Riley [on her first day at her new school]
My name is Riley Andersen, I'm from Minnesota and now I live here.
Voiced by Kaitlyn Dias 
Inside Out (2015) · 91 quotes
Inside Out (2015) · 91 quotes
7th most-quoted character in Inside Out (2015): in 11 of its 91 quotes
Most scenes with: Joy (6), Sadness (5), Disgust (4)
I know you don't want me to, but... I miss home. I miss Minnesota. You need me to be happy, but... I want my old friends and my hockey team. I want to go home.
More lines from Riley
3 quotes Riley Riley What is your problem?! Just leave me alone!
Riley Just SHUT UP!
Scenes with Riley
7 scenes[Little Riley is seated at the table with her parents. Her dad is about to give her broccoli]
Here we go, all right, open.
Hm, this looks new.
Think it's safe?
What is it?
Aah... [inches the broccoli towards Riley]
[enters the screen]
Okay, caution! There is a dangerous smell, people... [notices the broccoli] Hold on, what is that?
Joy [narrating]: This is Disgust. She basically keeps Riley from being poisoned, physically and socially.
That is not brightly colored or shaped like a dinosaur. Hold on, guys... It's BROCCOLI! [gags and presses a button]
Little Riley Yucky! [flips the bowl of broccoli, getting some on her dad's face, and adding a disgusting memory]
[proudly]
Well, I just saved our lives. [the other three sigh in relief] Yeah, you're welcome.
Riley, if you don't eat your dinner, you're not going to get any dessert.
[looks up from his newspaper titled "The Mind Reader", the headlines saying "NO DESSERT!"]
Wait, did he just say we couldn't have dessert? [puts the paper down and begins stomping towards the console]
Joy [narrating]: That's Anger. He... cares very deeply about things being fair.
So that's how you want to play it, old man?! No dessert?! [the top of his head begins to glow with embers] Oh sure, we'll eat our dinner, right after YOU EAT THIS! [pushes a couple levers and screams while his head erupts like Hades from Hercules, making Little Riley scream and throw a tantrum and adding an angry memory]
Riley, Riley! Here comes an airplane! [imitates airplane, bringing the broccoli closer to her as she calms down]
AAAAH...! [instantly calms down] Oh, airplane. We've got an airplane, everybody.
Emotions Oooooohh... [They all gather around and watch the "airplane", and Riley happily eats it, adding a happy memory]
And you met Sadness. She... Well she...
[Riley and her parents are playing in their new house when Riley's Dad's cellphone suddenly rings]
Ah, sorry. Hold on. [puts down Riley and Jill and answers his cellphone] Hello?
You're kidding. Ah, stall for me. I'll be right there. The investors were suppose to show up on Thursday, not today! [to Jill] I gotta go.
It's okay. We get it.
You're the best. Thanks, hon. [briefly kisses her and waves good-bye to Riley] See you, sweetie. [walks out the door, leaving Riley visibly upset]
Dad just... left us.
Oh, he doesn't love us anymore. That's sad. I-I should drive, right? [reaches to touch the console, but Joy suddenly stops her with her arm; the other emotions (including Sadness) look at her in shock, much to Fear's own] Joy, what are you doing?
[nervously]
Uh, just give me one second. You know what I realized? [grabs a recent happy memory and puts it on the projector] Riley hasn't had lunch! Remember? [The memory of Riley seeing a pizza parlor earlier plays in her mind]
Riley [brightening herself up]
Hey, I saw a pizza place down the street. Maybe we could try that.
Pizza sounds delicious!
Pizza!
Yes, pizza!
[Riley and Jill go to the pizza parlor and Jill holds out her credit card to the cashier - only to find that they're only serving broccoli-topped pizza]
What the heck is that!
Who puts broccoli on pizza!
That's it. I'm done. [walks off, leaving Joy, Sadness, Anger and Fear]
[Sarcastically]
Congratulations, San Francisco! You've ruined pizza! First the Hawaiians, and now you!
What kind of a pizza place only serves one kind of pizza. Must be a San Francisco thing, huh? Still, it’d not bad as that soup. At that diner in Nebraska.
Riley Oh, yeah. The spoon stood up in the soup by itself.
[Joy and Sadness meet the Memory Workers, who are in charge of dumping out memory orbs that are faded into the Memory Dump.]
Hey! Bring those back!
Worker Paula
They're in the dump. Nothing comes back from the dump.
Worker Bobby
Yeah. Look, lady, this is our job, okay?
Worker Paula
When Riley doesn't care about a memory, it fades.
Fades?
Worker Paula
Happens to the best of them.
Worker Bobby
[grabs a happy memory]
Yeah, except for this bad boy. This one will never fade. [the aforementioned memory contains the annoying TripleDent Gum jingle]
TripleDent Gum will make you smile...
Worker Bobby
You know, sometimes we send that one up to Headquarters for no reason!
Worker Paula
It just plays in Riley's head over and over again, like a million times! [Joy is visibly annoyed at this]
Worker Bobby
Let's watch it again! [he rewinds the memory, and the Memory Workers sing along to the jingle] TripleDent Gum will make you smile...
Yeah, I know. We all know the song. OK, yeah, real catchy, OK.
Worker Bobby
Hey, what do you think? Should we do it?
Worker Paula
Yeah!
Worker Bobby
[he shoves the memory orb into the shelf and shoots it up a pipe to Headquarters.]
Okay, here we go!
[Fear is drinking coffee, Disgust is doing her nails and Anger is reading a newspaper with the headline reading "GOLDEN STATE BLUE MOOD" in HQ. The jingle pops up.]
TripleDent Gum will make you smile...
[to the workers, who are walking away singing]
Wait! Do you know how to get to Friendship Island?!
Riley [while using a laptop to talk to Meg]
TripleDent Gum...
Meg
You like it there. Do you feel any Earthquake. It’s the bridges cool.
Riley Yeah, it’s good. What happened with the playoff.
Meg
We’re on the first game. Coach says we might actually go to the finals this year. Oh, and we’ve got this new girl on the team. She’s so cool.
Uh, she did not just say that.
A new girl?! Meg has a new friend already?
Meg
We can pass the puck to each other without even looking. It’s like mind reading.
You like to read minds, Meg?! I’ve got something for you to read, right here! [grabbing the controls]
No, no, no. What are you doing?
Wait, wait, wait! Let’s just be calm for one second…!
Meg
[Anger grabs Fear by the nose and then throws him out of the console, then pulls the levers on the console as his head catches fire while screaming angrily]
I heard they have parrots living in-
Riley I gotta go.
Meg
What?
Riley [angrily]
I gotta go! [closes her laptop]
Okay, could you please just please tell me which way is... Oh, no! Friendship Island! What! Oh, not Friendship.
Oh, Riley loved that one. And now it’s gone.
[Riley storms off fumingly from the ice hockey rink after botching a fumbling shot]
Riley, what's wrong?
Riley Let's go!
You're not going to finish tryouts?!
Riley What's the point?
Hey, it will be all right. Let's just--
Riley Stop saying everything will be all right!
[As Riley storms off, back in Mind World, Hockey Island collapses and falls into the Memory Dump]
Hockey!? Oh, no, no, she loves hockey. She can’t give up hockey. Bing Bong, we have to get to that station.
Sure thing. This way, just past Graham Cracker Castle. Hey, that’s weird. Graham Cracker Castle used to be right here. I wonder why they moved. Well, that's... odd. I would have sworn Sparkle Pony Mountain was right here. Hey, What’s going on.
Yeah, yeah. I don’t know. We’ll have to come back.
Princess Dream World! Oh, no. The stuffed Animal Hall of Fame! My rocket! Wait! Riley and I, we’re still using the that rocket! It still has some song power left! [Starts chanting] Who’s your friend who likes to play? [Stops chanting] No! No, no, no. NO, You can’t take my rocket to the dump! Riley and I are going to the moon! Riley can’t be done with me. [Sits down]
[Pauses]
Hey, it’s going to be okay! We can fix this! We just need to get back to Headquarters. Which way to the train station?
I had a whole trip planned for us.
[gasps]
Hey, who’s ticklish, huh? Here comes the tickle monster! Hey, Bing Bong! Look at this! Oh, here’s a fun game! You point to the train station and we all go there. Won’t that be fun? Come on, Let’s go to the train station.
I’m sorry they took your rocket. They took something that you loved. It's gone. Forever.
Sadness. Don't make him feel worse.
Sorry.
It's all I had left of Riley.
[Joy and Bing Bong have fallen into the Memory Dump and are stuck down there, doomed to be forgotten forever. All hope seemed lost, and as a matter of minutes, a lot of memories tend to cease forever. Even Joy and Bing Bong will cease forever. Joy tries fruitlessly to climb up the piles of old memories to get out.]
Joy? Joy, what are you doing? Would ya stop it, please? [Joy ignores his please and keeps trying to get out, once again, to no avail.] Don't ya get it, Joy?! We're stuck down here! We're forgotten.
Riley [Joy pauses to realize her situation. Joy starts to lose hope, and even Bing Bong loses hope. In the background, the discarded sad core memory of Riley breaking down into tears on her first day at school begins to play] [in the memory orb]
We... used to play tag... and stuff... [Joy walks over to the memory, and holds it somberly] But... everything is different now. Since we moved... [The memory keeps playing the "video" of Riley's emotional breakdown at school. Joy keeps staring at the memory orb, in complete helpless despair. She sits down and begins to stifle tears. The sound of a discarded memory of Riley happily coloring as a toddler begins to play next to Joy, who picks it up and looks at it with a sad smile.]
[tearing up]
Do you remember how she used to stick her tongue out when she was coloring? [continues to fight back tears as she picks up another memory orb, this time of a younger Riley telling a story to her parents] I could listen to her stories, all day... [picks up another memory of Riley playing in her backyard as a toddler; her eyes well up with tears, but she keeps holding back] I just wanted Riley to be happy... [unable to hold back her tears anymore, she picks up the sad core memory of Riley crying in school] And now... [as she looks at it, she begins to sob, and completely breaks down into hopeless tears while Bing Bong sadly looks on. Joy hugs all the three forgotten memories and the blue core memory of Riley crying in front of the whole class until they all fall out of Joy’s arms and she covers her face while sobbing. Joy has lost everything. Around her, memories fade and disappear. When Joy wipes her tears from off her face, Joy's tears fall onto the happy memory orb of Riley after the Prairie Dog hockey game. As Joy wipes the tear off of it, she scrolls through the memory to see it was previously a sad memory turned happy. The sad portion consists of Riley sitting sadly with her parents on a tree branch. Curiously, Joy "rewinds" the memory to the point where Mom and Dad came to Riley to comfort her. Joy begins to hear Sadness's description of the memory in her head.]
[voice-over]
It was the day the Prairie Dogs lost the big playoff game. Riley missed the winning shot, she felt awful. She wanted to quit.
[scrolls through the memory to see the blue sad memory of her and her parents turn a happy yellow when Riley's friends come to cheer her on]
Sadness... Mom and Dad... The team. They came to help... because of Sadness. [to Bing Bong] We have to get back up there.
Joy, we're stuck down here. We might as well be on another planet.
[getting an idea]
"Another planet". [turns and calls out in a sing-song voice] Who's your friend who likes to play? [silence, Bing Bong looks up in surprise] Who's your friend who likes to play?!
[Bing Bong's wagon rocket makes its signature tune in the distance. Encouraged, Joy and Bing Bong rush to find it as Bing Bong keeps singing]
Hop in.
Riley [crying and admitting to her parents that she misses the good old days in Minnesota]
I know you don't want me to, but... I miss home. I miss Minnesota. You need me to be happy, but I want my old friends and my hockey team... I wanna go home. Please don't be mad...
Oh, sweetie...
We're not mad. You know what? I miss Minnesota too. I miss the woods, where we took hikes.
And the backyard, where you used to play.
Spring Lake, where you learned to skate. [Riley continues crying] Come here. [he and Jill hug Riley and comfort her]