"Fame is what gets people to go watch your film. I'm just glad to be in a film i believe in. And if it take's fame to get people there, then it's my job. But i'd rather be a ghost writer than have my name down."
React to this quote
More by River Phoenix
See allResonant Thoughts
"Same thing happened in the punk movement in the late 70's...a punk band would start, play one gig, and get signed to a major label right away, 'cause it a trend. That just shows there are a lot of old…"
"Never in world history has a new worldview—and socialism is such a thing—triumphed in capitulation, always only in resistance, in attack. In 1918 there was only one task for the German socialist: to k…"
Explore Further
Related Quotes
"What agents would choose in certain well- defined conditions of ignorance is, for Rawls, an important crite…"
— Raymond Geuss"I’ve lapped so long. As you said. It fair takes. If I lose my breath for a minute or two don’t speak, remem…"
— James Joyce"The biggest problems were to do with... well, to get that successful when you're so young, it attracts hang…"
— Mike Oldfield"A real reconciliation of East and West is impossible and inconceivable on the basis of a materialistic Comm…"
— Nikolai Berdyaev"We are fighting to impose a higher social justice. The others are fighting to maintain the privileges of ca…"
— Benito Mussolini"Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance — these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live on…"
— Isaiah Berlin
