Joaquin Phoenix credited as playing...
Arthur Fleck
- Arthur Fleck: [written in notebook] The worst part of having a mental illness is people expect you to behave as if you don't.
- Arthur Fleck: You don't listen, do you? I don't think you ever really hear me. You just ask the same questions every week. "How's your job?" "Are you having any negative thoughts?" All I have are negative thoughts.
- Arthur Fleck: For my whole life, I didn't know if I even really existed. But I do, and people are starting to notice.
- Arthur Fleck: Murray, one small thing?
- Murray Franklin: Yeah?
- Arthur Fleck: When you bring me out, can you introduce me as Joker?
- [last lines]
- Arkham Psychiatrist: What's so funny?
- Arthur Fleck: I'm just thinking of a joke.
- Arkham Psychiatrist: Do you want to tell it to me?
- Arthur Fleck: You wouldn't get it.
- Arthur Fleck: How 'bout another joke, Murray?
- Murray Franklin: No, I think we've had enough of your jokes.
- Arthur Fleck: What do you get...
- Murray Franklin: I don't think so.
- Arthur Fleck: ...when you cross...
- Murray Franklin: I think we're done here now, thank you.
- Arthur Fleck: ...a mentally ill loner with a society that abandons him and treats him like trash?
- Murray Franklin: Call the police, Gene, call the police.
- Arthur Fleck: I'll tell you what you get! You get what you fuckin' deserve!
- [Joker shoots Murray in the head, killing him instantly]
- Arthur Fleck: I killed those guys because they were awful. Everybody is awful these days. It's enough to make anyone crazy.
- Arthur Fleck: Ugh, why is everybody so upset about these guys? If it was me dying on the sidewalk you'd walk right over me! I pass you everyday and you don't notice me! But these guys? Well because Thomas Wayne would cry about them on TV?
- Arthur Fleck: I've been the man of the house for as long as I can remember. I take good care of my mother.
- Murray Franklin: All that sacrifice, she must love you very much.
- Arthur Fleck: She does. 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: Have you seen what it's like out there, Murray? Do you ever actually leave the studio? Everybody just yells and screams at each other. Nobody's civil anymore. Nobody thinks what it's like to be the other guy. You think men like Thomas Wayne ever think what it's like to be someone like me? To be somebody but themselves? They don't. They think that we'll just sit there and take it, like good little boys! That we won't werewolf and go wild!
- Arthur Fleck: I know it seems strange, I don't mean to make you uncomfortable. I don't know why everyone is so rude; I don't know why you are. I don't want anything from you. Maybe a little bit of warmth, maybe a hug, dad? How about just a little bit of fucking decency!
- Arthur Fleck: You're awful, Murray.
- Murray Franklin: Me? I'm awful? How am I awful?
- Arthur Fleck: Playing my video. Inviting me on the show. You just wanted to make fun of me. You're just like the rest of them!
- Arthur Fleck: Comedy is subjective, Murray, isn't that what they say? All of you, the system that knows so much: you decide what's right or wrong the same way you decide what's funny or not.
- Arthur Fleck: I've got nothing left to lose. Nothing can hurt me anymore. My life is nothing but comedy.