Wanna know how I got these scars???……..My father was a drinker….and a fiend….. So one night, he goes off crazier than usual. Mommy gets the kitchen knife to defend herself….He doesn’t like that. Not….one….bit…..So,… me watching, he takes the knife to her, laughing while he does it. He looks at me…. and he says “Why so serious?!”….He comes at me with the knife……”Why so serious?!!”…”Let’s put a smile on that face!!”……And……(looks at other gangster) Why so serious?
From The Dark Knight, Heath Ledger’s Academy Award-winning Joker has mobster Gambol savor his last moments on earth by regaling the frightened man with a story about his scars