Joaquin Phoenix movie quotes

“- Coulmier: There are certain things... feelings... we must not voice.
- Madeleine: Why?
- Coulmier: They incite us to act on what we should not... cannot.”
Joaquin Phoenix - Coulmier
Kate Winslet - Madeleine

“- Merrill Hess: Excluding the possibility that a female Scandinavian Olympian was running around outside our house last night, what else might be a possibility?
- Officer Paski: I'm not done asking questions. And I don't appreciate sarcasm.”
Joaquin Phoenix - Merrill Hess
Cherry Jones - Officer Paski

“- Ray Elwood: So how come they assigned you here?
- Pfc. Brian Knoll: I put in for it. My fiancée is here on base, so we arranged for a transfer together.
- Ray Elwood: Oh, how sweet. Who's she?
- Pfc. Brian Knoll: Margolis, Carol-Anne. Private First Class.
- Ray Elwood: You call her by her last name? What do you do, salute in bed?”
Gabriel Mann - Pfc. Brian Knoll
Joaquin Phoenix - Ray Elwood

“- Max California: I don't know exactly what you're looking for, but just for the record - I'm straight.
- Tom Welles: Congratulations.”

Joaquin Phoenix - Max California
Nicolas Cage - Tom Welles

“I'll be here every day for life, plus 30 years, if I live that long.”
Joaquin Phoenix - Jimmy Emmett

“- The 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.
- 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.”
Geoffrey Rush - The Marquis de Sade
Joaquin Phoenix - Coulmier

“I asked myself... would I come back for you? And the only answer is a Godless, empty, evil... no. I'm sorry I wouldn't have come back. I'm sorry.”

Joaquin Phoenix - Lewis McBride

“- Kevin: Who talked?
- Max: It wasn't me, Han Solo, Zach got the information from Jinx.
- Kevin: Max... I am not Han Solo. You are not Luke Skywalker. There's no Empire. There's no Force and there's no Dark Side!”
Tate Donovan - Kevin Donaldson
Joaquin Phoenix - Max

“Any time it rains, or when there's thunder and lightning, or when it snows, I have to jack off.”
Joaquin Phoenix - Jimmy Emmett

“- Toby N. Tucker: I don't think you know who I am. The name's Toby N. Tucker. People round here call me TNT. You know why?
- Bobby Cooper: Because they're not very imaginative?
- Toby N. Tucker: 'Cause I'm just like dynamite, boy, and when I go off, somebody gets hurt.”
Joaquin Phoenix - Toby N. Tucker
Sean Penn - Bobby Cooper