Joaquin Phoenix quotes
- La trovi in Career in Cinema
- La trovi in Career in Cinema
“Once I became a total buffoon, it was so liberating.”
- From the movie: Joker
“I haven't been happy one minute of my entire fucking life.”
- From the movie: Joker
“Have you seen what it's like out there, Murray? Do you ever actually leave the studio? Everybody just yells and screams at each other. Nobody's civil anymore. Nobody thinks what it's like to be the other guy. You think men like Thomas Wayne ever think what it's like to be someone like me? To be somebody but themselves? They don't. They think...” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: Walk the Line
- La trovi in Life and Death in Hollywood
“For me, I'd rather have an intense experience than not.”
- From the movie: The Sisters Brothers
“- Eli Sisters: We have enough money to stop for good.
- Charlie Sisters: Stop what?
- Eli Sisters: Killing people.
- Charlie Sisters: Yeah, right.” - From the movie: The Sisters Brothers
“- Charlie Sisters: You do realize that our father was stark raving mad and we got his foul blood in our veins? That was his gift to us. That blood is why we're good at what we do.
- Eli Sisters: Our father drank, Charlie.
- Charlie Sisters: Touché.” - From the movie: Joker
“I've got nothing left to lose. Nothing can hurt me anymore.”
- From the movie: Joker
“Comedy is subjective Murray, isn't that what they say? All of you, the system that knows so much: you decide what's right or wrong the same way you decide what's funny or not.”
- From the movie: Joker
“My mother always tells me to smile and put on a happy face. She told me I had a purpose: to bring laughter and joy to the world.”
- From the movie: Joker
“I hope my death makes more cents than my life.”
- From the movie: Joker
“I killed those guys because they were awful. Everybody is awful these days. It's enough to make anyone crazy.”
- From the movie: Joker
“Is it just me, or is it getting crazier out there?”
- From the movie: Joker
“- Arthur Fleck: Murray, one small thing?
- Murray Franklin: Yeah?
- Arthur Fleck: When you bring me out, can you introduce me as Joker?” - From the movie: Joker
“The worst part of having a mental illness is people expect you to behave as if you don't.”
- From the movie: Joker
“I used to think that my life was a tragedy, but now I realize, it's a comedy.”
- From the movie: Joker
“For my whole life, I didn't know if I even really existed. But I do, and people are starting to notice.”
- From the movie: Irrational Man
“I wanted to be an active world changer and I've wound up a passive intellectual who can't fuck.”
- From the movie: Irrational Man
“I'm Abe Lucas and I've murdered. I've had many experiences and now a unique one. I've taken a human life. Not in battle or self defense, but I made a choice I believed in and saw it through. I feel like an authentic human being.”
- From the movie: 8mm
“I don't buy it. I don't endorse it. I just point the way.”
- From the movie: Irrational Man
“It's very scary when you run out of distractions.”
- From the movie: Inventing the Abbotts
“- Pamela Abbott: Who do you look more like, your mother or your father?
- Doug Holt: Oh, I don't know.
- Pamela Abbott: What did your father look like?
- Doug Holt: Like a photograph.” - From the movie: Irrational Man
“I couldn't remember the reason for living, and when I did it wasn't convincing.”
- From the movie: Buffalo Soldiers
“These were my guys. Fighting the dull fight. Soldiers with nothing to kill except time. They know that war is hell, but peace... peace is fucking boring.”
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