Tony Stark Yes and no. March and I had scheduling conflicts, but luckily December was twins. [when asked if he went 12-for-12 with the Maxim Girls]
Played by Robert Downey Jr. 
Iron Man (2008) · 72 quotes
Iron Man (2008) · 72 quotes
Most-quoted character in Iron Man (2008): in 51 of its 72 quotes
Most scenes with: Raza (27), Pepper Potts (7), Yinsen (6)
I'm just not the hero type, clearly. What, with this laundry list of character defects and all the mistakes I've made, largely publicly.
More lines from Tony Stark
21 quotes Tony Stark Tony Stark They say the best weapon is one you never have to fire. I respectfully disagree. I prefer the weapon you only need to fire once. That's how Dad did it, that's how America does it, and it's worked out pretty well so far. I present to you the newest in Stark Industries' Freedom line. Find an excuse to let one of these [Jericho missiles] off the chain, and I personally guarantee you the bad guys won't even want to come out of their caves. [a Jericho launches and heads for the mountains in the distance] Ladies and gentlemen, for your consideration…[the Jericho's warheads detonate and kick up a fast-moving shock wave]…the Jericho.
Tony Stark Is it better to be feared or respected? I say, is it too much to ask for both?
Tony Stark [referencing the high tech drink provider]
I'll be throwing one of these in with every purchase of $500 million or more. To peace!
Tony Stark This is the fun-vee. The humdrum-vee is back there.
Tony Stark Organize a press conference. I want a press conference and I want an American Cheeseburger. Hogan, drive. Cheeseburger first.
Tony Stark Gonna start out nice and easy, using 10% percent thrust capacity, achieve lift…in 3…2…1…[does a spectacular backwards somersault straight into a wall, gets sprayed with a fire extinguisher by one of his robots]
Tony Stark [to one of his robots]
If you douse me again and I'm not actually on fire, I'm donating you to a city college.
Tony Stark [to the fire extinguisher robot]
Please don't follow me around with it either, because I feel like I'm going to catch on fire spontaneously. Just stand down. If something happens, then come in.
Tony Stark [as the fire extinguisher robot is looking like it's about to spray him]
] Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah!
Tony Stark Yeah. I can fly. [after finally mastering the art of controlling the flight stabilizers]
Tony Stark Sometimes you've gotta run before you can walk.
Tony Stark [After a successful test flight with the Mark II Suit]
Kill power. [Suit shuts off and he crashes back down through the roof and ground floor to his workshop; a robot then sprays a fire extinguisher on him]
Tony Stark I'm working on something big.
Tony Stark You look great, Hef. [said to Stan Lee]
Tony Stark Give me a Scotch. I'm starving.
Tony Stark [After locating and dumping the leader of a terrorist cell in front of the people he had been terrorizing; in a deep, synthesized voice]
He's all yours.
Tony Stark [Pepper Potts sees him trying to get out of his armor with the assistance of various robots]
Let's face it. This isn't the worst thing you've caught me doing.
Tony Stark [to robot]
Good boy.
Tony Stark [reading the newspaper]
Iron Man? That's kinda catchy. Not technically accurate, since it's a gold titanium alloy, but…
Tony Stark The truth is…I am Iron Man.
Scenes with Tony Stark
29 scenes Tony Stark [AC/DC's Back in Black playing the background as the film opening song following the scene]
I feel like you're driving me to court-martial, this is crazy. What did I do? I feel like you're going to pull over and snuff me. What, you're not allowed to talk? Hey. Forrest.
Male Soldier
We can talk, sir.
Tony Stark Oh, I see. So, it's personal.
Female Soldier
No. You intimidate them.
Tony Stark Good God, you're a woman. I honestly couldn't have called that. I mean, I'd apologize, but isn't that what we're going for here? I thought you were a soldier first.
Female Soldier
I'm an Airman.
Tony Stark Well, you have excellent bone structure there. I'm kinda having a hard time not looking at you now. Is that weird?
Tony Stark [They all laugh]
Come on! It's okay, laugh. Hey!
Marine
Is it cool if I get a picture with you?
Tony Stark Yes. Yes, it's very cool.
Tony Stark [The soldier sits next to Stark, and flashes a "peace" sign]
I don't want to see this on your MySpace page. Please, no gang signs.
Tony Stark [The soldier lowers his hand]
No, throw it up. I'm kidding. I love peace. I'd be out of a job with peace.
Mr. Stark, you've been called the Da Vinci of our time. What do you say to that?
Tony Stark Absolutely ridiculous. I don't paint.
What do you say to your other nickname, the "Merchant of Death"?
Tony Stark That's not bad.
Tony Stark O.K, here's an answer. My father had a philosophy. Peace means having a bigger stick than the other guy.
That's a great line coming from the guy selling the sticks.
Tony Stark My father helped defeat the Nazis. He worked on the Manhattan Project. A lot of people, including your professors at Brown, would call that being a hero.
And a lot of people would also call that war-profiteering.
Have you ever lost an hour of sleep your whole life?
Tony Stark I'd be prepared to lose a few with you.
Tony Stark I don't like it when you have plans.
I'm allowed to have plans on my birthday.
Tony Stark It's your birthday? [she nods] I knew that. ...already?
Yeah, isn't that funny? It's the same day as last year.
Tony Stark Well, get yourself something nice from me.
I already did.
Tony Stark And?
Oh, it was... very nice. Very tasteful. Thank you, Mr. Stark.
Tony Stark You're welcome, Ms. Potts.
Tony Stark That will be all, Ms. Potts.
Tony Stark I shouldn't do anything. They could kill you, they're gonna kill me, either way, and even if they don't, I'll probably be dead in a week.
Then this is a very important week for you, isn't it?
We would probably be more productive if you included me in the planning process.
Tony Stark Yeah-huh. [continues working]
Stark [Stark and Yensen are building the suit]
Easy. Easy. We only get one shot at this.
Don't worry, I have steady hands. Why do you think you're still alive?
What is that?
Tony Stark That's palladium. Point-one-five grams. We're gonna need at least one-point-six, so why don't you go break down the other eleven?
Tony Stark Do you have a family?
Yes, and I will see them when I leave here. And you Stark?
Tony Stark No.
No. So you are a man who has everything, and nothing.
Tony Stark [To a dying Yinsen]
We gotta go. Come on, move with me. We have a plan, and we're going to stick to it.
This was always the plan, Stark.
Tony Stark Come on, you're going to go see your family. Get up.
My family is dead Stark. And I'm going to see them now. It's okay. I want this. I want this.
Tony Stark Thank you for saving me.
Don't waste it. Don't waste your life, Stark.
Tony Stark [Pepper greets Tony when he comes home from Afghanistan]
Hmmm. Your eyes are red. Tears for your long lost boss?
Tears of joy. I hate job hunting.
Tony Stark Yeah, well, vacation's over.
Tony Stark I never got to say goodbye to my father. There's questions I would've asked him. I would've asked him how he felt about what his company did, if he was conflicted, if he ever had doubts. Or maybe he was every inch of man we remember from the newsreels. I saw young Americans killed by the very weapons I created to defend them and protect them. And I saw that I had become part of a system that is comfortable with zero-accountability.
Press Reporter #1
Mr. Stark, what happened over there?
Tony Stark I had my eyes opened. I came to realize that I had more to offer this world than just making things that blow up. And that is why, effective immediately, I am shutting down the weapons manufacturing division of Stark Industries.
Tony Stark I just want you to reach in, and gently lift the wire out.
Is it safe?
Tony Stark Yeah. It should be fine. It's just like Operation, just don't let it touch the socket or it'll go beep.
What do you mean operation?
Tony Stark It's just a game. Nevermind. Just gently lift the wire, ok? Alright.
You know, I—I, uh—I don't think that I'm qualified to do that.
Tony Stark No, no you're fine.You are the most capable qualified trustworthy person I've ever met. You'll do great. Is it too much to ask? 'Cause--
Ok, ok.
Tony Stark —I really need your help here.
Oh. Ah. Ew, there's pus!
Tony Stark It's not pus. It's an inorganic plasmic discharge, it's from the device, not my body.
It smells.
Tony Stark Yeah, it does.
I thought you were finished making weapons?
Tony Stark It is. This is a flight stabilizer. It's perfectly harmless.
Tony Stark [The stabilizer violently discharges, destroying part of the workbench and sending Tony flying.]
I wasn't expecting that.
Tony Stark [As they're dancing]
Am I making you uncomfortable?
Oh, no, I always forget to wear deodorant and dance with my boss in a room full of people I work with in a dress with no back.
Tony Stark Well, you look great, you smell great. But I could fire you if that would take the edge off.
I honestly don't think you could tie your shoes without me.
Tony Stark I'd make it a week.
Really. What's your social security number?
Tony Stark [long pause]
Five.
Five? Yeah, you're missing just a couple of digits there.
Tony Stark The other eight? But I've got you for the other eight.
Tony Stark I'm driving with the top down.
Well, I need your help right now.
Tony Stark Funny how that works, huh?
Yeah. Speaking of funny, we got a weapons depot that was just blown up a few klicks from where you were being held.
Tony Stark Well, I'd say that's a hot spot. Sounds... [takes a breath] like someone stepped in and did your job for you.
Why do you sound out of breath, Tony?
Tony Stark I'm not. I was just jogging through the canyon.
I thought you were driving.
Tony Stark Right, I was driving... to the canyon... where I'm going for a jog.
You sure you don't have any tech in that area I should know about?
Tony Stark Nope.
Good, because we got a lock on something and we're about to blow it to kingdom come.
Tony Stark [Two F-22 Raptors fall in position behind Stark]
Whoops, there's my exit!
[On the phone with Tony, after seeing the suit in action]
This isn't a game. You do not send civilian equipment into my active war zone. Do you understand me? Do you understand that?
Tony Stark It's not a piece of equipment. I'm in it, it's a suit.
What?
Tony Stark IT'S ME!
[screen shows the suit hanging on the bottom of a jet]
You owe me a plane, you realize that.
Tony Stark Yeah, well, technically he hit me, so…
Tony Stark [after a pause]
Let's face it, this is not the worst thing you've caught me doing.
Are those bullet holes?
Woman
Hey, Tony. Remember me?
Tony Stark Sure don't.
Tony Stark [After seeing the gold 3-D render of his suit]
A little ostentatious, don't you think?
Tony Stark Tell you what. Throw a little hot-rod red in there.
Oh yes. That should help you keep a low profile.
Sir, it appears his suit can fly.
Tony Stark Duly noted. Take me to maximum altitude.
Sir, at 19% power, the odds of reaching that altitude ...
Tony Stark [cutting in]
I KNOW THE MATH! DO IT!!
Tony Stark [After end-credits. Tony reaches home]
Jarvis.
Nick Fury [Tony notices a figure by the window]
"I am Iron Man…" Think you're the only super hero in the world? Mr. Stark, you've become part of a bigger universe. You just don´t know it yet.
Tony Stark Who the hell are you?
Nick Fury [The man walks into the light]
Nick Fury, Director of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Tony Stark Uh-huh.
Nick Fury I'm here to talk to you about The Avenger Initiative.
Tony Stark Damn right I'm not. I'm an army.
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Tony A little ostentatious, don't you think?
J.A.R.V.I.S.
What was I thinking? You're usually so discreet.
Tony Tell you what. Throw a little hot-rod red in there.
J.A.R.V.I.S.
Oh yes. That should help you keep a low profile. [seconds later] The render is complete.
Tony Hey, I like it. Fabricate it, paint it.
J.A.R.V.I.S.
Beginning automated assembly. Estimated completion time is five hours.
Tony Don't wait up for me, honey.
Tony Stark I was out of town for a couple months, in case you didn't hear.
Is this what you call accountability? It's a town called Gulmira. Heard of it?
Tony Stark When were these taken?
Yesterday.
Tony Stark I didn't approve any shipment.
Well, your company did.
Tony Stark Well, I'm not my company.
Please, do you mind?
Tony Stark Have you seen these pictures? What's going on in Gulmira?
Tony, Tony. You can't afford to be this naive.
Tony Stark You know what? I was naive before, when they said, "Here's the line. We don't cross it. This is how we do business." If we're double-dealing under the table... Are we?
