Joaquin Phoenix movie quotes

“So much of philosophy is just verbal masturbation.”
Joaquin Phoenix - Abe

“Listen to me Abbe and listen well. I've stared into the face of evil and I've lived to tell the tale and now, I beg you, for your sake, let me write it down.”
Joaquin Phoenix - Coulmier

“- Linda Morrison: I saw you on the news, Jack, dangling from a rope! How could you tell me that it's not dangerous?
- Jack Morrison: I never said it wasn't dangerous.
- Linda Morrison: When we talked about it, I asked you and you said it wasn't dangerous.
- Jack Morrison: I said it wasn't any more dangerous than being on the engine! I never said...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jacinda Barrett - Linda Morrison
Joaquin Phoenix - Jack Morrison

“- Alice Hunt: And what makes you think that he has feelings for me?
- Lucius Hunt: The way he never touches you.”
Sigourney Weaver - Alice Hunt
Joaquin Phoenix - Lucius Hunt

- Merrill Hess: For the kids' protection. They were watching the TV from 5am on. I didn't want them getting obsessed, like you said. They should be outside, playing "Furry Furry Rabbit" or tea party or something.
- Rev. Graham Hess: What's "Furry Furry rabbit"?
- Merrill Hess: It's a game, isn't it?
Joaquin Phoenix - Merrill Hess
Mel Gibson - Rev. Graham Hess

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
Joaquin Phoenix - Abe

“- John R. Cash: Tell me you don't love me.
- June Carter: I don't love you.
- John R. Cash: You're a liar.”
Joaquin Phoenix - John R. Cash
Reese Witherspoon - June Carter

“- Pamela Abbott: You don't know my father, you don't know how he is about Jacey. He blames him for everything that happened with Eleanor.
- Doug Holt: Look, Eleanor flirts with a lot of guys. It's not Jacey's fault your dad kicked her out.”
Liv Tyler - Pamela Abbott
Joaquin Phoenix - Doug Holt

“One time, I was at this party... and I was sitting on the couch with Amanda McKinney. She was just sitting there, looking beautiful. So, I lean in to kiss her, and I realize I have gum in my mouth. So, I turn to spit it out and put it in a paper cup. I turn back, and Amanda McKinney throws up all over herself. I knew the moment it happened, it...” (continue)(continue reading)
Joaquin Phoenix - Merrill Hess

“- Abe: Um, I'm blocked, I can't write.
- Rita: Why?
- Abe: I can't write 'cause I can't breathe.
- Rita: What would get you breathing again?
- Abe: The will to breathe, inspiration.
- Rita: You need a muse.
- Abe: I've never needed a muse before.
- Rita: I hope you're not going to send me back out into the rain after sleeping with me.”
Joaquin Phoenix - Abe
Parker Posey - Rita

“- Coulmier: It's nothing but an encyclopedia of perversions. One man killed his wife after reading them.
- The Marquis de Sade: It's a fiction, not a moral treatise.”
Joaquin Phoenix - Coulmier
Geoffrey Rush - The Marquis de Sade

“- Grace Learner: I want to get help. I want us to talk to someone.
- Ethan Learner: Okay. You wanna talk to somebody, Grace? We'll talk to whoever you want. We can talk to the police, lawyer, a therapist. I'll talk to the goddamn Pope! Anything you want, okay?”
Jennifer Lynn Connelly - Grace Learner
Joaquin Phoenix - Ethan Learner

“In order to really see the world, we must break with our familiar acceptance of it.”
Joaquin Phoenix - Abe

“- John R. Cash: Aw, June, love's more important than the tour.
- June Carter: Is that right?
- John R. Cash: Yes, it is.
- June Carter: Well, then start loving yourself, so we can go back to work.”
Joaquin Phoenix - John R. Cash
Reese Witherspoon - June Carter

“Don't give me no rules. All I got are rules.”
Joaquin Phoenix - John R. Cash

“Life's ironic isn't it? One day a person has a morass of complicated, unsolvable problems then in the batting of an eye, dark clouds part and she can enjoy a decent life again.”
Joaquin Phoenix - Abe

“- Tom Welles: Wouldn't want to embarrass yourself in front of your fellow perverts.
- Max California: That's right. I might get drummed out of the Pornographer's Union. Where would I be then?”

Nicolas Cage - Tom Welles
Joaquin Phoenix - Tom Welles

“He's a producer-slash-director-slash weirdo. He's like the Jim Jarmusch of S&M.”

Joaquin Phoenix - Max California

- Deputy D.A. Penny Kimball: Grass. And who knows what else?
- Larry "Doc" Sportello: I'm only a light smoker.
- Deputy D.A. Penny Kimball: How many joints have you had today?
- Larry "Doc" Sportello: I have to check the logbook.
Reese Witherspoon - Deputy D.A. Penny Kimball
Joaquin Phoenix - Larry "Doc" Sportello

- Larry "Doc" Sportello: What've you been up to?
- Japonica Fenway: Escaping, mostly, and I escape real good.
Joaquin Phoenix - Larry "Doc" Sportello
Sasha Pieterse - Japonica Fenway

- Larry "Doc" Sportello: Is that a swastika on that man's face?
- Dr. Threeply: No, it isn't. That's an ancient Hindu symbol meaning "all is well". It brings good fortune, luck and well-being.

Joaquin Phoenix - Larry "Doc" Sportello
Jefferson Mays - Dr. Threeply

“- Colonel Berman: One thousand gallons of Mop & Glow... my God, do we really need that much?
- Ray Elwood: Well, cleanliness is next to godliness.”

Ed Harris - Colonel Berman
Joaquin Phoenix - Ray Elwood

“- Ivy Walker: How is it you are brave, when all the rest of us shake in our boots?
- Lucius Hunt: I do not worry about what will happen, only what needs to be done.”
Bryce Dallas Howard - Ivy Walker
Joaquin Phoenix - Lucius Hunt

“There's basically two types of guys in the army, the motherfuckers and the motherfucked. Sergeant Saad is the third kind, he fucks the motherfuckers. Which is doable when you're the chief MP by day and the director of retail heroin sales by night.”
Joaquin Phoenix - Ray Elwood

“- Max California: Can I interest you in a battery-operated vagina?
- Tom Welles: No, thank you.
- Max California: Are you sure? I'd hate for you to be in one of those everyday situations that calls for a battery-operated vagina and not have one.”
Joaquin Phoenix - Max California
Nicolas Cage - Tom Welles