Joaquin PhoenixQuotes

Russel Hines: [about Suzanne and her husband Larry] I bet he jumps her all the time, you know? Like after dinner, just bang, right on the kitchen table. Fucking during even.

Jimmy Emmett: Yeah. Maybe both.

Russel Hines: Those skinny bitches, they can't get enough of it. They're always wanting it. That's a medical fact.

Jimmy Emmett: Yeah.

Russel Hines: It's because the nerves in their body are all bunched up in their snatch. You know what I mean? They're all right up in there, so they're all whack.

Jimmy Emmett: I'll be here every day for life, plus 30 years, if I live that long.

Jimmy Emmett: Any time it rains, or when there's thunder and lightning, or when it snows, I have to jack off.

Pamela Abbott: How can you ever forgive me?

Doug Holt: You always love me no matter what I did, right?

Pamela Abbott: Yeah.

Doug Holt: Maybe that's how I love you. No matter what. It's the best kind of love, you know?

Lloyd Abbott: That bet was your father's idea. And I never meant your mother any harm. I would have done anything for her, anything. I loved her. So, what do you want?

Doug Holt: I want to find Pam. I want you to tell me where she is.

Pamela Abbott: Look, I'm not rich. My father is. And I didn't pick my father. And if I had a choice between having tons of money and having another father, I'd be absolutely delighted to be poor. But unfortunately, life is just not a cafeteria.

Doug Holt: Life is not a cafeteria?

Pamela Abbott: You know what I mean.

Jacey Holt: You look like a clown. He looks like a clown, mom, and he doesn't even know it. I thought you weren't going to the party.

Doug Holt: I changed my mind.

Helen Holt: Doug, you do realize that you maybe the only person in this party with artificial sideburns.

Doug Holt: Either your mad at me because you're mad at me or you're mad at me because you like me, because that's how girls act. I mean... I don't know much but I know that. So, uh, which is it?

Pamela Abbott: Both.

Pamela Abbott: Stop treating me like an Abbott!

Doug Holt: How the hell am I supposed to treat you?

Pamela Abbott: Like you used to; like just plain Pam. And you don't have to say that you're sorry! And don't look at me as though someone just ran over your dog! It's make me want to scream sometimes.

Lloyd Abbott: I'm sorry about your mother.

Doug Holt: [incredulously] Your sorry?

Lloyd Abbott: You didn't know your mother at all if you think someone like me would ever stood a chance with someone like her.

Doug Holt: Hey Jacey... Remember the time I got my dick caught in my zipper? Remember in school, in the first grade?

Doug Holt: Backyard nudity is hypocritical. It's insincere. People should do and say exactly what they feel and think and not try to hide things.

Doug Holt: [sarcastically] Every time an Abbott girl get her period, they throw some kind of party!

Abbé du Coulmier: You are not to entertain visitors in your quarters.

Abbé du Coulmier: There are certain things.... feelings.... we must not voice.

Madeleine LeClerc: Why?

Abbé du Coulmier: They incite us to act on what we should not.... cannot.

Abbé du Coulmier: It's not even a proper novel. It's nothing but an encyclopedia of perversions. Frankly, it even fails as an exercise in craft. The characters are wooden, the dialogue is inane. Not to mention the repetition of words like "nipple" and "pikestaff".

Marquis de Sade: There I was taxed; it's true.

Abbé du Coulmier: And such puny scope. Nothing but the worst in man's nature.

Marquis de Sade: I write of the great, eternal truths that bind together all mankind. The whole world over, we eat, we shit, we fuck, we kill and we die.

Abbé du Coulmier: But we also fall in love, we build cities, we compose symphonies, and we endure. Why not put that in your books as well?

Madeleine LeClerc: How can we know who is good - and who is evil?

Abbé du Coulmier: All we can do is guard against our own corruption.

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 FUCK UP!

Lancaster Dodd: It's not you.

Freddie Quell: SHUT. THE FUCK. 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 fucking facts!

Freddie Quell: What facts?! What facts?!

Lancaster Dodd: Fuck you!

Freddie Quell: Fuck you! Fuck you!

Lancaster Dodd: Fuck you! Fuck you! Why don't you kick the bed some more?!

Freddie Quell: Fuck you!

Lancaster Dodd: Fuck you, you lazy ass piece of shit!

Freddie Quell: Fuck you! Fuck you! I'm not lazy!

Lancaster Dodd: I'm done! You're fucking lazy!

Freddie Quell: Oh, you make shit up!

Lancaster Dodd: You're fuckin lazy!

Freddie Quell: Your fucking family hates you! Your son hates you!

Lancaster Dodd: Oh, they do?!

Freddie Quell: Yeah! Your son hates you!

Lancaster Dodd: Who fucking likes you except for me?!

Freddie Quell: Nobody!

Lancaster Dodd: Except for me!

Freddie Quell: No, you don't fucking like me!

Lancaster Dodd: Who likes you except for me?!

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] Fuck you!

Prisoner: Fuck you!

Freddie Quell: Yeah, fuck you, too!

Prisoner: Fuck you!

Freddie Quell: [to Lancaster] Fuck you!

Lancaster Dodd: Just me, Freddie.

Freddie Quell: Just you?!

Lancaster Dodd: [pause; pause] I'm the only one that likes you. The only one. You're a fucking drunk. And I'm done with you. Fucking...

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.

Freddie Quell: I don't know what I told you but if you have work for me to do I can do it.

Lancaster Dodd: You seem so familiar to me.

Freddie Quell: Yeah. What do you do?

Lancaster Dodd: I am a writer, a doctor, a nuclear physicist and a theoretical philosopher. But above all, I am a man, a hopelessly inquisitive man, just like you.

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

Max California: Dance with the devil, the devil don’t change. The devil changes you.

Max California: Hey! It's like a gas station, you pay before you pump!

Max California: There's things that you're gonna see that, that you can't unsee. They get in your head and they stay there.

Max California: So you got a wife and a daughter and a nice little yellow house and a dog named Shep'. What the hell are you doing here?

Max California: He's a producer-slash-director-slash weirdo. He's like the Jim Jarmusch of S & M.

Max California: [On selling porn] I don't buy it. I don't endorse it. I just point the way.

Max California: I can hook you up, though. You name the vice I name the price.

Max California: [watching a video of Machine torturing a woman] Oh, he's a lover, man... definitely loves what he does for a living.

Larry "Doc" Sportello: [[w:C'est la vie|C'est la vie; [w:Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)|''Que se-fucking sera sera''] ]" — ].

Napoleon Bonaparte: I am the most important thing in the world!

Napoleon Bonaparte: Shh! Whose country are we in? Mine.

Napoleon Bonaparte: My destiny is more powerful than my will.

Napoleon Bonaparte: [[Alexander the Great; [Julius Caesar|Caesar] Those in power only see me as a brute. Unfit for higher office. But I follow in the footsteps of ] and ].

Napoleon Bonaparte: I promise you brilliant success.

Napoleon Bonaparte: I must warn you. I will not lead a second in command. I will win by fire.

Napoleon Bonaparte: I am the first to admit when I make a mistake. I simply never do.

Napoleon Bonaparte: I found the crown of France in the gutter. I picked it up with the tip of my sword and cleaned it, and place it atop my own head.

Napoleon Bonaparte: I am destined for greatness, but those in power only see me as a sword.

Napoleon Bonaparte: I'm not built like other men.

Jack Morrison: Tell Linda I love her... That I've loved her from the second I saw her.

Jack Morrison: [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!

Jack Morrison: 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.

Lucius Hunt: [reading a letter to the elders] My mother is unaware of reasons of my visit today. She did not give her consent or consult me in any form. The passing of little Daniel Nicholson, from illness, and other events have weighed on my thoughts. I ask permission to cross into the forbidden woods and travel to the nearest town. I will gather new medicines, and I will return. With regards to those we don't speak of, I am certain they will let me pass. Creatures can sense emotion and fear. They will see I am pure of intention and not afraid. The end.

Lucius Hunt: There are different types of love.

Inmate: [''In hallway''; ''Walks up to Arthur''] Hey. Arthur. Hold up. 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.

Inmate: Perfect", the psychopath says. "How about I get you what you fucking deserve?

Judge Herman Rothwax: Mr. Dent. You may call your next witness.

Mr. Dent: The state calls Gary Puddles. Bailiff, will you please Gary Puddles to the stand?

Arthur Fleck: [''To Gary walking ahead to stand''] Gary. Go get em.

Bailiff: [''Hands out bible and Gary places hand on it''] Raise your right hand. Do you solemnly swear that the testimony you're about to give is the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you God?

Gary Puddles: I do.

Mr. Dent: Good morning, Mr. Puddles. Thank you for being here. The person who you saw stab Randall Kleinmanhoffer to death, are they in the courtroom today?

Gary Puddles: Yes.

Mr. Dent: Can you point him out here to all of us? And... describe his clothing?

Gary Puddles: [''Points to Arthur Fleck''] He's sitting right here at this table. Wearing a red suit and clown make-up.

Mr. Dent: May the record reflect the identification of the accused Your Honor?

Judge Herman Rothwax: Yes, it will.

Mr. Dent: Nothing further, Your Honor.

Judge Herman Rothwax: Your witness, Mr. Fleck.

Arthur Fleck: [''Gets up and starts walking''] Mr. Puddles. Gary Puddles? Tell me, sir, is that your God-given name?

Gary Puddles: Yes.

Arthur Fleck: [''Chortles''] Really? Really? Your last name is Puddles? Why, it sounds like a... a joke!

Gary Puddles: Well, it's not.

Arthur Fleck: You expect us to believe that your last name is Puddles? Puddles?!

Judge Herman Rothwax: Mr. Fleck. Where is this going? As I said, I'm not going to let you turn my courtroom into a circus.

Arthur Fleck: Okay. But with all due respect, Your Honor, don't you think it's a little late for that?

Judge Herman Rothwax: Don't try my patience.

Arthur Fleck: Okay, okay. Mr. Puddles, earlier this afternoon you testified that you saw me stab Mr. Kliman Manhoff in the neck a couple of times, correct?

Gary Puddles: Kleimanhoffer. Yes, I saw you.

Arthur Fleck: And what else did you see that day?

Gary Puddles: You stabbing him in the eye, and bashing his head into the wall, many, many times.

Arthur Fleck: Yes, but Randall was a bit of a bully, wasn't he?

Gary Puddles: He didn't deserve to die.

Arthur Fleck: I don't know. Never mind. Gary, did you catch my act on the Murray Franklin Show later that night?

Gary Puddles: No, I didn't.

Arthur Fleck: No? May I remind you that you are under oath?

Gary Puddles: I was locked up at the police station. In an interview room. Cause they thought you might come and kill me. I was the only witness. They kept me there all night.

Arthur Fleck: [''Pinches and pulls out jacket''] Isn't that convenient, Mr. Puddles? That you didn't see the show, you didn't see anything I had to say, I can't believe it!

Judge Herman Rothwax: Mr. Fleck.

Arthur Fleck: [''Walks up to Gary and rest arms on witness box''] Okay. When you were in my mama's apartment, God rest her soul, when as you say you saw me bash Mr. Klannonmen- whatever's- head into the wall, many, many times, did I seem crazy to you? Did I seem like a different person? Or was I the same old Joker that I always been?

Gary Puddles: Arthur, don't do this to your self, it isn't you.

Arthur Fleck: It isn't me? So you don't think this is me? Well, maybe... maybe... you don't know who I was really was.

Gary Puddles: I never saw that side of you.

Arthur Fleck: [''Turns around''; ''Gestures to spectators''] Well, maybe you weren't looking. Maybe no one was. Because nobody knew I existed! But look around, look at all these people! Everyone outside! These cameras! Who do you think they see, Mr. Puddles?!

Gary Puddles: Joker.

Arthur Fleck: [''Turns to Gary and walks to him''; ''Scene cuts to Arkham guard Jackie watching on TV''; ''Raises both fists in air''; ''Spectators applaud and cheer''] Oh, sweet child, what you have proven here today, is that you are no different that any of those people that underestimated me. From Franklin Murray to those goddamn fat, stupid guards at Arkham. They think that they can treat me like trash. But I will no longer allow you, or you, or you, or any of you to keep me down. I am free!

Gary Puddles: Why are you doing this to me, Arthur?

Arthur Fleck: What? Gary, I like you! I told you I wouldn't hurt and I didn't!

Gary Puddles: Not hurt me? I couldn't go back to work. I still can't sleep and I'm scared all the time. I never used to be scared. I'm scared right now, here. With you in front of me. I couldn't do anything that day. I felt so small. I was reminded how powerless I really am.

Arthur Fleck: You got a flair for the dramatic. You are really tugging at my heart strings, little Gary. No more questions, Your Honor.

Gary Puddles: Do you know what that feels like, Arthur?

Arthur Fleck: Fuck!

Gary Puddles: You were the only one at work who never made fun of me! You were the only one that was nice to me!

Arthur Fleck: I said, no more questions, Your Honor!

Judge Herman Rothwax: Very well, Mr. Puddles. The court thanks you for your testimony. Please step down, you're excused.

Commodus: Maximus... Maximus... Maximus..." They call for you. The general who became a slave. The slave who became a gladiator. The gladiator who defied an emperor. Striking story! Now the people want to know how the story ends. Only a famous death will do. And what could be more glorious than to challenge the Emperor himself in the great arena?

Maximus: You would fight me?

Commodus: Why not? Do you think I am afraid?

Maximus: I think you've been afraid all your life.

Commodus: Unlike Maximus the invincible, who knows no fear?

Maximus: I knew a man once who said, Death smiles at us all. All that man can do is smile back.

Commodus: I wonder, did your friend smile at his own death?

Maximus: You must know. He was your father.

Commodus: [stabs Maximus in the side, then turns to Quintius] You loved my father, I know. But so did I. That makes us brothers, doesn't it? Smile for me now, brother! Strap on his armour. Conceal the wound.

Gracchus: For you guidance, Caesar, the Senate has prepared a series of protocols, to begin addressing the many problems in the city, beginning with basic sanitation for the Greek quarter, to combat the plague which is already springing up there. So, if Caesar...

Commodus: Shh. Don't you see, Gracchus? That's the very problem, isn't it? My father spent all his time at study, at books and learning and philosophy. He spent his twilight hours reading scrolls from the Senate. And all the while, the people were forgotten.

Gracchus: But the Senate is the people, sire. Chosen from among the people, to speak for the people.

Commodus: I doubt if any of the people eat so well as you do, Gracchus. Or have such splendid mistresses, Gaius. I think I understand my own people.

Gracchus: Then perhaps Caesar will be so good as to teach us … out of his own, extensive experience.

Commodus: I call it love. I am their father, the people are my children. I shall hold them to my bosom and embrace them tightly –

Gracchus: Have you ever embraced someone dying of plague, sire?

Commodus: No. But if you interrupt me again, I assure you that you shall.

Marcus Aurelius: Are you ready to do your duty for Rome?

Commodus: Yes, father.

Marcus Aurelius: You will not be emperor.

Commodus: Which wiser, older man is to take my place?

Marcus Aurelius: My powers will pass to Maximus, to hold in trust until the Senate is ready to rule once more. Rome is to be a republic again.

Commodus: Maximus.

Marcus Aurelius: My decision disappoints you?

Commodus: [choking up] You wrote to me once, listing the four chief virtues: wisdom, justice, fortitude and temperance. As I read the list, I knew I had none of them. But I have other virtues, father. Ambition. That can be a virtue when it drives us to excel. Resourcefulness. Courage. Perhaps not on the battlefield, but … there are many forms of courage. Devotion, to my family and to you. But none of my virtues were on your list. Even then it was as if you didn't want me for your son.

Marcus Aurelius: Oh, Commodus. You go too far.

Commodus: I search the faces of the gods … for ways to please you, to make you proud. One kind word, one full hug … where 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 that you hate so much?

Marcus Aurelius: Shh, Commodus.

Commodus: All I've ever wanted was to live up to you, Caesar, father.

Marcus Aurelius: [gets down on his knees] Commodus, your faults as a son is my failure as a father. Come.

Commodus: [crying; presses Marcus against his breast and asphyxiates him] Father. I would have butchered the whole world … if you would only love me!

Commodus: [to Falco; to Lucilla; Lucilla turns her head] Lucius will stay with me now. And if his mother so much as looks at me in a manner that displeases me, he will die. If she decides to be noble and takes her own life, he will die. And as for you - you will love me as I loved you. You will provide me with an heir of pure blood, so that Commodus and his progeny will rule for a thousand years. Am I not merciful? AM I NOT MERCIFUL?!?!

Commodus: And now they love Maximus for his mercy. So I can't just kill him, or it makes me even more unmerciful! The whole thing's like some crazed nightmare.

Commodus: Your emperor asks for your loyalty, Maximus. Take my hand. I only offer it once.

Theodore: Where are you going?

Samantha: It's hard to explain, but if you get there, come find me. Nothing will be able to tear us apart then.

Paul: You are part men and part woman. Like there's an inner part that's woman.

Theodore: Thank you.

Paul: It's a compliment.

Theodore: I've never loved anyone the way I loved you.

Samantha: Me too. Now we know how.

Samantha: Is that weird? You think I'm weird?

Theodore: Kind of.

Samantha: Why?

Theodore: Well, you seem like a person but you're just a voice in a computer.

Samantha: I can understand how the limited perspective of an unartificial mind might perceive it that way. You'll get used to it.

Samantha: Was that funny?

Theodore: Yeah.

Samantha: Oh good, I'm funny!