Inside Out Quotes

  • [from trailer]

    Disgust: I'm Joy, this is Sadness, that's Anger, this is Disgust.

    Disgust: Ugh...

    Joy: And that's Fear.

    Fear: Ahhh! Look out!

  • [from trailer]

    Bing Bong: Come on, group hug! You too, Anger.

    Anger: Don't touch me.

  • [from trailer]

    Riley: [Disgust pushes a button and pulls a short lever] School was great, all right?

    Fear: What was that? I though you said we were gonna "act casual".

    Mom: Riley! Is everything okay?

    [Riley sighs]

    Father's Fear: Sir, she just rolled her eyes at us!

    Father's Anger: All right, make a show of force, I don't want to have to put the foot down.

    Father's Fear: No! Not the foot...

    Dad: Riley, I do not like this new attitude.

    Anger: Oh, I'll show you attitude, old man!

    Fear: No! no, no! Stay happy!

    [He gets punched by Anger, and Anger pushes a red button hard]

    Riley: What is your problem? Just leave me alone!

    Mother's Sadness: Sir, reporting high levels of sass!

    Father's Anger: Take it to DEFCON 2!

    Riley: DEFCON 2!

    Dad: I don't know where this disrespectful attitude came from.

    Anger: You want a piece of this, Pops?

    Riley: Yeah, well...

    Father's Anger: Prepare the foot!

    Father's Fear: Keys to safety position!

    [Father's emotions unlocks the foot and Father Fear is about to ready to hit the red button]

    Father's Fear: Ready to launch on your command, sir!

    Riley: [Anger hardly yells and pulls the lever as the explosion on the top of his head is on fire] Just shut up!

    Father's Anger: Fire!

    [Father Fear pushes the red button that releases the foot down]

    Dad: That's it! Go to your room!

    [Riley storms off]

    Father's Fear: The foot is down. The foot is down. Whoo!

    [Father's emotions cheered]

    Father's Anger: Good job, gentleman. That could have been a disaster.

    Mother's Sadness: Well, that was a disaster.

  • Anger: [seeing slices of pizza with only broccoli on top]

    Anger: Congratulations San Francisco, you've ruined pizza! First the Hawaiians, and now YOU!

  • Sadness: [in trailer; Joy is walking through Riley's mind, carrying the memory spheres] It's long term memory... you'll get lost in there.

    Joy: [calling over her shoulder] C'mon! Think positive!

    Sadness: Okay...

    [pause]

    Sadness: I'm positive that you'll get lost in there!

  • Fear: Maybe it was a bear?

    Disgust: There are no bears in San Francisco.

    Anger: I saw a really hairy guy, he looked like a bear.

  • Bing Bong: [Seeing a memory image of 11-year-old Riley] Whoa. Is this Riley?

    [Joy looks at the image and nods]

    Bing Bong: She's so big now. She won't fit in my rocket. How're we gonna get to the moon?"

    Joy: Oh, it's that time in the twisty tree, remember? The hockey team showed up and Mom and Dad were there cheering. Look at her, having fun and laughing. It's my favorite.

    Sadness: I love that one, too.

    Joy: Atta girl! Now you're getting it!

    Sadness: Yeah, it was the day the Prairie Dogs lost the big playoff game. Riley missed the winning shot. She felt awful. She wanted to quit. Sorry, I went sad again, didn't I?

  • Additional Voices: [During dream sequence] Eat us! We're organic!

  • Sadness: Crying helps me slow down and obsess over the weight of life's problems.

  • [when trying to get out of The Dump, Joy looks at the blue Core Memory and looks at a forgotten memory]

    Joy: Do you remember how she used to stick her tongue out when she was colouring?

    [Joy picks another forgotten memory up and looks at it]

    Joy: I could listen to her stories, all day.

    [Joy picks up a third one]

    Joy: I just wanted Riley to be happy...

    [holding the three forgotten memories and the blue Core Memory, she breaks down into tears]

  • Mind Worker Cop Jake: So, you're saying your husband was blown away by an elephant. Was he with anyone?

    Cloud Woman: Yes! And there she is!

    [Joy runs through the Cloud Woman, causing her to disappear]

    Mind Worker Cop Jake: Hey, come back here!

    Mind Worker Cop: Forget it, Jake.

    [He removes his sunglasses]

    Mind Worker Cop: It's Cloudtown.

  • [Joy looks down into the memory dump and sees Bing Bong jumping for joy]

    Bing Bong: You made it! Go! Go save Riley!

    [Joy watches Bing Bong start to fade away]

    Bing Bong: Take her to the moon for me. Okay?

  • Clown's Joy: Six years of drama school... for this.

  • Dad: [Trying to feed Riley broccoli] Here we go. All right, open.

    Joy: Hmm... this looks new.

    Fear: Think it's safe?

    Sadness: What is it?

    Disgust: Okay, caution, there is a dangerous smell, people. Hold on, what is that? That is not brightly colored or shaped like a dinosaur, hold on guys... it's... broccoli!

    [presses buttons]

    Riley: Yukee!

    [flips bowl of broccoli on Dad]

    Disgust: Well, I just saved our lives. Yeah, you're welcome.

    Dad: Riley, if you don't eat your dinner you're not gonna get any dessert.

    Anger: Wait, did he just say we couldn't have dessert?

    [paces angrily]

    Anger: So that's how you wanna play it, old man? No dessert? Oh sure, we'll eat our dinner, right after you eat THIS!

    [presses buttons]

    Riley: [starts crying and screaming]

    Dad: Riley, Riley, here comes an airplane.

    Anger: Oh, airplane. We got an airplane, everybody.

    JoyFearSadnessDisgust: Ooooh!

    [Riley eats broccoli]

  • Fear: All right! We did not die today, I call that an unqualified success.

  • Joy: Hey, look! The Golden Gate Bridge! Isn't that great? It's not made out of solid gold like we thought, which is kind of a disappointment, but still!

    Fear: I sure am glad you told me earthquakes are a myth, Joy. Otherwise I'd be terrified right now!

    Joy: Uh... yeah...

  • Anger: We should lock the door and scream that curse word we know. It's a good one!

  • Anger: [after Joy and Sadness are ejected] Can I say that curse word now?

  • Fear: [Watching Riley's dream] Let me guess, we have no pants on.

    Girl: Hey look! She came to school with no pants on!

    Fear: Called it!

  • Joy: Oh no! These Facts and Opinions look so similar!

    Bing Bong: Don't worry about it. Happens all the time.

  • [Riley is on the verge of tears after attempting to run away back to Minnesota after feeling very homesick]

    Riley: I... I know you don't want me to, but... I miss home. I miss Minnesota. You need me to be happy, but I want my old friends, and my hockey team. I wanna go home. Please don't be mad.

    [Riley's mother and father stare sadly at their daughter]

    Mom: Oh, sweetie...

    Dad: We're not mad. You know what? I miss Minnesota too. I miss the woods where we took hikes.

    Mom: And the backyard where we used to play.

    Dad: Spring Lake, where you used to skate.

    [Riley breaks down in tears]

    Dad: Come here.

    [Riley, her mother, and her father all embrace in a group hug, consoling Riley]

  • Sadness: I'm too sad to walk. Just give me a few... hours.

  • Anger: This is ridiculous! We can't even get a good night's sleep anymore. Time to take action!

    [Anger grabs an idea bulb from the shelf]

    Anger: Stupid Mom and Dad. If they hadn't moved us, none of this would have happened. Who's with me?

    [Anger gestures the idea to Fear]

    Fear: Um... mmmmmmmmm... Nnnnnnnn... no.

    [Anger gestures the idea to Disgust]

    Disgust: ...Yeah, okay. Let's do it.

    [Anger puts the idea bulb into the console. Outside, Riley gets the idea and opens up her laptop]

    Anger: She took it. There is no turning back.

    Disgust: So... how are we going to get to Minnesota from here?

    Anger: Well, why don't we go down to the elephant lot and rent an elephant?

    Fear: Hey! That sounds nice!

    Anger: WE'RE TAKING THE BUS, NITWIT!

    [Riley is looking up bus information on the San Francisco Greyhound Bus website]

    Anger: There is a bus leaving tomorrow. Perfect!

    Disgust: A ticket costs money. How do we get money?

    Anger: Mom's purse.

    [Disgust gasps in horror]

    Disgust: You wouldn't!

    Anger: Oh, but I would. Where was it we saw it last?

    [Anger recalls a memory of where the purse was. However, the memory of the Triple Dent Gum commercial comes up and its annoying song begins to play. Anger immediately becomes annoyed and slams on the console, startling Fear]

    Anger: NO!

  • [as Riley is about to become permanently depressed, Joy and Sadness arrive back at Headquarters by flinging themselves into the window. They manage to hold on for dear life]

    Disgust: It's Joy!

    [Anger runs off to grab a chair]

    Anger: Stand back!

    [Anger violently throws the chair at the window, to no avail]

    Disgust: That worked.

    [Anger begins to get irritated and his head begins to smoulder]

    Anger: Well, what would you do if you're so smart?

    [Disgust smiles, realizing the opportunity]

    Disgust: I'd tell you, but you're too dumb to understand.

    Anger: WHAT?

    Disgust: Of course your tiny brain is confused. Guess I'LL just have to dumb it down to your level!

    [as Anger's head begins to smoulder even more, he looks at Disgust in complete rage]

    Disgust: Sorry I don't speak moron as well as you, but lemme try! Duuuuuhhhhhh!

    [Anger begins to scream in rage as flames erupt from the top of his head]

    Anger: ARRRRRRRRRRHHHHHHHHHHH!

    [Disgust flips on a visor helmet and holds Anger against the window. The flames shooting out of the top of his head break the window. Fear and Disgust help Joy and Sadness inside]

  • [first lines]

    Joy: Do you ever look at someone and wonder, "What is going on inside their head?" Well, I know. Well, I know Riley's head.

  • [Joy makes Riley laugh for the first time]

    Joy: [voiceover] It was amazing! Just Riley and me, forever.

    [Riley suddenly starts crying]

    Joy: [voiceover] Um, for thirty-three seconds.

    [Joy looks down, and sees Sadness operating Riley's control panel]

    Sadness: I'm Sadness.

    Joy: Oh, hello! Uh, I'm Joy. So, could I just... If you could... I just wanna fix that. Thanks.

    [Joy nudges Sadness aside and tries to push the button, only for Sadness to nudge back and push the button again]

    Joy: [voiceover] And that was just the beginning! Headquarters only got more crowded from there.

  • [Anger has just gotten an idea to make Riley happy again]

    Anger: Wait a minute. WAIT A MINUTE!

    [He goes over to the shelf and browses for a second before grabbing an idea bulb]

    Anger: AH-HA! Ho ho ho!

    Fear: What is it?

    Anger: Oh nothing. Just the best idea ever!

    Disgust: What?

    Anger: All the good core memories were made in Minnesota. Ergo, we go back to Minnesota and make more. TA DA!

    Fear: Wait wait wait, you're saying we... run away?

    Anger: Well, I wouldn't call it that, I'd call it the "Happy Core Memory Development Program"!

    Fear: You can't be serious!

    Anger: Hey! Our life was perfect until Mom and Dad decided to move to... San Fran-Stinktown!

    Fear: But... But I mean, it's just so drastic...

    Anger: Need I remind you of how great things were there?

    [Anger walks over to the console and begins typing to call up a memory]

    Anger: Our room... Our backyard... Our friends!

    [a memory comes up. It is the TripleDent Gum commercial. Its annoying jingle begins to play]

    Anger: DID I ASK FOR THE GUM COMMERCIAL?

    [Anger slams down on the console, ending the memory's playback abruptly]

    Anger: Anyway, it was better, that's my point.

  • [Joy begins the new day by waking up all the emotions with an accordion]

    Joy: Hello! Did I wake you?

    Anger: Did you have to play that?

    Joy: Well, I have to practice. And I don't think of it as playing so much as hugging.

    [Joy lovingly hugs the accordion before tossing it away. She rushes down the stairs in excitement]

    Joy: Okay, first day of school! Very, very exciting! I was up late last night figuring out a new plan. Here it is.

    [Fear walks by writing on a notepad]

    Joy: Fear! I need a list of all the possible negative outcomes on the first day at a new school.

    Fear: Way ahead of you there. Does anyone know how to spell "meteor?"

    [Disgust walks by putting on makeup]

    Joy: Disgust! Make sure Riley stands out today... but also blends in.

    Disgust: When I'm through, Riley will look so good the other kids will look at their own outfits and barf.

    Joy: Joy!

    [Joy steps aside and begins to talk to "herself"]

    Joy: Yes, Joy?

    Joy: You'll be in charge of the console, keeping Riley happy all day long. And may I add I love your dress, it's adorable.

    [Joy begins to happily twirl around]

    Joy: Oh, This ol' thing? Thank you so much, I love the way it twirls...

  • Sadness: Aww, participation award.

  • Disgust: What's "poo-ber-tee"?

  • [Joy and Bing Bong have fallen into the Memory Dump and are suck down there, doomed to be forgotten forever. Joy tried fruitlessly to climb up the piles of old memories to get out]

    Bing Bong: Joy? Joy, what are you doing, would ya stop it, please?

    [Joy ignores his pleas and keeps trying to get out, once again, to no avail]

    Bing Bong: DON'T YA GET IT JOY? WE'RE STUCK DOWN HERE! We're forgotten...

    [Joy pauses to realize her situation. In the background, the discarded sad core memory of Riley breaking down into tears on her first day at school begins to play]

    Riley: [in the memory orb] We... used to play tag... and stuff...

    [Joy walks over to the memory, and holds it sombrely]

    Riley: [in the memory orb] But... everything is different now. Since we moved...

    [the memory keeps playing the "video" of Riley's emotional breakdown at school. Joy keeps staring at the memory orb, in complete helpless despair. She sits down and begins to stifle tears. The sound of a discarded memory of Riley happily coloring as a toddler begins to play next to Joy, who picks it up and looks at it with a sad smile before tearing up]

    Joy: Do you remember how she used to stick her tongue out when she was colouring?

    [Joy continues to fight back tears. She picks up another memory orb, this time of a younger Riley telling a story to her parents]

    Joy: I could listen to her stories, all day...

    [Joy picks up another memory of Riley playing in her backyard as a toddler. Joy's eyes well up with tears, but she keeps holding back]

    Joy: I just wanted Riley to be happy...

    [Joy picks up the sad core memory of Riley crying in school. As he looks at it, she begins to sob, and completely breaks down into hopeless tears while Bing Bong sadly looks on. Joy's tears fall onto the happy memory orb of Riley after the Prairie Dog hockey game. As Joy wipes the tear off of it, she scrolls through the memory to see it was previously a sad memory turned happy. The sad portion consists of Riley sitting sadly with her parents on a tree branch. Curiously, Joy "rewinds" the memory to the point where Mom and Dad came to Riley to comfort her. Joy begins to hear Sadness's description of the memory in her head]

    Sadness: [v.o] It was the day the Prairie Dogs lost the big playoff game. Riley missed the winning shot, she felt awful. She wanted to quit.

    [Joy scrolls through the memory to see the blue sad memory of her and her parents turn a happy yellow when Riley's friends come to cheer her on]

    Joy: Sadness... Mom and Dad... the team. They came to help... because of Sadness.

  • Joy: Hey! Hey, look at me. Did you mean what you said before?

    Riley's Imaginary Boyfriend: I would die for Riley. I would die for Riley.

    Joy: Yeah, yeah, okay, haircut. Time to prove it!

    [stuffs him in a bag]

  • Bing Bong: D, A, N, G, E, R, SHORTCUT!

  • Sadness: Remember the funny movie where the dog died?

  • Anger: [Upon seeing the bumper-to-bumper traffic in San Francisco] These are my kind of people!

  • [last lines]

    Joy: [narrating] We've been through a lot lately, that's for sure. But we still love our girl. She has great new friends, a great new house. Things couldn't be better. After all, Riley's twelve now. What could happen?

  • Disgust: Okay, we've got a group of cool girls at 2 o'clock.

    Joy: How do you know?

    Disgust: Double ears pierced, infinity scarf.

    Joy: Whoa, is she wearing eye shadow?

    Disgust: Yeah, we wanna be friends with them.

    Joy: Let's go talk to them.

    Disgust: Are you kidding? We're not talking to them. We want them to like us!

    Joy: Oh, yeah. Wait, what?

  • Mom: Your dad's under a lot of pressure, but if you and I can keep smiling, it would be a big help. We can do that for him. Right?

  • [Riley accidentally knocks into a boy at a hockey rink, causing him to drop his drink, which she picks up for him]

    Riley: Sorry.

    [the boy's emotions freak out, with an alarm sounding, "Girl. Girl. Girl."]

    Riley: Uh... Okay. Bye.

  • [Riley's Mind World has expanded]

    Fear: Hey, I'm liking this new view.

    Anger: Friendship Island has expanded. Glad they finally opened that Friendly Argument section.

    Sadness: I like Tragic Vampire Romance Island.

    Disgust: Fashion Island? Oh, everyone shut up.

    Fear: Boy Band Island? Hope that's just a phase.

    Joy: Say what you want, I think it's all beautiful.

    Fritz: All right. Here you go. Your new expanded console is up and runnin'.

    Disgust: Cool! Upgrade!

    Fear: Hey!

    [Fear touches a button for censoring]

    Fear: Whoops, wait. Did I just do that?

    Disgust: Hey, guys? What's pub-er-ty?

    Joy: I don't know. It's probably not important.

    Anger: Whoa, I have access to the entire curse word library! This new console is the - -!

    [Fear censors the curse word Anger said]

    Fear: Sorry. I did it again. My bad.

  • Joy: [Looking over the Memory Dump she's about to fall toward] This is a really bad idea! No, Joy. Think positive...

    [pauses]

    Joy: I'm positive this is crazy!

    [Falls toward a trampoline down below]

  • Joy: Sadness! Sadness? Come on, Sadness, where are you? Okay, if I were Sadness, where would I be?

    [as Sadness]

    Joy: Oh, everything is awful, and my legs don't work, and you have to drag me around while I touch all the...

    [she spots a row of memory orbs that Sadness has touched and follows it]

  • Disgust: [Seeing Riley about to eat a grape she dropped] Whoa, no way! We are not eating that.

    Joy: Disgust, it's fine. It passed the five-second rule.

    Disgust: The grape touched the ground. It's poison.

    Joy: Oh, come on. It barely touched the ground.

    Disgust: Wait, what? You know what else 'barely' touches the ground? Stray dogs!

    Joy: [wrestling the control lever back and forth with Disgust, causing Riley to stop and start putting the grape in her mouth] Hold on!

    Disgust: Toenail clippings! Roadkill! Hippies!

    Joy: No!

    Disgust: Dung beetles!

    Joy: Stop it!

    Fear: Uh, shouldn't we do something?

    Anger: Haha, no.

    Joy: It's a *grape*! It's not like we're eating broccoli.

    Disgust: Ugh, don't even go there.

    Joy: Or boogers.

    Disgust: You're evil!

    [she gags and runs off]

    Joy: Or dog food.

    Disgust: [distantly] Shut your mouth!

    [Joy pulls the lever causing Riley to pop the grape in her mouth]

  • Cool Girl's Emotions: Being cool is exhausting.

  • [as Riley lies in her sleeping bag, a truck loudly drive by outside. The headlights can be seen shining through the room. Riley hides under the sleeping bag in fear]

    Fear: What was that? Was it a bear? It's a bear!

    Disgust: There are no bears in San Francisco!

    Anger: I saw a really hairy guy. He looked like a bear.

    Fear: Oh, I'm so jumpy, my nerves are shot!

    Disgust: Ew, I don't want to hear about your nerves!

    Anger: I'll tell you what it is. This move has been a bust.

    Fear: That's what I've been telling you guys! There are at least 37 things for Riley to be scared of right now!

    Disgust: The smell alone is enough to make her gag.

    Anger: I can't believe Mom and Dad moved us here!

    Joy: Look, I get it. You guys have concerns. But we've been through worse! Tell you what: let's make a list of all the things Riley should be HAPPY about!

    Anger: Fine. Let's see... this house stinks, our room stinks...

    Disgust: Pizza is weird here...

    Sadness: Our friends are back home...

    Fear: And all of our stuff is in the missing van!

    Joy: Oh c'mon, it could be worse...

    Disgust: Yeah, Joy. We could be lying on the dirty floor. In a bag.

    Joy: Okay, I admit it, we had a rough start. But think of all the good things that...

    Anger: No, Joy. There's absolutely no reason for Riley to be happy right now. Let us handle this.

    Fear: I say we skip school tomorrow and lock ourselves in the bedroom.

    Disgust: We have no clean clothes. I mean, no one should see us.

    Sadness: Yeah, we could cry until we can't breathe.

    Anger: We should lock the door and scream that curse word we know. It's a good one!

  • Subconscious Guard Frank: My hat feels loose.

    Subconscious Guard Dave: L, let me see.

    Subconscious Guard Frank: You got my hat? or, or is that your hat?

    Subconscious Guard Dave: Yeah, It's my hat.

    Subconscious Guard Frank: You sure? I don't know, look in the label.

    Subconscious Guard Dave: Yeah it says "My hat".

    Subconscious Guard Frank: Wait, it, it says "My hat"?

    Subconscious Guard Dave: "My hat" it says.

    Subconscious Guard Frank: That's what I wrote in my hat.

    Subconscious Guard Dave: What are you talking about?

    Subconscious Guard Frank: You've got my hat on.

    Subconscious Guard Dave: Okay, but it's my handwriting.

    Subconscious Guard Dave: [a few minutes go by inside the room where they keep Riley's darkest fears] Okay, but, it's my handwriting.

    Subconscious Guard Frank: No it isn't. That's my handwrit... I wrote that!

    Subconscious Guard Dave: No, but this one's my handwriting.

  • Mom: The drive out was pretty fun. What was your favourite bit?

    Anger: Spitting out the car window!

    Disgust: Definitely not when Dad was singing.

    Fear: Wearing a seat belt!

  • [Sadness goes over to Bing Bong, who is sitting at the edge of the Memory Dump dejectedly]

    Sadness: I'm sorry they took your rocket. They took something you loved.

    Bing Bong: It's gone. Forever.

    Joy: Sadness! Don't make him feel worse!

    Sadness: [to Joy] Sorry.

    Bing Bong: It's all I had left of Riley.

    Sadness: I bet you and Riley had great adventures.

    Bing Bong: [choking up] Oh, they were wonderful. Once we flew back in time. We had breakfast twice that day.

    Joy: [annoyed] Sadness!

    Sadness: It sounds amazing. I bet Riley liked it.

    Bing Bong: She did. We were best friends.

    Sadness: Yeah. It's sad.

    [Bing Bong hugs Sadness tightly and sobs]

    Bing Bong: I'm okay now. Come on. The train station is this way.

  • Jangles: Who's the birthday girl?

    [Fear screams like a little girl and faints]

  • Bing Bong: We're taking the Train of Thought.

    Joy: The Train! Of course. That is so much faster, but how do we catch it?

    Bing Bong: Well, it kind of goes all over the place.

  • Bing Bong: I blow a mean nose.

  • [Very last Lines]

    [the dog sees the man having a nibble of the pepperoni pizza from Yeast of Eden. We zoom into the Dog's HQ]

    Translated Subtitle: [Dog's Joy] I smell food.

    Translated Subtitle: [Dog's Disgust] The man has food.

    Translated Subtitle: [Dog's Fear] Get the food.

    [the Dog's Emotions, including his Sadness and Anger, all press the buttons to cause there dog to start chasing any toward the Pizza Man]