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By laurchid

[rivjudephoenix]

“He was crazy about her right away. He was anxious to have a lot of kissing scenes. He was saying, ‘In the lovemaking scene, can we really do it? Can you just put us in there and close the door and let us go?’ He was only half-kidding.” To the amusement of the other actors and crew, a visibly shy and nervous Phoenix started to woo Mathis with a boyish clumsiness, […] telling friends “his head was going to pop off if he didn’t get to hold her hand”

— Cosmopolitan, April 1995

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River Phoenix for Rolling Stone | Ph.: Diego Uchitel

[standbyphoenix]

“[…] River began tutoring his younger brother about cinema. “My brother came home and he was like, ‘We need to watch this movie called Raging Bull.’ And I’m like, ‘What?’ Prior to that, I watched Caddyshack and Spaceballs. And Woody Allen comedies.” 

Not long after, he recalls his brother making a strange prediction. “He suggested I change my name [back to Joaquin] and then, I don’t know, six months later, whatever it was, we were in Florida, we were in the kitchen, and he said, ‘You’re going to be an actor and you’re going to be more well known than I am.’ Me and my mom looked at each other like, ‘What the fuck is he talking about?’

“I don’t know why he said that or what he knew of me at the time. I hadn’t been acting at all. But he also said it with a certain weight, with a knowing that seemed so absurd to me at the time, but of course now, in hindsight, you’re like, ‘How the fuck did he know?’ ”

— Joaquin Phoenix for Vanity Fair, October 2019. 

[rivjudephoenix]

“I love thinking and writing and researching stuff, going to the library and looking at microfilm. Environmental concerns are top on my list. If we don’t heal the earth, we’re gone” 

— River, 1988

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River photographed by Gus Van Sant

[cinematographey]

“I love you and you don’t pay me”

My Own Private Idaho (1991) dir. Gus Van Sant

[bills-skarsgards]

I’m a connoisseur of roads. I’ve been tasting roads my whole life. This road will never end. It probably goes all around the world.

MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO (1991) dir. Gus Van Sant

[rivjudephoenix]

“At first he looked like a ‘cool guy’ and I didn’t think that we would get along. It’s difficult for me to be understood by people, and to become intimate with them. I’m glad Keanu likes me” — River Phoenix

[rivjudephoenix]

River photographed after an Aleka’s Attic show

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Rare photo of River playing an Aleka’s Attic show at the 9:30 Club in Washington D.C, February 16th, 1991 [x]

[slyrivers]

Joaquin Phoenix ends his speech by quoting his late brother River Phoenix.

"Run to the rescue with love and peace will follow."

[cristinaricci]

I understand.

Do you?

Yes. I know how you feel.

I think I fall in love.

My Own Private Idaho (1991) dir. Gus Van Sant

[mikeywatrs]

mike  waters  +  wardrobe  (  close  up  )

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My Own Private Idaho (1991) dir. Gus Vant Sant

[veelyra]

river phoenix and keanu reeves

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