30 Best Troy Baker Quotes

Ellie: [put a hat on the Triceratops skeleton] Joel! Look!
Joel: That is... a hat on a dinosaur.
Ellie: It's called a hatosaur.

Joel: [to Abby] Why don't you save whatever speech you've got rehearsed and get this over with?

Joel: [after Joel kills all the hunters in the bookstore] that was too damn close...
Ellie: To the edge of the universe and back, endure and survive...
Joel: excuse me?
Ellie: Savage Starlight, that comic I've been reading? It's what the hero says after a big battle.
Joel: Endure and survive?
Ellie: Yeah.
Joel: heh, okay...

Joel: We don't have to do this. You know that, right?
Ellie: What's the other option?
Joel: Go back to Tommy's. Just... be done with this whole thing.
Ellie: After all we've been through. I mean, everything that I've done.
[sighs wearily]
Ellie: It can't be for nothing. Look, I know you mean well, but there's no halfway with this. Once we're done, we'll go wherever you want. Okay?
Joel: Well, I ain't leavin' without you. Let's go wrap this up.

Joel: I've struggled... a long time with survivan'. & you- no matter what... you keep finding something to fight for. Now, I know that's not what you want to hear right now, but it's...
Ellie: Swear to me. Swear to me that everything you said about the fireflies is true.
Joel: I Swear.
Ellie: [after a long pause] Okay.

Ellie: [Ellie is dragged by David and James] Wait, wait!
James: Shut up!
[Ellie is slammed onto a table]
Ellie: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait! Don't! Don't do it! Please, don't do it! Please, don't! DON'T!
David: You had your chance.
[David angrily lifts meat cleaver into the air]
Ellie: I'M INFECTED! I'm infected... And now so are you.
[David notices Ellie's bite mark on his hand]

Ellie: We're here because you owe Joel some favors, and you can start by taking these off!
[referring to handcuffs dangling from her wrist]
Bill: I owe Joel some favors... is this some kind of joke?
Joel: I'll cut to the chase: I need a car.
Bill: Well, it is a joke. Joel needs a car! Well, if I had one that works, which I sure as hell don't, what makes you think I'd just give it to you? Huh? "Yeah sure, Joel, go ahead, take my car! Take all my food too, while you're at it!
Ellie: By the looks of it, you could lose some of that food.
Bill: [Points a knife at her] You listen to me, you little shit...
Ellie: No, fuck you! You handcuffed me!

Ellie: I stayed at a place like this, back in the Boston QZ.
Joel: [reading] "Military Preparatory School..."
Ellie: Yeah. Nice way of saying "orphanage." I wonder what happened to all these kids.
Joel: This place has been out for a good stretch, they ain't kids no more.
Ellie: Meaning they're either hunters trying to kill us, or they're dead.
Joel: Or they got away.
Ellie: But you don't believe that.
Joel: I believe in getting out of this city. C'mon.

Ellie: Hearing them talk, it's good to know they're scared of you.
Joel: Yeah, well, just try not to let your guard down.
Ellie: I'm just saying, I'm glad you're on my side.
[Joel doesn't respond]
Ellie: That was a compliment.
Joel: Okay.

Ellie: Ready for a joke? Bakers trade bread recipes on a need-to-know basis...
Joel: [Doesn't respond]
Ellie: ...like 'knead'.
Joel: Yeah, I get it.

Percy: You should be proud. Your son and daughter are leading the fight against the Chroma Conclave.
Syldor: [scoffs] You needn't spin false tales of their exploits. The very idea of Vax'ildan and Vex'ahlia standing up for the greater good is... well... rich.
Vax'ildan: You unbelievable prick.

Ellie: What is the leading cause of divorce in long-term marriages?
Joel: [sighs]
Ellie: A stalemate.
Joel: That's awful.
Ellie: ...You're awful.
Joel: Do you even understand what that means?
Ellie: Nope... It doesn't matter.

Joel: All the promises at sundown. I meant them like the rest.

Marlene: [as Joel wakes up from being knocked out by a soldier after Ellie nearly drowned] Welcome to the Fireflies. Sorry about the...
[gestures to her head]
Marlene: They didn't know who you were.
Joel: [worried] And Ellie?
Marlene: She's alright. They brought her back.
[Joel lays back down, visibly relieved]
Marlene: You came all this way. How'd you do it?
Joel: [sighs] It was her. She fought like hell to get here. Maybe it was meant to be.
Marlene: I lost most of my crew crossing the country. I pretty much lost everything. And then you show up, and somehow we find you just in time to save her. Maybe it was meant to be.
Joel: Take me to her.
Marlene: You don't have to worry about her anymore. We'll take care of...
Joel: I worry. Just... let me see her, please.
Marlene: You can't. She's being prepped for surgery.
Joel: The hell you mean, surgery?
Marlene: The doctors tell me the cordyceps, the growth inside her, has somehow mutated. It's why she's immune. Once they remove it, they'll be able to reverse-engineer a vaccine. A vaccine!
Joel: But it grows all over the brain.
Marlene: [smiles sadly] It does.
Joel: [realization dawns on Joel's face, then muted fury] Find someone else.
Marlene: There is no one else!
Joel: Listen, you are gonna show me where she-
[Marlene's bodyguard knocks Joel to the floor]
Marlene: Stop. I get it. But whatever it is you think you're going through right now, it is nothing to what I have been through. I knew her since she was born. I promised her mother I would look after her.
Joel: Then why are you letting this happen?
Marlene: Because this isn't about me! Or even her! There is no other choice here!
Joel: [scoffs, glaring daggers] Yeah. You keep telling yourself that bullshit.
Marlene: [regards him quietly for a moment] ... March him outta here. He tries anything, shoot him. Don't waste this gift, Joel.

Ellie: That girl is so skinny... I thought you had plenty of food in your time.
Joel: We did. Some just chose not to eat it.
Ellie: Why the hell not?
Joel: For looks.
Ellie: Pffft, that's stupid.

Ellie: I dreamt about flying the other night.
Joel: Oh yeah?
Ellie: Yeah.
Joel: Go on, tell me about it.
Ellie: So, I'm on this big plane full of people. And everyone is screaming and yelling 'cause the plane's going down. So I walk to the cockpit, open the door, but there's no pilot. I try to use the controls but... I obviously have no clue how to fly a plane. And right before we crash, I wake up. I've never been on a plane. Isn't that weird?
Joel: Hmpf. Well, you know, dreams are weird.

Ellie: Did you remember the joke?
Joel: What is the downside to eating a clock? It's time consuming.
Ellie: [laughs] That's so dumb.

Ellie: What did the mermaid wear to her math class?
Joel: [Annoyed] What?
Ellie: An algae-bra.
Joel: [scoffs] Terrible...
Ellie: Why did the scarecrow get a promotion?
Joel: Alright...
Ellie: Because he was outstanding... In his field.
Joel: That'll do.

Bill: Listen, are we square?
Joel: We're square.
Bill: Good. Now get the fuck out of my town.

Joel: [finding a pile of dead, bullet-ridden, bloodied corpses in a room, after trying to find sanctuary from human bandits that tried to kill them in Philadelphia] Fucking hunters. See, this could have been us.

Joel: Don't you have a plan B?
Bill: You're lucky you're still drawing breath! That was plan A, B, all the way to fucking Z!

Ellie: Did everyone have boats back then?
Joel: I had a sixty-foot yacht.
Ellie: Really?
Joel: No.

Shinnok: [First line]
[Shinnok is being tortured by Dark Raiden]
Shinnok: You should thank me, Raiden. Our battle changed you... for the better!
Raiden: [Electrocutes Shinnok] Be silent, Shinnok!
Shinnok: But you wear my amulet. Finally, you embrace the truth the Elder Gods deny. The truth I was cast out for speaking!
Raiden: The truth I embrace, Shinnok, is that mercy is wasted on those who defile Earthrealm. I will destroy our enemies before they destroy us... starting with you!
Shinnok: [laughs] How, Raiden? Not even you can kill an Elder God.
Raiden: [Raiden produces a lightning blade; before decapitating Shinnok] There are fates worse than death!

Ellie: That's gotta be hard. Leaving all of your stuff behind like that.
Joel: That ain't the hard part.

Erron: Truth be told it surprised me, putting down Kronika. Not bad for a scrawny kid from Wickett. Now that it's done, now what? I don't cotton to being Lord of Time, stuck on some island at the edge of nowhere. No, Erron Black likes being in the thick of it. Seems to me, time oughta stay all mashed up. It's been a hell of a ride. Gotta keep these thrills coming. Which means makin' sure no one gets a chance to screw this up. Once the hourglass gets dumped in the Sea of Blood, ain't no one ever shaping history again. What happens next? Hell if I know. And that's just the way I like it.

[last lines]
Ellie: You're such an asshole!
Joel: I'm not trying to...
Ellie: I was supposed to die in that hospital. My life would've fucking mattered. But you took that from me.
[Joel expresses his guilt for saving Ellie]
Joel: If somehow the Lord gave me a second chance at that moment... I would do it all over again.
Ellie: Yeah... I just... I don't think I can ever forgive you for that. But I would like to try.
Joel: I'd like that.
Ellie: Okay. I'll see you around.
Joel: Yep.

Joel: [after Ellie saves him from a hunter] Why didn't you just hang back like I told you to?
Ellie: Well, you're glad I didn't, right?
Joel: I'm glad I didn't get my head blown off by a goddamn kid.
Ellie: You know what? No. How about "Hey, Ellie. I know it wasn't easy, but it was either him or me, thanks for saving my ass." You got anything like that for me, Joel?

Ellie: Everyone I have cared for has either died or left me. Everyone - fucking except for you! So don't tell me I would be safer with somebody else, because the truth is I would just be more scared.
Joel: You're right... You're not my daughter, and I sure as hell ain't your dad. And we are going our separate ways.

Ellie: [about Tess, in horror] Holy shit... she's infected.
Tess: Joel...
Joel: Let me see it.
Tess: I didn't mean for this...
Joel: Show it to me!
[Tess resentfully jerks her shirt collar aside, revealing a festering bite on her clavicle]
Joel: Oh, Christ.
Tess: Oops, right?
[to Ellie]
Tess: Give me your arm!
[pulls Ellie's sleeve back, points at the month-old bite mark on her arm]
Tess: This was three weeks! I was bitten an hour ago, and it's already worse. This is fucking real, Joel! You have got to get this girl to Tommy's. He used to run with this crew, he'll know where to go.
Joel: No, no, no! That was your crusade, I am not doing that!
Tess: Yes, you are! Look... there's enough here that you have to feel some sort of obligation to me. So you get her to Tommy's!

Henry: [after Joel pummels him in a misunderstanding] Man, you hit hard.
Joel: Yeah, well, I was trying to kill you.