Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

Jeremy Irons: Alfred

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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.

• 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.

• 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?

• Alfred : Master Wayne, since the age of seven you've been into the art of deception like Mozart to the harpsichord, but you've never been too hot at lying to me.

• 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.

• Alfred : [looking at an empty wine bottle]  I hope the next generation of Waynes won't inherit an empty wine cellar. Not that there's likely to be a next generation...

• 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...

• Alfred : Thermal imaging is showing me two dozen hostiles on the third floor. Why don't I drop you off on the second?

• Alfred : Master Wayne.

  Batman : Alfred.

  Alfred : I'm sorry for listening in but I've tracked the Russian's phone to a warehouse near the port. You're locked onto it.

  Batman : I don't deserve you, Alfred.

  Alfred : No, sir, you don't.

• 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...

• Alfred : [Looking at an empty wine bottle]  I hope the next generation of Wayne's won't inherit an empty wine cellar. Not that there's likely to be a next generation...