Summary

• The best Inside Out quotes highlight the humor, heart, and insight that make this one of Pixar's best movies. It has clever and thoughtful stories that resonate with audiences.
• Inside Out 2 will continue the story and introduce new and challenging emotions for Riley as a teenager. However, the first movie stands on its own as a wonderful and rewatchable film.
• The quotes from Inside Out show the importance of embracing all emotions, including sadness, and how they can lead to personal growth and understanding.

The best Inside Out quotes show the humor, heart, and insight that makes this one of the best Pixar movies. The movie centers around a little girl named Riley, but the real focus is on the emotions that operate inside her, like Joy, Sadness, and Anger, who help her deal with the experiences of growing up. The movie won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature and became one of Pixar's highest-grossing movies. It features the funny, clever, and thoughtful stories the animation studio creates when it is at its best and the Inside Out quotes highlight all those aspects.

Inside Out 2 continues the idea of the first movie, adding new and challenging emotions to Riley's head as she deals with the struggles of being a teenager. While it is fun to see the next stage of Riley's emotional development, Inside Out stands on its own as a wonderful movie that is still a joy to revisit years later. The most memorable quotes from the movie show how the inventive premise grew into a thoughtful and important movie about human emotion.

25 "I Sure Am Glad You Told Me Earthquakes Are A Myth, Joy."

Fear

When Riley's family moves to San Francisco, it is an adjustment for all the emotions. Certainly, the most unnerved by the move to a brand new city with many unknown elements is Fear (Bill Hader). Fear has more than a few worries about the whole situation while the rest of the emotions look to Joy to smooth things over. However, he takes solace in the fact that earthquakes are not a real thing, or so he has been told.

As Joy takes on her natural leadership role, she seems to have decided that keeping the truth about certain things from Fear would help everyone. Bill Hader's relieved delivery of the line is hilarious, and it is fun to imagine what his reaction would be when he finally does experience his first earthquake in San Francisco.

24 "Joy, For The Last Time, She Cannot Live In A Cookie."

Disgust

Joy is such a lovable character, but one of the key lessons she learns in Inside Out is that her best intentions are not always the best way forward. She has such a bright and happy view of things that she can get carried away - right from reality. In the hopes of distracting everyone with some fun stuff when they are all overwhelmed, Joy goes over all the imagined ideas of what their new house could look like. There's one with slides, a tree house, and more.

Joy reveals her favorite being a fairy-tale-like house made out of various desserts with walls of gingerbread, which Disgust correctly points out is not a great idea. This Inside Out quote is an early hint that, despite Joy's enthusiasm, she is not always the emotion that should be guiding everything.

23 "Is It Garbage Day?"

Father's Anger

While much of the action in Inside Out takes place inside Riley's head, some of the funniest moments are when the audience gets a brief glimpse inside the heads of some other characters. This comes into play as Riley's parents try to deal with her sadness. While eating dinner, Riley's mom gives Riley's dad a signal to address Riley's behavior. However, a glimpse inside his head reveals none of his emotions were paying attention, since they were reliving his memory of a good game, and they desperately try to guess what she might be wanting from him.

Each of the emotions has their own guess for what Riley's mom might have said to their person, and Anger goes straight for something that he thinks usually makes her mad - forgetting to take out the trash. It is the kind of humor that proves Pixar movies are for adults just as much as for younger audiences.

22 “On A Scale Of 1 To 10, I Give This Day An F.”

Disgust

Disgust plays an interesting role in Inside Out. Sure, she’s there to rate whether a food Riley is about to eat is disgusting or not, but she’s also, as Riley’s emotions haven’t developed as far as they will in Inside Out 2, there to provide a layer of judgment. She’s the one most interested in Fashion Island of the emotions, after all, and the one who knows whether or not Riley should approach the popular kids in school.

She is also the one who gives this fantastic quote. While scale rankings from 1 to 10 are pretty well known as 1 being the worst and 10 being the best, Disgust makes her point by using the scale as a frame of reference for Riley’s day, and then throwing it all out to offer a grade of an F. It’s something both the adults and the kids in the audience will get with a laugh.

21 “What Was That? I Though You Said We Were Gonna ‘Act Casual’.”

Fear

When Joy and Sadness disappear into Riley’s memory banks, Anger, Fear, and Disgust are left in control of Riley. Because of their specialties, that definitely makes Riley act differently than when Joy is at the helm. Fear doesn’t often take the reins, preferring to allow Anger and Disgust do that, be he is there to observe and be just at the back of Riley’s mind, such as when Disgust takes over following Riley’s first day at her new school where everything goes wrong.

Though Disgust claims that they will just help Riley act casual to prevent her parents from learning how bad the day was, that really isn’t Disgust’s style, and it causes Riley to be heavily sarcastic and unhappy, snapping at her parents, and surprising Fear. Since Riley has never really acted that way with her parents, it makes sense that there would be a hint of fear there while Disgust takes over.

20 "I'm Positive You'll Get Lost In There!"

Sadness

Part of what makes Inside Out one of the most rewatchable Pixar movies is seeing how it built up to that impactful ending. Sadness is initially seen as a troublesome character who makes everything harder for Joy and is a constant pessimist. She touches memories made by Joy and makes them sad without understanding why she's doing it. She slows Joy down when they're both stuck outside of the emotional headquarters, tinting long-term memories with sadness as she does.

However, when looking back at the movie, it is clear that Sadness was often right and what was initially seen as pessimism was actually just a more rational approach than what Joy had in mind. Sometimes, Riley's going to make sad memories even if Joy doesn't want her to. When Sadness advises against taking a shortcut, Joy tells her to be positive, leading to this wonderful comeback.

19 "They Came To Help… Because Of Sadness."

Joy

Inside Out is a great children's movie not just because it is bright and fun, but also because of the very worthwhile messages at its core. While animated movies deal with serious issues at times, Inside Out might achieve it better than any other movie. The big revelation comes when Joy realizes that sadness is not something that Riley needs to avoid, but something she can embrace at times to feel the love of her family and friends.

It is a worthwhile message for young viewers as it teaches them not to cover up emotions but rather embrace them, so they can be understood and dealt with more effectively. It's okay for Riley's memories to be tinged with sadness at times. As Joy sees, when she and Sadness finally work together, Riley's memories and the emotions attached to them become more complex, with Joy and Sadness both attached to the same memories.

18 "Take Her To The Moon For Me. Okay?"

Bing Bong

Inside Out is one of the saddest Pixar movies and a lot of that has to do with the character of Bing Bong. As Riley’s childhood imaginary best friend, he’s become a part of her past, something only vaguely ed. Ultimately, Bing Bong sacrifices his own existence so that Joy can escape from the Memory Dump. His parting words to Joy are a reminder of just how much he loves Riley.

While it is an imaginary character, there is something beautiful and heartbreaking about him accepting that his time in Riley's life is done and that his parting moment is the hope that she keeps a little bit of that child's imagination, even if he's not a part of it. Riley is growing up, and she might not have the need of an imaginary friend to keep her entertained, but that doesn't mean she has to be rid of all of her imagination.

17 “Called It!”

Fear

One of the most interesting parts of Inside Out is the audience getting to see just what roles the different emotions play for Riley. Fear, for the most part, doesn’t control Riley’s life. Instead, the emotion is relegated to watching Riley’s dreams, or more accurately, nightmares, play out, and ing the other emotions in small ways. Fear watching the dreams, however, is one of the best parts of the movie, showing how Riley’s emotions are working even when she’s asleep.

Fear treats Riley’s dreams like a human being would treat a night binge-watching shows on streaming. He has his favorites, but he also has ones that bring out his terror. It’s clear that he’s not particularly eager to make Riley scared of certain dreams that have become commonplace for her, like her ending up in school without the right amount of clothing on.

Fear: Let me guess, we have no pants on.

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

Fear: Called it!

That type of dream is so incredibly common for human beings, a way of the subconscious manifesting fear (or even anxiety, an emotion not seen until Inside Out 2). It makes perfect sense that Fear would have seen this particular dream like a television rerun.

16 "Crying Helps Me Slow Down And Obsess Over The Weight Of Life's Problems."

Sadness

While Joy is obviously the main character of the film — full of all the infectious charms that only Amy Poehler can deliver — Sadness also proves to be a remarkable character. Sadness is also the source of many of the best Inside Out quotes. Because she is so consumed with feeling down, many of her lines are played for laughs as Joy sees her as an obstacle to making sure Riley's life is a happy one.

However, she also delivers a lot of thought-provoking ideas about sadness, such as this one about the benefits of wallowing in that sad feeling. It serves as a reminder that, though sometimes it’s hard to accept, crying can be a useful means for someone to take a few moments out of their day to reflect, even about the darker aspects of human existence.