River Phoenix movie quotes

“- Rose: Eddie, what's the problem?
- Eddie Birdlace: No problem. Just a man with a mission.
- Rose: What mission?
- Eddie Birdlace: You and me, against the pricks. Are you with me?”
Lili Taylor - Rose
River Phoenix - Eddie Birdlace

“- Gordie: Do you think I'm weird?
- Chris: Definitely.
- Gordie: No man, seriously. Am I weird?
- Chris: Yeah, but so what? Everybody's weird.”
Wil Wheaton - Gordie Lachance
River Phoenix - Chris Chambers

“I always know where I am by the way that the road looks. I just know that I've been here before. There's not another road anywhere that looks like this road, exactly like this road. It's one kind of place. One of a kind... like someone's face...”
River Phoenix - Mike Waters

“This road never ends. It probably goes all around the world.”

River Phoenix - Mike Waters

“- Devo: So... you guys took a taxi. How could you do that?
- Harlan: What's wrong with that?
- Devo: You came here to kill Joey.
- Harlan: So what?
- Devo: So, it's generally not a very good idea to take a taxi to the scene of a crime!”
River Phoenix - Devo
William Hurt - Harlan

“- Lisa Bentwright: Where would you sleep?
- Jimmy Reardon: In bed, of course.
- Lisa Bentwright: Whose bed?
- Jimmy Reardon: We'll talk about that when we get there.”
Meredith Salenger - Lisa Bentwright
River Phoenix - Jimmy Reardon

“- Roy Parmenter: You gotta' be crazy to bring a child into this ugly world.
- Jeff Grant: What's so hard about it?
- Roy Parmenter: Making a buck. Raising a family. Keeping it all together takes talent. Love.”
Sir Sidney Poitier - Roy Parmenter
River Phoenix - Jeff Grant

“- Chris: You four-eyed pile of shit!
- Teddy: A pile of shit has a thousand eyes.”
River Phoenix - Chris Chambers
Corey Feldman - Teddy Duchamp

“- Gordie: Maybe you could come into the college courses with me.
- Chris: Yeah right, that'll be the day.
- Gordie: Why not? You're smart enough.
- Chris: They won't let me.
- Gordie: What do you mean?
- Chris: It's what everyone thinks of my family in this town. It's what they think of me. I'm just one of those low-life Chambers kids.”
Wil Wheaton - Gordie Lachance
River Phoenix - Chris Chambers

“- Chris: You're gonna be a great writer someday, Gordie. You might even write about us guys if you ever get hard-up for material.
- Gordie: Guess I'd have to be pretty hard-up, huh?”
River Phoenix - Chris Chambers
Wil Wheaton - Gordie Lachance

“- Ace: Chambers, you little faggot. This is your last chance. What do you say, kid?
- Chris: Why don't you go home and fuck your mother some more?
- Ace: You're dead.”
Kiefer Sutherland - Ace Merrill
River Phoenix - Chris Chambers

“Once I had believed in father and the world had seemed small and old. Now he was gone and I wasn't afraid to love him anymore. And the world seemed limitless.”

River Phoenix - Charlie

- Darren Woods: [about "beings" on other planets] Maybe it's a bunch of Amazon rainforest women that wanna breed a new race.
- Wolfgang Müller: You pervert.
Jason Presson - Darren Woods
River Phoenix - Wolfgang Müller

“Aren't we supposed to question authority?”
River Phoenix - Danny Pope

“Where do you think you're running, man? We're stuck here together, you shit!”

River Phoenix - Mike Waters

“- Gordie: Fuck writing, I don't want to be a writer. It's stupid. It's a stupid waste of time.
- Chris: That's your dad talking.
- Gordie: Bullshit.
- Chris: Bull true.”
Wil Wheaton - Gordie Lachance
River Phoenix - Chris Chambers

“- Scott Favor: It's when you start doing things for free, that you start to grow wings. Isn't that right, Mike.
- Mike Waters: What?
- Scott Favor: Wings, Michael. You grow wings, and become a fairy.”
Keanu Reeves - Scott Favor
River Phoenix - Mike Waters

“- Harlan: This is only two hun'erd. We was promised five.
- Devo: For killing him five, for wounding him two.
- Harlan: You wanted me to shoot him so I shot him.
- Nadja: You woke him up! What good is that?”
William Hurt - Harlan
River Phoenix - Devo
Joan Plowright - Nadja

“- Lisa Bentwright: Jimmy, Jimmy can I see it? Won't something happen?
- Jimmy Reardon: Not if I don't want it to.
- Lisa Bentwright: It looks funny.
- Jimmy Reardon: Do you wanna hurt it's feelings?”

Meredith Salenger - Lisa Bentwright
River Phoenix - Jimmy Reardon

“- Gordie: Why did he have to die, Chris? Why did Denny have to die?
- Chris: I don't know.
- Gordie: It should've been me.
- Chris: Don't say that.
- Gordie: It should've been me.”

Wil Wheaton - Gordie Lachance
River Phoenix - Chris Chambers

“Al? Al Reardon? My father. My moral, upright, coffee sluping, status seeking, putting in overtime, hard day at the office, early rising, early bedding, make your own way in life father, had been screwing Joyce Fickett! That balding man with responsibilities was an extramarital joy-boy! No wonder i was having so much trouble! It was hereditary!”
River Phoenix - Jimmy Reardon

“- Gordie: Mickey's a mouse, Donald's a duck, Pluto's a dog. What's Goofy?
- Teddy: Goofy's a dog. He's definitely a dog.
- Chris: He can't be a dog. He drives a car and wears a hat.
- Vern: Oh, God. That's weird. What the hell is Goofy?”
Wil Wheaton - Gordie Lachance
Corey Feldman - Teddy Duchamp
River Phoenix - Chris Chambers
Jerry O'Connell - Vern Tessio

“- Abigail Patterson: What's this about a pizza?
- Danny Pope: Well, you ordered one.
- Abigail Patterson: I didn't. Well, will you have to pay for it?
- Danny Pope: Oh no... I'll have to eat it.”
Augusta Dabney - Abigail Patterson
River Phoenix - Danny Pope

“- Ben Crandall: If this is all a dream, what's gonna happen when we wake up?
- Wolfgang Müller: I don't know, but I can't wait to find out.”
Ethan Hawke - Ben Crandall
River Phoenix - Wolfgang Müller

“- Rosalie: They look like drug addicts.
- Devo: Well, they are drug addicts.
- Rosalie: Oh my God! You hired drug addicts?
- Devo: Who'd you expect me to hire? The Red Cross?”
Tracey Ullman - Rosalie
River Phoenix - Devo