Joaquin Phoenix movie quotes

“My worst fear is falling, falling like a bomb. You see, life for me is about distractions. I try to keep looking up and forget about what's down. But when I dream... I fall.”
Joaquin Phoenix - Ray Elwood

“- Sheriff Mooney: Promise me something there, will you?
- Clay Bidwell: What's that?
- Sheriff Mooney: Promise you'll stop finding dead people.”
Scott Wilson - Sheriff Dan Mooney
Joaquin Phoenix - Clay Bidwell

“- Lenny Richter: Are you married?
- Jack Morrison: No.
- Lenny Richter: Are you a virgin?
- Jack Morrison: No, father.
- Lenny Richter: What? You think its funny to fornicate with loose women?”

Robert Patrick - Lenny Richter
Joaquin Phoenix - Jack Morrison

“- Denahi: Killing that bear won't make you a man.
- Kenai: Now you're trying to be wise?
- Denahi: I'm trying to follow my totem. Why can't you do the same?
- Kenai: You really think love has anything to do with being a man? A man wouldn't just sit here and do nothing.”
Jason Raize - Denahi
Joaquin Phoenix - Kenai

- SFC Cunningham: It's called "probing". It's a military procedure. You send in a reconnaissance group, very small... to check things out. Not to engage, but to evaluate the situation... evaluate the level of danger. Make sure things are all clear.
- Merrill Hess: Clear for what?
- SFC Cunningham: For the rest of them.

Ted Sutton - SFC Cunningham
Joaquin Phoenix - Merrill Hess

“If you piss in your pants, you only stay warm for so long.”
Joaquin Phoenix - Bobby Green

I think if people see this footage, they'll say "Oh my God, that's horrible". And then they'll go on eating their dinners.

Joaquin Phoenix - Jack Daglish

“Parsons McCovey was a casualty of war. The only difference was that this was the Cold War and he was a fucked-up junkie. There'd be no hero's burial for Parsons.”
Joaquin Phoenix - Ray Elwood

“- Bobby Cooper: You don't know what you're fighting for!
- Toby N. Tucker: My honour! That's what I'm fighting for!”
Sean Penn - Bobby Cooper
Joaquin Phoenix - Toby N. Tucker

“- John R. Cash: I got a couple of songs I wrote in the Air Force. You got anything against the Air Force?
- Sam Phillips: No.
- John R. Cash: I do.”
Joaquin Phoenix - John R. Cash
Dallas Roberts - Sam Phillips

“There are a lot of things I can take, and some things I can't. But what I can't take is when my older brother, who's everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don't ever want to see that look in your eyes again.”

Joaquin Phoenix - Merrill Hess

“Tell Linda I love her... That I've loved her from the second I saw her.”
Joaquin Phoenix - Jack Morrison

“- Doug Holt: You always loved 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.”
Joaquin Phoenix - Doug Holt
Liv Tyler - Pamela Abbott

“Three things I love about Germany: my Mercedes-Benz, no speed limit on the autobahn and a black market for anything I can get my hands on.”
Joaquin Phoenix - Ray Elwood

“- Ray Elwood: I have the same dream all the time where its really high and I'm kind of floating and then I fall. Is that the same as yours?
- Robyn Lee: Kind of.
- Ray Elwood: Well, why? What happens in yours?
- Robyn Lee: I wake up before I hit the ground.
- Ray Elwood: I always hit. I don't wake up.”
Joaquin Phoenix - Ray Elwood
Anna Paquin - Robyn Lee

“- Max California: There's three rules in life: one, there's always a victim; two, don't be it.
- Tom Welles: And three?
- Max California: I forgot what three is.”
Joaquin Phoenix - Max California
Nicolas Cage - Tom Welles

“He's a lover, man... definitely loves what he does for a living.”

Joaquin Phoenix - Max California

“- Ivy Walker: When we are married, will you dance with me? I find dancing very agreeable. Why can you not say what is in your head?
- Lucius Hunt: Why can you not stop saying what is in yours? Why must you lead, when I want to lead? If I want to dance I will ask you to dance. If I want to speak I will open my mouth and speak. Everyone is forever...” (continue)(continue reading)
Bryce Dallas Howard - Ivy Walker
Joaquin Phoenix - Lucius Hunt

“- Doug Holt: I'm not like you, Jacey. I don't want to be.
- Jacey Holt: I'm sorry.
- Doug Holt: Yeah, you are.”
Joaquin Phoenix - Doug Holt
Billy Crudup - Jacey Holt

“- Max: I ain't getting in that.
- Kevin: No, Max, come on. I mean, it's not like you're using it for much else anyway, right?”

Joaquin Phoenix - Max
Tate Donovan - Kevin Donaldson

“His point is that there really is no peace. There's always some war, somewhere, with someone. And there are no winners or losers either. Just those who are still around to fight another day.”

Joaquin Phoenix - Ray Elwood

“- Max California: Do you get turned on at places like tonight?
- Tom Welles: No, I do not.
- Max California: But you don't exactly get turned off either, do ya? Devil's changing you already.”
Joaquin Phoenix - Max California
Nicolas Cage - Tom Welles

“If you dance with the devil, the devil don't change. The devil changes you.”
Joaquin Phoenix - Max California

“There are some things that you see, and you can't unsee them.”
Joaquin Phoenix - Max California

“- Doug Holt: Either you're 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 don't know much but I know that. So, which is it?
- Pamela Abbott: Both.”
Joaquin Phoenix - Doug Holt
Liv Tyler - Pamela Abbott