Movies Flashcards
why so serious
not clown-jocker
used to think my life was a tragedy, but now I realize it’s a comedy
Costume’s a bit theatrical, but hey, who am I to talk?
Have you heard this one? It’ll kill you, Batman
What doesn’t kill you simply makes you stranger!
When I saw what a black, awful joke the world was, I went crazy as a coot!
As you know, madness is like gravity: All it takes is a little push
I don’t know what it was that bent your life out of shape, but who knows? Maybe I’ve been there too. Maybe I can help. We could work together. I could rehabilitate you. You needn’t be out there on the edge anymore. You needn’t be alone. We don’t have to kill each other. What do you say
If you’re good at something, never do it for free
When the chips are down, these civilized people, they’ll eat each other
The only sensible way to live in this world is without rules
Their morals, their code—it’s a bad joke.”
Wait ‘til they get a load of me
When they treat you like a joke, leave them like it’s funny
i won’t kill you because you’re just too much fun. I think you and I are destined to do this forever
You have nothing, nothing to threaten me with. Nothing to do with all your strength
If you don’t like the movie, I’ve got slides
A joke a day keeps the gloom away
Is it just me or is it getting crazier out there?
That’s not funny
It’s funny. When I was a little boy and told people I was going to be a comedian, everyone laughed at me. Well, no one’s laughing now
It’s not about the money, it’s about sending a message. Everything burns
You know, it only hurts when I laugh.
They need you right now, but when they don’t, they’ll cast you out like a leper
Don’t test the monster in me
I’m not good at future planning. I do not plan at all. Don’t know what I’m doing tomorrow. Do not have a day planner and don’t have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future
Without Batman, crime has no punchline.
Does it depress you to know just how alone you really are
I’m crazy enough to take on Batman, but the IRS? Nooo, thank you
It’d be funny if it weren’t so pathetic
Do you know how many times we’ve come close to world war three over a flock of geese on a computer screen? Do you know what triggered the last world war? An argument over how many telegraph poles Germany owed its war debt creditors! Telegraph poles!
Why don’t you just give me a call when you start taking things a little more seriously
“I don’t know why everyone is so rude, I don’t know why you are; I don’t want anything from you
Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I’m an agent of chaos
Tell me something, my friend, have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?”
Some people want to see you fail. Disappoint them!
You know, you remind me of my father. I hated my father
Do you want to know why I use a knife? Guns are too quick.
The real joke is your stubborn, bone deep conviction that somehow, somewhere, all of this makes sense! That’s what cracks me up each time
Haven’t you ever heard of the healing power of laughter
Memories are what our reason is based upon. If we can’t face them, we deny reason itself
I’m a dog chasing cars. I wouldn’t know what to do with one if I caught it
I feel like I know you. I’ve been watching you forever
Those mob fools want you gone so they can get back to the way things were. But I know the truth: There’s no going back. You’ve changed things forever
Kid, I’m the Joker. I don’t just randomly kill people. I kill people when it’s funny
For my whole life, I didn’t know if I even really existed. But I do, and people are starting to notice.
Do I look like the kind of clown that can start a movement
A man with nothing to fear is a man with nothing to love
His mask is his real face
The worst part of having a mental illness is people expect you to behave as if you don’t
The worst part of having a mental illness is people expect you to behave as if you don’t
You look good. Been working out? You could probably use a little sun. Then again, who am I to talk
You actually believed that all it would take is a few chemicals, a couple of days in drug-induced isolation and a cheap little nervous breakdown and you’d have me all figured out? Like there was some rabbit hole you could follow me down to understanding?
I’m not political. I’m just trying to make people laugh
i always wanted to see my dame in lights. Heh. Even in a moment of abject saccharine, I still got it
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
You really want to know what it feels like to be the clown at midnight? Where there’s only ever one joke and it’s always on you? Well, here you are. Now do you get it?”
When you bring me out, can you introduce me as Joker
Tell your men they work for me now! This is my city
You’ll never be sad, and you’ll never be lonely. You’ll always have me to dance with.”
You get what you f**king deserve