Batman Begins quotes

View Quote "The work offered by organized crime must have some sort of attraction to the insane."

View Quote [Bruce has just test-driven the "Tumbler".]
Lucius Fox: So, what do you think?
Bruce Wayne: Does it come in black?

View Quote Joe Chill: "Your honor, not a day goes by that I don't wish I could take back what I did. Sure, I was desperate—like a lot of people back then—but that don't change what I did."

View Quote [After a brawl in the prison yard, Bruce is dragged away by guards.]
Guard: Solitary!
Bruce Wayne: Why?!
Guard: For protection.
Bruce: I don't need protection!
Guard: Protection for them.

View Quote "Justice is about harmony. Revenge is about you making yourself feel better. Which is why we have an impartial system."

View Quote [While exiting the flaming ruins of Wayne Manor] "Justice is balance. You burned my house and left me for dead. Consider us even."

View Quote Ducard: Don't be afraid, Bruce. You're just an ordinary man in a cape. That's why you can't fight injustice, and that's why you can't stop this train.
Batman: Who said anything about stopping it?
[An explosion destroys the tracks ahead.]
Batman: [Overpowering Ducard] You never learned to mind your surroundings.
Ducard: Have you finally learned to do what is necessary?
Batman: I won't kill you. But I don't have to save you.

View Quote [As Wayne takes money out of his wallet and gives it to the 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, 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 holds up the coat, looking at it]
Homeless Man: It's a nice coat...

View Quote [In Gordon's Office]
Batman: (holds Gordon up with a gun)Don't turn around. You're a good cop, one of the few.
Gordon: What do you want?
Batman: Carmine Falcone brings in shipments of drugs every week. Nobody takes him down. Why?
Gordon: He's paid up with the right people.
Batman: What would it take to bring him down?
Gordon: Leverage on Judge Fayden, and a DA brave enough to prosecute.
Batman: Rachel Dawes.
Gordon: Who are you?
Batman: (the "gun" is then revealed to be a stapler, unknown to Gordon)Watch for my sign.(retracts the stapler and backs off)
Gordon: You're just one man?
Batman: Now we're two.
Gordon: We?

View Quote "You will never learn."

View Quote Ducard: Compassion is not a quality your enemies will share.
Bruce Wayne: That's why it's so important. It separates us from them.

View Quote [Bruce wants Lucius Fox to mass-produce the antidote for Crane's fear gas.]
Lucius Fox: Planning on gassing yourself again, Mister Wayne?
Bruce Wayne: Well, you know how it is: it's late at night, and you're out looking for kicks, and somebody starts passing out the weaponised hallucinogens...

View Quote "This is where we make the medicine. Perhaps you should have some...clear your head."

View Quote (Half-heartedly faking insanity to get out of prison.) "Yeah, Dr. 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."

View Quote Gordon: The Narrows is tearing itself to pieces.
Batman: This is just the beginning. If they hit the whole city with toxins, there's nothing to stop Gotham from tearing itself apart through mass panic.
Gordon: How are they gonna do that?
Batman: They'll be using the train. The monorail follows the water mains along Gotham's central hub beneath Wayne Tower. If they get their machine into the station, it'll cause a chain reaction that'll vaporize the city's entire water supply.
Gordon: Covering Gotham in this poison.
Batman: I'm gonna stop them from loading that train, but I may need your help.
Gordon: What do you need?
Batman: [holds up the Batmobile remote] Can you drive stick?