97 Quotes by 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!

Biggest problem was I was terrible for commercials - I couldn't smile on cue.

Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling a product I didn't believe in.

Once you get into that street groove, the other side-the straight side-looks really scary.

I told them I was tired of being in the magazines, and how they made it sound like I love them and want girls so badly to buy them. I'm also doing a photo shoot in a couple of weeks - good honest pictures. They're going to print these pictures anyway, so they might as well be pictures of what I'm really like.

It still strikes me as strange that anyone can have any moral objection to someone else's sexuality. It's like telling someone else how to clean their house.

It makes you realize drugs aren't just done by bad guys and sleazebags; it's a universal disease.

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.

I'm just a normal guy doing a job!