It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have any moral objection to someone else's sexuality. It's like telling someone else how to clean th…

- River Phoenix

What I have got from my childhood aren't toys, but memories. And happy memories are better than any toy.

- River Phoenix

Although I can't stop all cruelty to living creatures on the planet, I can be kinder to every living creature in my life.

- 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…

- River Phoenix

I would never, never do anything unless I believed in it.

- River Phoenix

Sometimes I wish I wasn't as conscious as I am. It would be so much easier.

- 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 j…

- River Phoenix

In simplicity there is truth.

- River Phoenix

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.

- River Phoenix