Michael Keaton in Batman (1989)
I’m not going to kill you. I want you to do me a favor. I want you to tell all your friends about me.
Which of the Batman quotes is your favorite?
I’m not going to kill you. I want you to do me a favor. I want you to tell all your friends about me.
When that light hits the sky… it’s not just a call. It’s a warning.
Bats frighten me. It’s time my enemies share my dread.
People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy and I can’t do that as Bruce Wayne. As a man, I’m flesh and blood, I can be ignored, I can be destroyed, but as a symbol… as a symbol I can be incorruptible, I can be everlasting.
It’s not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me.
What were you trying to prove? That deep down, everyone’s as ugly as you? You’re alone.
You’ll hunt me. You’ll condemn me. Set the dogs on me. Because that’s what needs to happen. Because sometimes the truth isn’t good enough. Sometimes people deserve more. Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded.
The idea was to be a symbol. Batman could be anybody. That was the point.
Tell me where the trigger is. Then you have my permission to die.
I’m real when it’s useful.
You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
Criminals aren’t complicated. We just need to figure out what he’s after.
Criminals are like weeds. Pull one up, another grows in its place.
I’m rich.
Vengeance isn’t power, anyone can take a life. But to give life, that’s true power.
You make the kill. But your pain doesn’t die with Harvey, it grows. So you run out into the night to find another face, and another, and another, until one terrible morning you wake up and realize that revenge has become your whole life. And you won’t know why.
Not all the heroes wear masks.
A hero can be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a young boy’s shoulders to let him know the world hadn’t ended.
I’m not afraid. I’m angry.
Men are still good. We fight. We kill. We betray one another. But we can rebuild. We can do better. We will. We have to.
I bought the bank.
I won’t kill you… but I won’t have to save you.
I’m both Bruce Wayne and Batman. Not because I have to be. Now, because I choose to be.
I don’t blend in at a family picnic.
This is why Superman works alone.
Why are all the gorgeous ones homicidal maniacs? Is it me?
Some days, you just can't get rid of a bomb.
Quick! To the Batmobile!