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River Phoenix movie quotes

29 quotes from 3 movies

Stand by Me (1986) as Chris

View Quote Gordie: Mickey's a mouse, Donald's a duck, Pluto's a dog. What's Goofy?
Teddy: He's a dog, he's definitely a dog...
Chris: He can't be a dog, he wears a hat and drives a car...
Vern: Yeah, that is weird. What the hell is Goofy?
View Quote Gordie: Do you think I'm weird?
Chris: Definitely.
Gordie: No man, seriously. Am I weird?
Chris: Yeah, but so what? Everybody's weird.
View Quote Teddy: I'm sorry if I'm spoiling everybody's good time.
Chris: It's okay, man.
Gordie: Maybe it shouldn't be a good time.
Chris: You saying you wanna go back?
Gordie: No. We're going to see a dead kid; maybe it shouldn't be a party.
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My Own Private Idaho (1991) as Mike Waters

View Quote There's not another road anywhere that looks like this road, I mean exactly like this road. It's one kind of place, one of a kind. Like someone's face. Like a ****-up face.
View Quote 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.
View Quote I always know where I am by the way the road looks. Like, I just know that I've been here before, I just know that I've been stuck here like this one **** time before, you know that? yeah.
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Sneakers (1992) as Carl

View Quote [Carl and Whistler try out Jannek's black box and they surprisingly break into some secure mainframes]
Liz: [upon seeing the data for the Air Traffic Control System] Oh, my God.
Mother: How is this possible?
Whistler: Cryptography systems are based on mathematical problems so complex they cannot be solved without a key.
Liz: Jannek figured out a way to solve those problems without the key and he hard-wired it into that chip.
Martin Bishop: Turn it off.
Whistler: Want to crash some passenger jets?
Bishop: I said turn it off. Turn it off. [shuts down computer]
Carl: [contemplates] So, it's a code-breaker.
Bishop: No, it's The code-breaker. No more secrets. [leaves]
View Quote Bishop: Carl?
Carl: [to Bernard Abbot] The, uh, young lady with the Uzi, is she single?
Bishop: Uh, you know, Carl. [sets Carl aside] Carl, this is the brass ring. Now you've got to think bigger thoughts.
Carl: I just want her telephone number, that's all. Please?
Bishop: Hey Abby, how about a lunch? You can chaperon.
Bernard Abbot: No, I will not do this. [Male NSA agents smirk]
Bishop: Hey, Abby, Abby, come on, now the FBI'd give him twins-
Abbot: NO!
NSA Agent Mary: Wait a second. You can have anything you want, and you're asking for my phone number?
Carl: Yes.
NSA Agent Mary: 273-9164. Area code 415.
Carl: Thanks. I'm Carl. [offers hand]
NSA Agent Mary: [smiles while shaking Carl's hand] I'm Mary.
Abbot: I'm going to be sick. Are we done here?
Bishop: Not yet. Whistler?
Whistler: I want peace on earth and good will toward man.
Abbot: Oh, this is ridiculous.
Bishop: He's serious.
Whistler: I want peace on earth and goodwill toward men.
Abbot: We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Bishop: You're just gonna have to try.
Abbot: All right, I'll see what I can do.
Whistler: Thank you very much. That's all I ask.
View Quote [asking each team member what they'll do with their share of the money]
Bishop: Carl?
Carl: [breathing from helium] I'd like to have a deep relationship with a beautiful woman who melts from the very first time our eyes meet.
Bishop: We're not getting paid that much, Carl.
Carl: Well, you know, someone like Liz.
Bishop: We're definitely not getting paid that much.
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