A character in Batman Forever (1995)

Harvey Dent/Two-Face quotes from Batman Forever (1995)

Tommy Lee Jones

3rd most-quoted character in Batman Forever (1995): in 13 of its 65 quotes

A line from Harvey Dent/Two-Face

One man is born a hero, his brother a coward. Babies starve, politicians grow fat, holy men are martyred, and junkies grow legion. Why? Why, why, why, why, why? LUCK! Blind, stupid, simple, doo-dah, clueless luck!

More lines from Harvey Dent/Two-Face

9 quotes
Harvey Dent/Two-Face
[A coin toss has decided a victim's fate]

Ah. Fortune smiles. Another day of wine and roses. Or, in your case, beer and pizza!

Harvey Dent/Two-Face

Let's start this party with a bang!

Harvey Dent/Two-Face

The Bat's stubborn refusal to expire... IS DRIVING US INSANE!

Harvey Dent/Two-Face

You have broken into our hideout. You have violated the sanctity of our lair. For this we should crush your bones into POWDER. However, you do pose a very interesting proposition: therefore, heads, we accept, and tails, we blow your damned head off!

Harvey Dent/Two-Face

It's an old-fashioned low-tech stick-up. We want to have the following: cash, jewelry, celullar telephones. Hand them over nice and quietly and no one will be hurt.

Harvey Dent/Two-Face

Finally, justice is served! Let us die!

Harvey Dent/Two-Face

Why yes, of course, you're right, Bruce. Emotion is always the enemy of true justice. Thank you. You've always been a good friend. [tosses the coin]

Scenes with Harvey Dent/Two-Face

3 scenes

May I persuade you to take a sandwich with you, sir?

Batman

I'll get drive-through.

Batman

I read your work. Insightful. Naive, but insightful.

I'm flattered. Not every girl makes a superhero's night table.

Commissioner Gordon
[about Two-Face]

Can we reason with him? He's holding innocent people hostage up there.

He'll slaughter them without thinking twice.

Batman

Agreed. A trauma powerful enough to create an alternate personality leaves the victim-

[interrupting]

-in a world where normal rules of right and wrong no longer apply.

Batman

Exactly.

Like you. [off his look] Well, let's just say that I could write a hell of a paper on a grown man who dresses like a flying rodent.

Batman

Bats aren't rodents, Dr. Meridian.

Riddler
(Riddler speaks with Two-Face in his lair for the first time)

I simply love what you've done to this place; heavy metal meets house-and-garden. Splendid! It's so dark, and Gothic, and disgustingly decadent... yet so bright, and chipper, and... conservative. It's so you! And yet, so YOU! Yes, very few people are both a summer and a winter, but... you pull it off nicely.

Two-Face
(Two-Face smiles, then fires a gun into the air close to Riddler's ear, making him recoil)

Just get to the point, big boy.

Riddler

Has anyone told you that you have a SERIOUS IMPULSE CONTROL PROBLEM?!

Riddler

Hey, Two-Face! Show me how to punch a guy!

Two-Face

It's darn simple, my boy; ball up a fist, reach way back, and assert yourself! [punches out cop]

Riddler

Ooo! Sounds fun...lemme try, lemme try!

Two-Face

Ball up a fist...

Riddler
[clenches fist]

Ball up a fist!

Two-Face

Reach way back...

Riddler
[winds up]

Reach way back!

Two-Face

And assert yourself!

Riddler

Assert yours—[punches another cop, but is ineffective] OW! OW!

[in Bruce's monitor watch]

I'm sorry to bother you, sir. But I have some rather distressing news about Master Dick.

Bruce

What? Is he alright?

I'm afraid Master Dick has, uhm, gone traveling.

Wayne

He ran away?

Actually, he took... the car.

Wayne

He boosted the Jag?

No, sir. Not the Jaguar. The other car.

Wayne

The Bentley?

No, sir... the other car.

Dick Grayson
[while beating up Batman]

Bastard! I should've been you! If you had told Two-Face who you were at the circus... They'd still be alive!

Batman

If Bruce Wayne could've given his life for your family, he would have.

Dick Grayson

All I can think about every second of the day is getting Two-Face. He took my whole life. And when I was out there tonight, I imagined it was him that I was fighting, even when I was fighting you. And all the pain went away. Do you understand?

Bruce Wayne

Yes, I do.

Grayson

Good, 'cause you gotta help me find him. And when we do, I'm the one who kills him.

Wayne

So, you're willing to take a life.

Grayson

Long as it's Two-Face.

Wayne

Then it will happen this way: you make the kill, but your pain doesn't die with Harvey, it grows. So you run out into the night to find another face, and another, and another, until one terrible morning you wake up and realize that revenge has become your whole life. And you won't know why.

Grayson

You can't understand. Your family wasn't killed by a maniac.

Wayne

Yes, they were. We're the same.

Dick Grayson

I need a name! Batboy, Nightwing, I dunno. What's a good sidekick name?

Bruce Wayne

How about Dick Grayson, college student?

Dick Grayson

Screw you!

Riddler
(switching on a garish green overcoat with flashing light-up question marks)

Like the jacket? It keeps me safe when I'm jogging at night!

Batman will come for me.

The Riddler
[fake British accent]

Batman? Batman, you say? Coming for you? [laughs, then makes weird noises] I'm... counting on it!

Bruce Wayne
[Bruce and Alfred are trying to figure out the connection between numbers in five riddles.]

Each riddle contains a number, and they go in this order: 13, 1, 8 and 5. Perhaps... letters of the alphabet?

Of course! 13 is M.

Wayne

1 would be A, 8 would be H, and 5 would be E.

M-A-H-E...

Wayne

Perhaps 1 and 8 are 18.

18 is... R. M-R-E.

Wayne

How about "Mr. E"?

"Mystery".

Wayne

And another name for mystery?

Enigma.

Wayne

Mr. E. Nygma... Edward Nygma. Stickley's suicide was obviously a computer-generated forgery.

You really are quite bright, despite what people say.

Two-Face
[Two-Face and The Riddler are trying to sink the Batboat.]

B12!

The Riddler

Hit! And my favorite vitamin, I might add.

Robin

Holey rusted metal, Batman!

Batman

Huh?

Robin

The ground, it's all metal. It's full of holes. You know, holey.

Batman

Oh.

Batman

I see without seeing. To me, darkness is as clear as daylight. What am I?

The Riddler

Why, that's easy, you're as blind as a bat!

Batman

Exactly

The Riddler
(The Riddler and Two-Face are robbing a jewelry store) (about a diamond he's picked up)

Here's a good one!

Two-Face
(holding a huge diamond)

No, no! There is a good one.

Two-Face
(upon seeing a newspaper reporting Batman's survival) [wails dramatically]
The Riddler

That's just what I said. And then I taught my doggy a new trick! How to map the human mind.

[Dr. Meridian is visiting an insane Nygma in Arkham Asylum.]

Edward, please. Who is Batman?

Edward Nygma

I'm Batman! [laughs manically as he flaps his arms like wings]

[outside]

Your secret's safe. He's a complete wacko.

Bruce Wayne

Wacko. That a... technical term?

Two-Face

You're counting on the winged avenger to deliver you from evil, aren't you, my friend?

Bank Guard

Are you gonna kill me?

Two-Face

Maybe, maybe not. You could say we're of two minds on the subject. Are you a gambling man? What say we flip for it?

Bank Guard

Oh no! It's boiling acid!

Two-Face

For your entertainment, we bring you the very acid that made us what we are today!

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