Ben Affleck: Bruce Wayne, Batman
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Quotes
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Bruce Wayne : We're criminals, Alfred. We've always been criminals. Nothing's changed.
Alfred : Oh, yes it has, sir. Everything's changed. Men fall from the sky, the gods hurl thunderbolts, innocents die. That's how it starts, sir. The fever, the rage, the feeling of powerlessness that turns good men... cruel.
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Batman : I bet your parents taught you that you mean something, that you're here for a reason. My parents taught me a different lesson, dying in the gutter for no reason at all... They taught me the world only makes sense if you force it to.
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Clark Kent : Civil liberties are being trampled on in your city; good people living in fear.
Bruce Wayne : Don't believe everything you hear, son.
Clark Kent : I've seen it, Mr. Wayne. He thinks he's above the law.
Bruce Wayne : The Daily Planet criticizing those who think they're above the law is a little hypocritical, wouldn't you say? Considering every time your hero saves a cat out of a tree, you write a puff piece editorial about an alien who, if he wanted to, could burn the whole place down. There wouldn't be a damn thing we can do to stop it.
Clark Kent : Most of the world doesn't share your opinion, Mr. Wayne.
Bruce Wayne : Maybe it's that Gotham City and me... we just have a bad history with freaks dressed like clowns.
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Bruce Wayne : Still working? You're getting slow in your old age, Alfred.
Alfred : It comes to us all, Master Wayne. Even you've got too old to die young, though not for lack of trying.
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Alfred : You're gonna go to war?
Bruce Wayne : That son of a bitch brought the war to us two years ago. Jesus, Alfred, count the dead... thousands of people. What's next? Millions? He has the power to wipe out the entire human race, and if we believe there's even a one percent chance that he is our enemy we have to take it as an absolute certainty... and we have to destroy him.
Alfred : But he is not our enemy!
Bruce Wayne : Not today. Twenty years in Gotham, Alfred; we've seen what promises are worth. How many good guys are left? How many stayed that way?
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Batman : You're not brave. Men are brave.
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Batman : You're not brave... men are brave. You say that you want to help people, but you can't feel their pain... their mortality... It's time you learn what it means to be a man.
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Bruce Wayne : You don't know me, but I've known a few women like you.
Diana Prince : Oh, I don't think you've ever known a woman like me.
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Batman : It's okay, I'm a friend of your son's.
Martha Kent : [grins] I figured. The cape.
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[first lines]
Batman : There was a time above... a time before... there were perfect things... diamond absolutes. But things fall... things on earth. And what falls... is fallen. In the dream, it took me to the light. A beautiful lie.
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Alfred : You know you can't win this. It's suicide.
Bruce Wayne : I'm older now than my father ever was. This may be the only thing I do that matters.
Alfred : Twenty years of fighting criminals amounts to nothing?
Bruce Wayne : Criminals are like weeds, Alfred; pull one up, another grows in its place. This is about the future of the world. This is my legacy.
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Bruce Wayne : Excuse me, miss. The other night you took something that doesn't belong to you. Stealing's not polite.
Diana Prince : Is it stealing if you steal from another thief?
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Lex Luthor : Boys! Mm, Bruce Wayne meets Clark Kent. Ah, I love it! I love bringing people together! How are we?
[shakes Bruce's hand]
Bruce Wayne : Lex.
Lex Luthor : Hello. Good.
[turns to Clark]
Lex Luthor : Hi, hello.
[shakes Clark's hand]
Lex Luthor : Lex. It is a pleasure... Ow! Wow, that is a good grip! You should not pick a fight with this person.
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Bruce Wayne : All the circuses back east, burying an empty box.
Diana Prince : They don't know how to honor him, except as a soldier.
Bruce Wayne : I've failed him... in life. I won't fail him in death. Help me find the others like you.
Diana Prince : Perhaps they don't want to be found.
Bruce Wayne : They will. And they'll fight. We have to stand together.
Diana Prince : A hundred years ago I walked away from mankind, from a century of horrors. Man made a world where standing together is impossible.
Bruce Wayne : 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.
[scene of funeral ceremony and graffiti: IF YOU SEEK HIS MONUMENT LOOK AROUND YOU]
Diana Prince : The others like me. Why did you say they'll have to fight?
Bruce Wayne : Just a feeling.
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Diana Prince : A hundred years ago I walked away from mankind; from a century of horrors... Men made a world where standing together is impossible.
Bruce Wayne : 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.
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Clark Kent : Mr. Wayne! Clark Kent, Daily Planet.
Bruce Wayne : Oh, my foundation's already issued a statement in support of, uh, books.
Clark Kent : I'm sorry?
Bruce Wayne : [watching Diana Prince walk away] Wow. Pretty girl, bad habit. Don't quote me, alright?
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Diana Prince : The others like me... Why did you say they'll have to fight?
Bruce Wayne : Just a feeling.
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Batman : Whatever you do, wherever you go, I will be watching you.
Lex Luthor : But the bell's already been rung.
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Superman : Luthor. He wanted your life for her's. She's losing time.
Lois Lane : The scout ship seems to be drawing power from the city. It's gotta be Lex.
Batman : They need you at that ship. I'll find her.
Superman : My mother needs me.
Batman : [stops him] Wait. I'll make you a promise: Martha won't die tonight.
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Bruce Wayne : I can't stay down here, Alfred.
Alfred : Go upstairs and socialize. Some young lady from Metropolis will make you honest.
[to self]
Alfred : In your dreams, Alfred...
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Wonder Woman : This thing, this creature, seems to feed on energy.
Superman : This thing is from another world. My world.
Wonder Woman : I've killed things from other worlds before.
Superman : [to Batman] Is she with you?
Batman : I thought she was with you.
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Anatoli Knyazev : Drop it. I said drop it! I'll kill her! Believe me, I'll do it!
Batman : I believe you.
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[Doomsday jumps in front of the Batwing]
Batman : Oh, shit.
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[Superman enters from the sky]
Batman : Well, here I am!
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Batman : [suffocating Superman with his foot on his throat] You were never a god. You were never even a man!
Superman : [hardly breathing] You're letting them kill Martha...
Batman : What does that mean? Why did you say that name?
Superman : Find him... Save Martha...
Batman : Why did you say that name? Martha? Why did you say that name? WHY DID YOU SAY THAT NAME?
Lois Lane : [enters running] It's his mother's name! It's his mother's name.
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Batman : Whatever you do, wherever you go, I'll be watching you!
[holds his bat-brand up to Luthor's face]
Lex Luthor : Oh, look at us. This is how it all caves in, civilization on the Wayne Manor's out the window. But who would believe me, I... I'm insane. I'm not even fit to stand trial.
Batman : That's right. We have hospitals who treat the mentally ill with compassion.
[Lex chuckles nervously]
Batman : But, that's not where you're going. I've arranged for you to get a transfer to Arkham Asylum in Gotham. I still have some friends there. They're expecting you.
Lex Luthor : But, the bell's already been rung... and they've heard it. Out in the dark, among the stars... Ding-dong, the god is dead.
[Batman punches his wall with a bat-brand mark]
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Wallace Keefe : Mr. Wayne! Mr. Wayne! I can't feel my legs! I can't feel my legs.
Bruce Wayne : We need help over here!
Wallace Keefe : [grabs Bruce] Help me. I can't feel my legs.
Bruce Wayne : You're gonna be okay, you hear me? Wallace? What do they call you, Wally? Huh?
Wallace Keefe : You're the boss, boss.
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Bruce Wayne : [comforting a crying girl] Don't worry, it'll be okay. I'll find your mommy for you. Where's your mommy.
[the girl points at a destroyed skyscraper, Bruce hugs her]
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Bruce Wayne : The house treats luck like an insult.
Anatoli Knyazev : Good luck for one is always his brother's misfortune.
Bruce Wayne : [in Russian] But all accounts are balances in the end.
Bruce Wayne : [back in English] Three nights with a Bolshoi ballerina, that line was all she taught me.
Anatoli Knyazev : Not all, I'm sure. Good evening.
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Bruce Wayne : Who are you?
Diana Prince : Someone interested in the same man you are.
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Bruce Wayne : I can't stay down here, Alfred.
Alfred : Go upstair and socialize. Some young lady from Metropolis will make you honest.
[Talking to himself]
Alfred : In your dreams, Alfred...
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Bruce Wayne : [about the Sword of Alexander] It's a fake. The real one was sold in '98 on the black market. And now it hangs...
Diana Prince : Over the bed of the Sultan of Hajar.
