Batman Begins (2005) - 20 quotes

Alfred: You start pretending to have fun, you might even have a little by accident.

Prisoner: You're in Hell, little man! And I am the Devil!

Bruce Wayne: You're not the Devil. You're practice.

Police Officer: Why should I care what your name is? You're a criminal!

Bruce Wayne: I'm not a criminal!

Police Officer: Tell that to the guy who owns these! [Kicks a box labelled "Wayne Enterprises".]

Alfred Pennyworth: Actually it was Mr. Earle, he's taking the company public. He wanted to liquidate your majority sharehold. Those shares are worth quite a bit of money.

Bruce Wayne: It's a good thing I left everything to you then.

Alfred Pennyworth: Quite so, sir. And you can borrow the Rolls if you like. Just bring it back with a full tank.

[Lucius Fox has just shown Bruce Wayne the bulletproof nomex survival suit]

Lucius Fox: So what do you want with it, Mr Wayne?

Bruce Wayne: I want to borrow it. For spelunking. You know, cave-diving.

Fox: You get a lot of gunfiredown in those caves?

Dr. Jonathan Crane: He's here.

Cop: Who?

Dr. Jonathan Crane: The Bat...man.

Police Officer: Can you at least tell me what it looks like? [Batmobile thunders by.] Never mind...

Bruce Wayne: I seek... a means to fight injustice. To turn fear against those who prey on the fearful.

Alfred: Why bats, Master Wayne?

Bruce Wayne: Bats frighten me. It's time my enemies shared my dread.

Alfred: Why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves up.

Batman: It's not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me.

Bruce Wayne: I'm going to show the people of Gotham that the city doesn't belong to the criminals and the corrupt. People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy. I can't do this as Bruce Wayne. A man is just flesh and blood and can be ignored or destroyed. But as a symbol... as a symbol, I can be incorruptible, everlasting.

Gordon: I never got to thank you.

Batman: And you'll never need to.

Batman: I won't kill you... but I don't have to save you.

[Bruce Wayne is trapped under a burning beam.]

Alfred: What good are all those push-ups if you can't lift a bloody log?

Alfred: Time to get up.

Bruce Wayne: Bats are nocturnal.

Alfred: That may be, but even for billionaire playboys, 3:00 is pushing it.

Detective Flass: That's all I know, I swear to God!

Batman: SWEAR TO ME!

Bruce Wayne: A guy who dresses as a bat clearly has issues.

[The batmobile screeches to a halt.]

Lucius Fox: So what you do you think?

Bruce Wayne: Does it come in black?

Bruce Wayne: They told me there was nothing out there, nothing to fear. But the night my parents were murdered I caught a glimpse of something. I've looked for it ever since. I went around the world, searched in all the shadows. And there is something out there in the darkness, something terrifying, something that will not stop until it gets revenge. Me.