Joy [from the trailer]
Come on, group hug! You too, Anger!
Voiced by Amy Poehler 
Inside Out (2015) · 91 quotes
Inside Out (2015) · 91 quotes
Most-quoted character in Inside Out (2015): in 31 of its 91 quotes
Most scenes with: Sadness (10), Disgust (7), Fear (7)
All right everyone, fresh start! We're gonna have a good day, which will turn into a good week, which will turn into a good year, which will turn into a good life!
More lines from Joy
16 quotes Joy Joy [dancing, from the Force Awakens trailer]
I'm doing the happy dance, I'm not wearing any pants!
Joy [first lines]
Do you ever look at someone and wonder, "what is going on inside their head?" Well, I know. I know Riley's head.
Joy [narrating]
It was amazing! Just Riley and me, forever.
Joy [looking at a broccoli about to be feed to toddler Riley; confused]
Hmm. This looks new.
Joy [narrating]
These are Riley's memories, and they're mostly happy if you notice. Not to brag.
Joy And each core memory powers a different aspect of Riley's personality. Like Hockey Island! Goofball Island is my personal favorite. Yep, Goofball is the best.
Joy [to Sadness, after stopping her from touching one of the core memories]
Sadness, you nearly touched a core memory, and when you touch them, we can't change them back!
Joy First day of school! Very, very exciting!
Joy [to Sadness]
Atta girl!
Joy [laughing, about Riley's teacher]
She's hilarious! [turns a control]
Joy [to Sadness]
Think positive!
Joy [when trying to get out of The Dump, Joy looks at the blue Core Memory and looks at a forgotten memory]
You remember how she used to stick her tongue out when she was coloring? [picks another forgotten memory up and looks at it] I could listen to her stories all day. [picks up a third one] I just wanted Riley to be happy... [holding the three forgotten memories and the blue Core Memory, she breaks down into tears]
Joy Sadness... Mom and Dad... the team. They came to help... because of Sadness.
Joy I'll try, Bing-Bong. I promise.
Joy [looking over the Memory Dump she's about to fall toward, confused and shamed]
This is crazy, this is crazy... No, Joy, be positive... I am POSITIVE this is crazy!
Scenes with Joy
14 scenes Joy [narrating]
And that was just the beginning. Headquarters only got more crowded from there.
[Little Riley is seated at the table with her parents. Her dad is about to give her broccoli]
Here we go, all right, open.
Joy 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]
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]
Joy And you met Sadness. She... Well she...
Joy [narrating]: And that’s it. We love our girl. She’s got great friends and a great house... things couldn’t be better. After all, Riley’s 11 now. What could happen? [Cuts to outside the house; a SOLD sign is implanted into the ground] What?
Anger, Fear, Sadness and Disgust
AAAAH! [moving truck shuts] AAAAH! [truck drives away]
Joy Okay, not what I had in mind. [Other emotions scream, much to Sadness' great surprise]
Anger, Fear, Sadness and Disgust
AAAAAHHH!!
[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?
Joy [disappointed]
Wait, what?
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?
Joy [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]
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!
Joy 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.
Oh, yeah. The spoon stood up in the soup by itself.
Joy Hello! Did I wake you?
Do you have to play that?
Joy Well, I have to practice. And I don’t think of it as playing so much as hugging. Okay! First day of school! Very, very exciting! I was up late last night figuring out a new plan. Here it is! Fear! [Fear gasps] I need a list of all the possible negative outcomes on the first day at a new school.
Way ahead of you there. [to the other emotions] Does anyone know how to spell 'meteor'?
Joy Disgust, make sure Riley stands out today. But also blends in.
[confidently]
When I'm through, Riley will look so good, the other kids will look at their own outfits and barf.
Joy [talking to herself]
Joy. "Yes, Joy?" You'll be in charge of the console, keeping Riley happy all day long. And may I add I love your dress. It's adorable... "Oh, this old thing? Thank you so much. I love the way it twirls." [Joy runs up to the window and waves at the Train of Thought as it passes through, in normal voice again] Train of Thought! Right on schedule! Anger, unload the daydreams. I ordered extra in case things get slow in class.
Might come in handy, if this new school is full of boring, useless classes. Which it probably will be.
Joy Oh, Sadness! I have a super important job just for you.
Joy Mmm-hmm. Follow me. [leads Sadness to the Mind Manual shelf and starts to draw a circle around her feet]
What are you doing?
Joy [finishes up]
And... there! Perfect! This is the Circle of Sadness. Your job is to make sure that all the sadness stays inside of it.
So...you want me to just stand here?
Joy Hey, it's not my place to tell you how you do your job. [Closeup of Sadness's feet. Joy pushes Sadness's leg inside of the circle] Just make sure that all the sadness stays in the circle. See? You're pro with this. Isn't this fun?
No.
Joy That-a-girl! All right, everyone, fresh start.
Joy [Joy and Sadness accidentally get sent to Long-Term Memory, much to Joy's chagrin]
Oh, Sadness, we don’t have time for this. We’ll just have to go around. Take the scenic route.
Wait, Joy, you could get lost in there!
Joy Think positive!
Okay. I'm positive you will get lost in there! That's Long-Term Memory. An endless warren of corridors and shelves. I read about it in the manuals.
Joy The manuals? [it dawns on her] The manuals! You read the manuals!
Yeah.
Joy So you know the way back to Headquarters!
I-I guess.
Joy [does a happy little dance and giggles excitedly]
You are my map. Let's go, lead on, my map! Show me where we're going!
[attempts to sit up]
Okay, only... [falls back down] I'm too sad to walk, just give me a few... hours... [Joy rolls her eyes and grabs Sadness by the foot, dragging her into Long-Term Memory] Oh!
Joy Which way, left?
Right. [Joy turns right] No, I mean "go left", I said left is right, like, "correct".
Joy Okay. [drags Sadness the opposite direction]
This actually feels kind of nice.
Joy Okay! Here we go! We'll be back to Headquarters before morning! This'll be easy! This is working!
Joy [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.
Joy 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...
Joy [shocked]
The song from the gum commercial?
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...
Joy 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...
Joy [to the workers, who are walking away singing]
Wait! Do you know how to get to Friendship Island?!
Meg
You like it there. Do you feel any Earthquake. It’s the bridges cool.
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-
I gotta go.
Meg
What?
Joy 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.
Bing Bong, Bing Bong.
Joy His rocket make his yell Hooray.
Joy, Bing Bong
Bing Bong, Bing Bong!
You know, it's unclear. I'm mostly cotton candy. But shape-wise, I'm part cat, part elephant, part dolphin.
Joy Dolphin?
[imitates a dolphin, with his trunk folded to resemble a dolphin's snout]
You got to remember. When Riley was 3, animals were all the rage. The cow goes "meow". The horse goes "oink". That's all people talked about back then.
Joy Yeah. Yeah. I guess that's true. What are you doing out here?
Well, there's not much call for imaginary friends lately. So I, you know...[taps his fingers a bit, then sulks]
Joy Hey, hey. Don't be sad. Tell you what. When I get back up to Headquarters, I'll make sure Riley remembers you.
Joy Of course! She'd love that!
[laughs happily]
This is the greatest day of my life! [does his happy dance, but pulls a muscle and sits down to cry in pain]
Joy Are you okay? [as he cries, pieces of candy fall like tears to the ground]
I cry candy. Try the caramel. It's delicious.
Joy Ooh. Whoa.
Ooh, here, use this.
Joy Thanks.
Whoa, hold on. Wait a second.
[Riley storms off fumingly from the ice hockey rink after botching a fumbling shot]
Riley, what's wrong?
Let's go!
You're not going to finish tryouts?!
What's the point?
Hey, it will be all right. Let's just--
Stop saying everything will be all right!
Joy [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.
Joy 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]
Joy [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.
Joy [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.
Joy 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.
[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.]
Joy [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.
Joy [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.
Joy [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?!
Joy [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.
Joy [Joy made it to the top of the cliff out of the Memory Dump]
Whoo-hoo! Bing Bong, we did it! We– Bing Bong? [Joy hurries to the edge of the cliff and looks down at Bing Bong still in the dump] Bing Bong!
Ha, ha, ha! You made it! Ha, ha, ha, ha! Go! Go save Riley! Ha, ha, ha! Take her to the moon for me… okay? [Bing Bong smiles and waves at Joy, and then fades]
Joy [hangs her head sadly]
I'll try, Bing Bong. I promise.
Joy!
Joy Hang on!
Oh, I wish Joy was here!
Stand back! [he tries to smash the window open with a chair, but it bounces off]
Well, what would you do if you're so smart?!
WHAT!
Of course your tiny brain is confused! Guess I'll just have to dumb it down to your level! [The top of Anger's head starts to get brighter and hotter] Sorry I don't speak moron as well as you, but let me try! [makes a weird face] Duuuhhhh… [Anger screams as flames explode from his head and Disgust uses Anger's flames like a blowtorch to melt a hole in the window, allowing Joy and Sadness to get in Headquarters]
Oh, thank goodness, you’re back!
Do you things really miss up.
We found this idea.
We were just trying to make happy memories.
Joy Sadness, It’s up to you.
Me.
Disgust, Fear, Anger
Sadness!?
I can’t, Joy.
Joy Yes you can. Riley needs you.
Teacher
[During credits, School]
And who can tell me what year San Francisco was founded? Anyone? Jordan?
Jordan
[off-screen]
Uhh...
Teacher's Disgust
[Zooms into her head to her emotions looking bored; her anger bangs her head on the globe]
How much more of this?
Teacher's Sadness
Five months, two weeks and four days until summer vacation.
Teacher's Joy
Then it's off to the Bahamas with you know who! [presses a button bringing in the same memory of the helicopter pilot Riley's mother had]
Helicopter pilot Come. Fly with me, gatinha.
Troy
[Yeast of Eden Pizza place] [to customer]
Have a nice day.
Troy's Disgust
[Zooms into her head to her emotions]
What are we made about?
Troy's Anger
I don't know. Whatever Troy's mad about.
Troy's Disgust
What's Troy mad about?
Troy's Anger
I don't know.
Cool Girl
[School yard]
I know. Totally.
Cool Girl's Fear
[Zooms into her head to her emotions]
We're a total fraud! Do you think they can see through us?
Cool Girl's Anger
Of course not! We're wearing eye shadow!
Cool Girl's Sadness
Being cool is so exhausting.
Jangles [Birthday party in Minnesota] [holds up a balloon animal]
Who's the birthday girl? Huh? Hey! [Nobody responds] Hello?
Jangles' Joy
[Zooms into his head to his emotions]
Six years of drama school, for this?
[San Francisco street traffic, the bus driver focuses on the road while people in the background make lots of noises; Zooms into his head to his emotions; they all have the same personality as Anger]
You know what, this is okay. This is fine. We just need to go to our happy place.
[Bus Driver's Anger recalls a happy memory, but he gets instead the annoying TripleDent Gum commercial, making the Bus Driver's emotions more enraged]
DID I ASK FOR THE GUM COMMERCIAL?!
[Bus Driver's Anger looks at another emotion drinking soda, making him so angry that his head goes up in flames]
