Joaquin Phoenix movie quotes

View Quote [The TV news plays a Brazilian video, purporting to have a sighting, in which a bunch of Brazillian children excitedly block the view] Move, children! Vamanos! (the corpse like alien passes through a hedge gape a few feet away from the camera) Oh!!

View Quote [The family is watching a news report about strange hovering lights in the sky] The nerds were right. It's like War of the Worlds.

View Quote [Deleted scene: Merrill stands on a chair, struggling to hold the attic door shut from underneath as an alien tries to enter] This is a very temporary solution!

View Quote Dance with the devil and the devil don't change, the devil changes you.

View Quote There are some things that you see, and you can't unsee them. Know what I mean?

View Quote I can hook you up, though. You name the vice I name the price.

View Quote Never try to milk a caribou.

View Quote But... [sighs] Denahi...

View Quote Keep all that cuddly bear stuff to a minimum, okay, kid?

View Quote [to Thomas Wayne] I know it seems strange, I don't mean to make you uncomfortable, I don't know why everyone is so rude, I don't know why you are; I don't want anything from you. Maybe a little warmth, maybe a hug, “Dad“, maybe just a bit of common **** decency!

View Quote [to Penny Fleck] You know, you used to tell me...that my laugh was a condition. That there was something wrong with me. There isn’t. That’s the real me.

View Quote You don't listen, do you? You just ask the same questions every week. "How's your job?" "Are you having negative thoughts?" All I have are negative thoughts.

View Quote They say your son squealed like a girl, as they nailed him to the cross. And your wife moaned like a whore when they ravaged her. Again. And again. And again.

View Quote One kind word, one full hug while you pressed me to your chest and held me tight, would have been like the sun on my heart for a thousand years. What is it in me you hate so much? All I ever wanted was to live up to you, Caesar, Father. Father, I would butcher the whole world if you would only love me..

View Quote Am I not merciful? [loses patience] Am I not merciful?!

View Quote There are different types of love.

View Quote Ivy Walker: How is it that you are so brave while the rest of us shake in our boots?
Lucius Hunt: I don't think of what might happen, only what must be done.

View Quote Alice Hunt: And what makes you think that he has feelings for me?
Lucius Hunt: The way he never touches you.

View Quote I am destined for greatness, but those in power only see me as a sword.

View Quote I am the first to admit when I make a mistake. I simply never do.

View Quote I must warn you. I will not lead a second in command. I will win by fire.

View Quote Sometimes I think I have felt everything I'm ever gonna feel. And from here on out, I'm not gonna feel anything new. Just lesser versions of what I've already felt.

View Quote She's not just a computer.

View Quote I feel like I can be anything with you.

View Quote "C'est la vie" — Que se-**** sera sera.

View Quote Doc Sportello: How would I forget something like that?
Deputy D.A. Penny Kimball: Grass. And who knows what else?
Doc Sportello: I'm only a light smoker.
Deputy D.A. Penny Kimball: How many joints have you had today?
Doc Sportello: I have to check the logbook.

View Quote Shasta Fay Hepworth: It isn't what you're thinking, Doc.
Doc Sportello: Don't worry. Thinking comes later. What else?

View Quote [Latched onto a frantic man while hanging from a rope] Calm down! Sir - you need to calm down! I swear to God I'll drop you!

View Quote You know, Mike asked me tonight if I loved the job like I did before, and for the first time in my life, I didn't know what to say.

View Quote Tell Linda I love her... That I've loved her from the second I saw her.

View Quote [to Clark] I was on a ship that got 13 battle stars and won the war. What'd you do, dummy?

View Quote Lancaster Dodd: [Lancaster and Freddie have been imprisoned in two separate cells, sharing a wall] Your fear of capture and imprisonment is an implant from millions of years ago. This battle has been with you from before you know. This is not you.
Freddie Quell: SHUT THE **** UP!
Lancaster Dodd: It's not you.
Freddie Quell: SHUT. THE ****. UP!
Lancaster Dodd: It's not you. You are asleep. Your spirit was free. Moving from body, to the next body. Free. Free for a moment. Then it was captured by an invader force, bent on turning you to the darkest way, you've been implanted with a push-pull mechanism that keeps you fearful of authority and destructive. We are in the middle of a battle that's a trillion years in the making and it's bigger than the both of us!
Freddie Quell: You're making this shit up! You make this shit up! You don't know what you're talking about!
Lancaster Dodd: I don't know what I'm talking about?
Freddie Quell: No, you don't.
Lancaster Dodd: I give you facts.
Freddie Quell: You don't give me facts!
Lancaster Dodd: They are not opinions.
Freddie Quell: What facts?! What facts?!
Lancaster Dodd: They are **** facts!
Freddie Quell: What facts?! What facts?!
Lancaster Dodd: **** you!
Freddie Quell: **** you! **** you!
Lancaster Dodd: **** you! **** you! Why don't you kick the bed some more?!
Freddie Quell: **** you!
Lancaster Dodd: **** you, you lazy ass piece of shit!
Freddie Quell: **** you! **** you! I'm not lazy!
Lancaster Dodd: I'm done! You're **** lazy!
Freddie Quell: Oh, you make shit up!
Lancaster Dodd: You're ****in' lazy!
Freddie Quell: Your **** family hates you! Your son hates you!
Lancaster Dodd: Oh, they do?!
Freddie Quell: Yeah! Your son hates you!
Lancaster Dodd: Who **** likes you except for me?!
Freddie Quell: Nobody!
Lancaster Dodd: Except for me!
Freddie Quell: No, you don't **** like me!
Lancaster Dodd: Who likes you except for me?!
[Freddie aggressively kicks the prison cell]
Prisoner: [sitting in a cell behind, to Freddie and Lancaster] Shut up!
Lancaster Dodd: [to Freddie] Except for me?!
Freddie Quell: [to the prisoner] You, shut up!
Lancaster Dodd: I'm the only one who likes you.
Freddie Quell: [to the prisoner] **** you!
Prisoner: **** you!
Freddie Quell: Yeah, **** you, too!
Prisoner: **** you!
Freddie Quell: [to Lancaster] **** you!
Lancaster Dodd: Just me, Freddie.
Freddie Quell: Just you?!
Lancaster Dodd: I'm the only one that likes you. [pause] The only one. [pause] You're a **** drunk. And I'm done with you. ****...

View Quote Lancaster Dodd: Why aren't you with her?
Freddie Quell: I'm an idiot.
Lancaster Dodd: Why aren't you with the lovely girl?
Freddie Quell: I got no reason. I'm a fool.
Lancaster Dodd: Do you love Doris?
Freddie Quell: Yes.
Lancaster Dodd: Is she the love of your life?
Freddie Quell: Yes, sir.
Lancaster Dodd: Then why aren't you with her?
Freddie Quell: I don't know.
Lancaster Dodd: Yes you do. Tell me why you are not with her if you love her so much.
Freddie Quell: I told her I'd come back and I never went back and now I just... I gotta get back to her.
Lancaster Dodd: Why don't you go back?
Freddie Quell: I don't know.
Lancaster Dodd: Why don't you--
Freddie Quell: I DON'T KNOW!
Lancaster Dodd: Close your eyes.

View Quote [Sitting before courtroom jury] I wanted to come out here as Joker. I was gonna go on an... a angry rant. And blame all of you, and everyone, for this **** miserable life. But it wouldn't matter anymore, because I can't do this anymore. 'Cause I can't be who you want me to be. It was all just a fantasy. There is no Joker. It's just me. I killed 6 people. I wish I didn't but I did. Nobody knows, but I also killed my mother. I put a pillow over her face and smothered her to death. I just wanna... I just wanna blow it all up, and start a new life. [Harleen gets up and walks out with several spectators following] Knock knock. Who's there? Arthur Fleck. Arthur Fleck who?

View Quote [Singing to Harleen in a fantasy musical theatre production, kneeling on stage clutching abdomen] When... when I build that mountain, as I will someday, and the Lord sends Gabriel to take me away, I want a fine son to take my place, [scene cuts to prison hallway with his attacker watching while laughing] I'll leave a son in my heaven on Earth. With the good Lord's... [Arthur falls against wall] ...grace.

View Quote Inmate: [In hallway] Hey. Arthur. Hold up. [Walks up to Arthur] Can I tell you a joke I came up with?
Arthur Fleck: [Looks behind back then at inmate] Is it quick?
Inmate: Yeah, I can make it quick.
Arthur: Okay.
Inmate: So, an psychopath walks into a bar, and sees this famous clown sitting there all alone. Totally drunk, it's pathetic. "I can't believe you're here", he says. "What a disappointment, I used to watch you on TV. What can I get you?" And this clown turns and says; "Well, if you're buying, you can get me anything."
[Arthur smirks.]
Inmate: "Perfect", the psychopath says. "How about I get you what you **** deserve?"
[Proceeds to repeatedly stab Arthur in the abdomen against a wall, then walks aside to watch Arthur die.]