Christian Bale movie quotes

View Quote [Assessing a business card] Look at that subtle off-white coloring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh my God, it even has a watermark.

View Quote [voiceover] As we arrive at Espace I'm on the verge of tears as I'm certain we won't get a decent table. But we do; relief washes over me in an awesome wave.

View Quote Paul Allen has mistaken me for this dickhead Marcus Halberstram. It seems logical because Marcus also works at P&P and in fact does the same exact thing I do and he also has a penchant for Valentino suits and Oliver Peoples glasses. Marcus and I even go to the same barber, although I have a slightly better haircut.

View Quote [To Gordon] Sometimes, the truth isn't good enough. Sometimes people deserve more. Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded.

View Quote I've seen now what I would have to become to stop men like him.

View Quote [To Harvey, who is trying to intimidate one of Joker's henchmen by pretending to decide whether to kill or not on a coin toss] You'd leave a man's life up to chance?

View Quote [singing] When I dream on my own I'm alone but I ain't lonely. For a dreamer, night's the only time-a day.

View Quote [singing] We're a union just by sayin' so.

View Quote Nope, it's nineteen Weasel. It's nineteen, but don't worry about it; it's an honest mistake. See Morris, he can't count to twenty with his shoes on.

View Quote (Ending a radio broadcast) This is John Connor. If you are listening to this message, you are the Resistance.

View Quote (last lines of the film) There is a storm on the horizon. A time of hardship and pain. The battle has been won, but the war against machines rages on. Skynet's global network remains strong, but we will not quit, until all of it is destroyed. This is John Connor. There is no fate but what we make.

View Quote (After Kate asks what she should say if his men find him gone) I'll be back.

View Quote Thomas: What do you suppose the New World will look like?
John Smith: Like all the others, I suppose. I've seen hundreds of new worlds, Thomas. What could be possibly different about this one?

View Quote Governor Ratcliffe: Look at it, Wiggins. An entire New World chock full of gold, just waiting for me.
Wiggins: And scores of adventures waiting for us, right, Percy? Do you think we'll meet some savages?
Governor Ratcliffe: If we do, we shall be sure to give them a proper English greeting.
Wiggins: Oooh, gift baskets! [holds up a pair of gift baskets]
Governor Ratcliffe: [to himself] And he came so highly recommended.
[Ratcliffe opens the map, John enters.]
John Smith: It's perfect, Governor. The water's deep enough, we can pull right up to shore. [to Percy; ruffles his fur] Hey there, Percy.
[Percy growls softly]
Governor Ratcliffe: Very well, then. Give the order.
John Smith: Already done, sir. I've got a crew assembled and they're ready to go.
Governor Ratcliffe: About the natives, I'm counting on you to make sure those filthy heathens don't disrupt our mission.
John Smith: Well, if they're anything like the savages I've fought before, it's nothing I can't handle.
Governor Ratcliffe: Right. That'll be all, Smith, there's a good man.
John Smith: [ruffles Percy's fur again] See ya, Percy. [Percy growls; leaves]
Governor Ratcliffe: The men like Smith, don't they? [Percy growls again over Smith ruffling his fur] I've never been a popular man.
Wiggins: I like you.
Governor Ratcliffe: And don't think I don't know what those backstabbers at court say about me.
Wiggins: Oh yes, all that talk about you being a pathetic social climber who's failed at everything he's--
Governor Ratcliffe: I'm very well aware that this is my last chance for glory. But mark my words, Wiggins, when King James see the gold these peasants unearth success will be mine, at last.
[Outside; The boat drops to the water]
Ben: Wake up! Shake a leg!
Lon: It's incredible.
Thomas: And it's all ours. I've never seen anything like it.
Ben: It can look like Ratcliffe's knickers, for all I care, just as long as we get off this stinking boat.
John Smith: Come on, men, we didn't come all this way just to look at it.
[They row ashore as Pocahontas watches.]
Ben: Keep it taut, lads, keep it taut! Steady, steady.
Lon: Ah, that's far enough! All right now, tie her off.
Thomas: Here, John, tie up this end. John? John? What are you doing up there?
John Smith: Getting a better look. [Meeko bumps into him.] Hey! Well, you're a strange-looking fellow. You hungry? Here you go, it's a biscuit. It's food... Well, sort of. You like it, eh? Well, try eating it for four months straight. You got a friend back there? [Flit attacks him.] Hey, what, what, watch out! No... Get that... Look out!
Thomas: John! You better get down here! The Governor's coming ashore!
John Smith: All right, all right, I'm leaving.

View Quote Ben: Alright! This one's ready to hoist!?
Lon: Two on each side. Ready now? Push! Watch it! It's slipping!
Ben: [John, Thomas, Lon pushing the fence] Come on, lads, it's only a little picket fence.
Lon: [Meeko climbs the fence] Steady! Steady!
Ben: There you go.
Thomas: That'll keep everything out, eh, John? [John digs a shovel] Something wrong, John?
John Smith: What?!
Thomas: You've been quiet the last few days.
Lon: [to John] Oh, he's just mad he missed all the action.
Thomas: Ah, don't worry, John. You'll get your chance to deal with Indians.
Lon: Yeah. We'll take care of them, like we did last time, eh, mates? [singing] We shot ourselves an injun, or maybe two or three.
Ben: [angrily kicks him] All right, you howling nutter! Get to work!
Lon: Come on, Ben, it's just just a little fun.
Ben: [sarcastically] Oh, sure, we're having loads of fun. Right, look at us. No gold, no food, while Ratcliffe sits up in his tent all day happy as a clam.
Governor Ratcliffe: [in his tent] I'm doomed! I should be wallowing in riches right now, and I haven't found as much as a speck! [Meeko sniffing to sees Percy] Think. Think! It's got to be around somewhere. Where could it be? [Percy is seen playing with a merry-go-round that has dog biscuits, Percy begin to eat the biscuits, but then he notices Meeko eating them.] I've mined the forests and the hills and the swamps... and NOTHING! [Percy begins to chase Meeko away without Governor Ratcliffe even noticing] Why can't I find it?! What am I overlooking?!
[He turns around and is shocked it to Wiggins apparently shot through the head with an arrow]
Wiggins: I... I... [he takes off his headband, made from an native's arrow] I made it myself!
Governor Ratcliffe: [snatches it off his head] Take that silly...! [looking at the arrow] Of course. The Indians. Wiggins, why do you think those insolent heathens attacked us?
Wiggins: Because we invaded their land and cut down their trees and dug up their earth?
Governor Ratcliffe: It's the gold! They have it, and they don't want us to take it from them. Well, I'll just have to take it by force then, won't I?
[Ben and Lon tired, When Governor Ratcliffe comes looking John Smith has disappeared.]
Governor Ratcliffe: You there! Where's Captain Smith?
Lon: Well, he's... gone.
Ben: Ay, your singing must have scared him off.
Governor Ratcliffe: Well then go get him, for heaven's sake!
Lon: What if we run into the Indians?
Governor Ratcliffe: That's what guns are for! Now arm yourselves and get moving!

View Quote Wah, ha ha! Go! P-51, Cadillac of the sky!

View Quote Learned a new word today: "Atom bomb". It was like a white light in the sky, like God taking a photograph.

View Quote I could bring everyone back.

View Quote High Priestess: [reading fowl entrails] In the battle a leader will be saved, and his savior will someday lead.
Moses: [laughs] Then the entrails should also say that we will abandon reason and be guided by omens.

View Quote Moses: I love everything that I know about you. And I trust in what I don't.

View Quote Moses: Remember this. I am prepared to fight. For eternity.

View Quote [to Alice] If I don't go, we got to pack up and leave, and God knows where, without a prayer, dirt-poor. Now I'm tired, Alice. I am tired of watching my boys go hungry. I'm tired of the way that they look at me. I'm tired of the way that you don't. I've been standing on one leg for three damn years, waiting for God to do me a favor. And He ain't listening.

View Quote I ain't never been no hero, Wade. The only battle I seen, we was in retreat. My foot got shot off by one of my own men. You try telling that story to your boy. See how he looks at you then.

View Quote When you think about it, which I have been lately, is they weren't paying me to walk away. They were paying me so they could walk away.

View Quote Selina Kyle: You think this can last? There's a storm coming, Mr. Wayne. You and your friends better batten down the hatches, because when it hits, you're all gonna wonder how you ever thought you could live so large and leave so little for the rest of us.
Bruce: You sound like you're looking forward to it.
Selina: I'm adaptable.

View Quote [Bruce goes to Selina's place, telling her that Batman wants to meet tonight]
Selina: Mr. Wayne? I'm sorry they took all your money.
Bruce: No you're not.

View Quote [In the cave, Alfred looks as Bruce Wayne prepares to go out as Batman once again after an eight-year absence]
Alfred: If you're seriously considering going back out there, you should hear the rumors surrounding Bane.
Bruce: I'm all ears.
Alfred: There is a prison in a more ancient part of the world. A pit where men are thrown to suffer and die. But sometimes a man rises from the darkness. Sometimes the pit sends something back.
Bruce: Bane.
Alfred: Bane. Born and raised in hell on earth.
Bruce: Born in a prison?
Alfred: No one knows why, or how he escaped. But they do know that once he did, he was trained by Ra's Al Ghul, your mentor.
Bruce: Bane was a member of the League of Shadows?
Alfred: And then he was excommunicated. And any man who is too extreme for Ra's Al Ghul is not to be trifled with.
Bruce: I didn't realize I was known for trifling with criminals.
Alfred: That was then. And you can strap up your leg and put your mask back on. But that doesn't make who you were.
Bruce: If this man is everything that you say he is, then the city needs me.
Alfred: The city needs Bruce Wayne. Your resources, your knowledge. It doesn't need your body, or your life. That time has passed.
Bruce: You're afraid that if I go back out there, I'll fail.
Alfred: No. I'm afraid that you want to.

View Quote Are you watching closely?

View Quote A real magician tries to invent something new, that other magicians are gonna scratch their heads over.

View Quote Abracadabra.

View Quote [after test-driving the GT40] This car wants to go faster, I can feel it.

View Quote [test-driving the GT40 with the new engine "The Beast"] OHH! Giddy-up, giddy-up!

View Quote [being surprisingly calm and consoling to Shelby after the results of the Le Mans race, which Miles is in 2nd place] You promised me the drive, not the win.

View Quote I felt like we had a secret, just the two of us. Like that thing where you just wanna be with one person all the time. You feel like the two of you get something no one else gets.

View Quote She was the Picasso of passive-aggressive karate.

View Quote Irving: I want show you something. This Rembrandt here? People come from all over the world to see this.
Richie: Yeah, he's good. Yeah.
Irving: It's a fake.
Richie: Wait, what’re you talking about? That's impossible.
Irving: People believe what they want to believe. 'Cause the guy who made this was so good that it's real to everybody. Now who's the master -- the painter or the forger?
Richie: That's a fake?
Irving: That's the way the world works. Not black and white, like you say. Extremely grey.

View Quote Suffering for your gods is your only purpose.

View Quote The only ones who gods care about is themselves.

View Quote So this is my vow. All gods will die.

View Quote All they want from me is finger-pointin' songs. I only got ten fingers.

View Quote It's a fierce sort of feeling, thinking something is expected of you but you don't know exactly what it is. Brings forth a weird kind of guilt.

View Quote Softly, he said, "I will mangle your mind".

View Quote Curt Wild: A real artist creates beautiful things and... puts nothing of his own life into them. Okay?
Arthur Stuart: Is that what you did?
Curt Wild: No. No. We set out to change the world and ended up... just changing ourselves.
Arthur Stuart: What's wrong with that?
Curt Wild: Nothing... If you don't look at the world.

View Quote [when Mowgli is in a cage] I lived in a king's palace, in a cage just like this. I bit, and I scratched, and I spent my entire life fighting. Until one day, I just stopped, and they gave me their trust. Gain their trust, and they'll let you out.