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Over 30 Of The Best Joker Quotes

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Are you a fan of Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker? Here are over 30 of the best quotes from the film!

The Best Joaquin Pheonix Joker Quotes

Is it just me or is it getting crazier out there? – Arthur Fleck

I just hope my death makes more cents [sic] than my life. – Arthur Fleck

I think I felt better when I was locked up in the hospital. – Arthur Fleck

Forgive my laughter. I have a condition. It’s a medical condition causing sudden, frequent and uncontrollable laughter that doesn’t match how you feel. It can happen in people with a brain injury or certain neurological conditions. Thank you! – The card that Arthur Fleck hands out on the bus

She always tells me to smile and put on a happy face. She says I was put here to spread joy and laughter. – Arthur Fleck

Hey, what’s your name?
Arthur.
Hey Arthur, you’re a really good dancer.
You know who’s not a good dancer? Him. – Arthur Fleck

The worst part about having a mental illness is people expect you to behave as if you don’t. – Arthur Fleck, in his journal

I was hoping you’d come in and rob the place. – Sophie Dumond
I have a gun. I could come by tomorrow. – Arthur Fleck

Until a little while ago, it was like nobody ever saw me. Even I didn’t know if I really existed. – Arthur Fleck

You don’t listen, do you? I don’t think you ever really hear me. You just ask the same question every week. “How’s your job? Are you having any negative thoughts?” All I have are negative thoughts, but you don’t listen anyway. I said that for my whole life, I didn’t know if I even really existed. But I do. And people are starting to notice. – Arthur Fleck

It’s funny. When I was a little boy and told people I was gonna be a comedian, everyone laughed at me. Well, no one’s laughing now. – Arthur Fleck

It’s so hard to just try and be happy all the time. – Arthur Fleck

You know how you used to tell me that my laugh was a condition? That there was something wrong with me? There isn’t. That’s the real me. – Arthur Fleck

I used to think that my life was a tragedy. But now I realize it’s a fucking comedy. – Arthur Fleck

I stopped taking my medication. I feel a lot better now. – Arthur Fleck

You are the only one that was ever nice to me. – Arthur Fleck

I don’t believe in anything. – Arthur Fleck

Murray, one small thing. When you bring me out, can you introduce me as Joker? – Arthur Fleck

It’s just, you know, it’s been a rough few weeks, Murray, ever since I killed those three Wall Street guys. – Arthur Fleck

I’ve got nothing left to lose. Nothing can hurt me anymore. My life is nothing but a comedy. – Arthur Fleck

Do I look like the kind of clown who could start a movement? I killed those guys because they were awful. Everybody is awful these days. It’s enough to make anyone crazy. – Arthur Fleck

Everybody just yells and screams at each other. Nobody’s civil anymore. Nobody thinks what it’s like to be the other guy. – Arthur Fleck

What do you get when you cross a mentally-ill loner with a society that abandons him and treats him like trash? I’ll tell you what you get. You get what you fucking deserve. – Arthur Fleck

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More Quotes From Joker

If you’re gonna be a clown, at least you could be a good one. -Kid On The Street

I’m that kid whose father went out for a pack of cigarettes and never came back. – Murray Franklin

He’ll make a great mayor. Everybody says so. – Penny Fleck

Because Thomas Wayne is a good man. If he knew how we were living? If he saw this place? It would make him sick. I can’t explain it to you better than that. – Penny Fleck

You see all this, the lights, the show, the audience? I’d give it all up in a heartbeat to have a kid like you. – Murray Franklin

Don’t you have to be funny to be a comedian? – Penny Fleck

What kind of coward would do something that cold-blooded? Someone who hides behind a mask. Someone who is envious of those more fortunate than themselves, yet they’re too scared to show their own face. And until those kind of people change for the better, those of us who have made something of our lives will always think of those who haven’t as nothing but clowns. -Thomas Wayne

This next comic describes himself as a life-long Gotham resident who from a young age was always told that his purpose in life was to bring laughter and joy into this cold, dark world. Um…okay. – Comedy Show Emcee

I think the guy that did it is a hero. Three less pricks in Gotham City. Only a million more to go. – Sophie Dumond

I never heard him cry. He’s always been such a happy little boy. – Penny Fleck

Are you a fan of Joaquin Phoenix's Joker? Here are over 30 of the best quotes from the film!
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