Batman Begins Quotes

Bruce Wayne : Everyone. Everybody. [ cinks his glass ]
Bruce Wayne : I, uh... I wanna thank you all for coming here tonight and drinking all of my booze. [ the guests laugh ]
Bruce Wayne : No, really. Uh... There's a thing about being a Wayne that... you're never short of a few freeloaders, like yourselves, to fill up your mansion with, so, here's to you people. Thank you.
Fredericks : That's enough, Bruce.
Bruce Wayne : Mm... I'm not finished. To all of you, uh, all you phonies, all of you two-faced friends, you sycophantic suck-ups who smile through your teeth at me, please leave me in peace. Please go. Stop smiling. It's not a joke. Please leave. The party's over. Get out.
Fredericks : The apple has fallen very far from the tree, Mr. Wayne.

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Batman : Blood. Take. Take poison. Blood poison. Poison. Poisonous.

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[ watching Bruce defeat Ducard ]
Ra's Al Ghul : Impressive.

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Carmine Falcone : [ feigning insanity ] Yeah, Doctor Crane, I can't take it anymore. It's all too much. "The walls are closing in." Blah, blah, blah. Couple more days of this food, it'll be true.
Dr. Jonathan Crane : What do you want?
Carmine Falcone : I want to know how you're gonna convince me to keep my mouth shut.
Dr. Jonathan Crane : About what? You don't know anything.
Carmine Falcone : I know you wouldn't want the police to take a closer look at those drugs they found. And I know about your experiments with the inmates of your nuthouse. See, I don't go into business with a guy without finding out his dirty secrets. And those goons you used - I own the muscle in this town. Now, I've been bringing your stuff in for months, so whatever he's planning, it's big, and I want in.
Dr. Jonathan Crane : Well, I already know what he'll say: that we should kill you.
Carmine Falcone : Even he can't get me in here. Not in my town.
Dr. Jonathan Crane : [ sighs, then matter-of-factly ] Would you like to see my mask? I use it in my experiments. Probably not very frightening to a guy like you, but these crazies, they can't stand it. [ he gets out a mask - a burlap sack stitched and altered to look like a scarecrow's head - and puts it on ]
Carmine Falcone : So when did the nut take over the nuthouse? [ Crane sprays a hallucinogenic gas into Falcone's face; he begins to scream in terror as the gas takes effect: Crane's voice is altered, and the mask appears to move like a real face ]
The Scarecrow : They scream and they cry, much as you're doing now. [ Cuts to later outside Falcone's cell. He is still screaming ]
Dr. Jonathan Crane : Well, he's not faking, not this one. I'll talk to the judge and see if I can get him moved to the secure wing

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Lucius Fox : [ Bruce Wayne is recovering after being poisoned by Scarecrow ] I analyzed your blood, isolating the receptor compounds and the protein-based catalyst.
Bruce Wayne : Am I meant to understand any of that?
Lucius Fox : Not at all, I just wanted you to know how hard it was. Bottomline I synthesised an antidote.
Bruce Wayne : Could you make more?
Lucius Fox : You planning on gassing yourself again, Mr Wayne?
Bruce Wayne : Well, you know how it is, Mr Fox. You're out at night, looking for kicks, someone's passing around the weaponized hallucinogens.
Lucius Fox : I'll bring what I have. The antidote should inoculate you for now.

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Alfred Pennyworth : [ to Bruce ] Batman may have made the front page, but Bruce Wayne got pushed to page eight. [ Bruce reads the headline: "Drunken Billionaire Burns Down Home." ]

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Bhutanese Prison Guard #1 : [ as Bruce Wayne is being pulled away from a prison rumble by the guards ] Solitary!
Bruce Wayne : Why?
Bhutanese Prison Guard #1 : For protection!
Bruce Wayne : I don't need protection!
Bhutanese Prison Guard #1 : Protection for them! [ shows the groaning prisoners Bruce has beaten up ]

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Carmine Falcone : Ignorance is bliss, my friend. Don't burden yourself with the secrets of scary people.

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Bruce Wayne : Gotham isn't beyond saving.

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Dr. Jonathan Crane : Would you like to see my mask? I use it in my experiments. [ opens his briefcase takes the Scarecrow mask out and holds it up ]
Dr. Jonathan Crane : Now, I'm probably not very frightening to a guy like you, but these crazies... they can't stand it.
Carmine Falcone : So when did the nut take over the nuthouse? [ Crane puts on the mask and releases a spray of fear toxin from his briefcase; Falcone screams ]
The Scarecrow : They scream and they cry. Much as you're doing now.

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Rachel Dawes : [ looking at the ruins of the burned down Wayne Manor ] What will you do?
Bruce Wayne : Rebuild it. Just the way it was, brick for brick.
Alfred Pennyworth : *Just* the way it was, sir?
Bruce Wayne : Yeah. Why?
Alfred Pennyworth : I thought this might be a good opportunity for improving the foundations.
Bruce Wayne : In the south-east corner?
Alfred Pennyworth : Precisely, sir.

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Ra's al Ghul : Have you finally learned to do what is necessary?
Bruce Wayne : I won't kill you, but I don't have to save you.

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[ first lines ]
Bruce Wayne - age 8 : Rachel, let me see! Can I see?

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[ as Wayne Manor is burning down ]
Bruce Wayne : What have I done, Alfred? Everything my family... my father built...
Alfred Pennyworth : The Wayne legacy is more than bricks and mortar, sir.
Bruce Wayne : I wanted to save Gotham, I failed
Alfred Pennyworth : Why do we fall sir? So we might learn to pick ourselves up
Bruce Wayne : You still haven't given up on me?
Alfred Pennyworth : Never

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Flass : What are you waiting for?
Uniformed Policeman #1 : Back-up. [ Flass looks around - there are at least two dozen uniformed officers around ]
Flass : Back-up?
Uniformed Policeman #1 : The Batman's in there. SWAT's on the way, but if you want to go in now, I'll be right behind you, sir. [ pause ]
Flass : [ to Gordon, shrugging ] SWAT's on the way.

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Bruce Wayne : What's that?
Lucius Fox : The Tumbler? Oh, you wouldn't be interested in that.

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Alfred Pennyworth : Why do we fall, sir? So that we might learn to pick ourselves up.

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Bruce Wayne : [ on rooftop inspecting the Bat Signal; taps bat logo ] Nice.
Lt. James Gordon : I couldn't find any mob bosses.

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[ trying to lug a burning roof beam off of a helpless Bruce ]
Alfred Pennyworth : What is the point of all those push-ups if you can't even lift a bloody log?

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Henri Ducard : But I know the rage that drives you. That impossible anger strangling the grief, until the memory of your loved one is just... poison in your veins. And one day, you catch yourself wishing the person you loved had never existed so you'd be spared your pain.

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Dr. Jonathan Crane : Mr. Finch, I think you should check with Miss Dawes here, just what implications your office has authorized her to make. If any.

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Dr. Jonathan Crane : Well, the work offered by organized crime must have an attraction to the insane.

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Alfred Pennyworth : [ walking through the Batcave ] In the Civil War, your great-great grandfather was involved in the Underground Railroad, secretly transporting freed slaves to the North. And I suspect these caverns came in handy.

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Falafel Stand Vendor : Flass, I have kids to feed.
Flass : What, they don't like falafel?

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Loeb : Gordon! Gordon! All the city's riot police are on the island with you.
Jim Gordon : Well, they're completely incapacitated!

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Rachel Dawes : What chance does Gotham have when the good people do nothing?

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Lucius Fox : [ about the microwave emitter ] Earle just fired me for asking too many questions about it.
Bruce Wayne : I need you to go back to Wayne Enterprises right now and start making more of that antidote. I think the police are gonna need as much as they can get their hands on, okay?
Lucius Fox : My security clearance has been revoked.
Bruce Wayne : That wouldn't stop a man like you, now would it?
Lucius Fox : [ smiles ] I suppose not.

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[ after getting thrown out of Falcone's restaurant, Bruce takes out his wallet, removes the cash, and throws the wallet into a drum fire. He then offers the cash to a homeless man ]
Homeless Man : For what?
Bruce Wayne : Your jacket.
Homeless Man : Okay. [ as he takes it off, Bruce prepares to throw his own into the fire ]
Homeless Man : Hey, hey, hey, let me have it. It's a nice coat. [ They switch coats ]
Bruce Wayne : Be careful who sees you with that. They're going to come looking for me.
Homeless Man : Who?
Bruce Wayne : Everyone. [ He runs off ]
Homeless Man : It's-it's a nice coat...

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Henri Ducard : Your anger gives you great power. But if you let it, it will destroy you. As it almost did me.
Bruce Wayne : What stopped it?
Henri Ducard : Vengeance.

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[ Ra's Al Ghul says something in a foreign language ]
Henri Ducard : What are you seeking?
Bruce Wayne : I seek the means to fight injustice, to turn fear against those who prey on the fearful.
Henri Ducard : To manipulate the fears of others, you must first learn to master your own, are you ready to begin?
Bruce Wayne : I-I can barely stand
Henri Ducard : [ He kicks Bruce over ] Death does not wait for you to be ready, death is not considerate or fair and make no mistake about it, here you will face death!

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