In the '90s, guitar solos were dead.

Chris Daughtry

GuitarDeadWereGuitar SolosSolos

It really matters to writers to find and treasure readers, all the more when they're on the other side of the world.

Colm Toibin

WorldFindTreasureMattersMore

I don't know what I would have done without acting. I officially fell into it around age 6 in a class play that reimagined 'The Ugly Duckling.' My joy in performing was so boundless, you would have thought I'd just won a Tony.

Ari Graynor

AgeJoyUglyThoughtYouActing

I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.

Anne Stevenson

MarriageMyselfPoetryBookTragedy

I like to work. I'm glad; I'm privileged to have work.

William Hurt

WorkLikeGladPrivileged

I think that at the start of a game, you're always playing to win, and then maybe if you're ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

Tom Brady

WinStartGameThinkYouLose

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