Robert Downey Jr. credited as playing...
Tony Stark
- [last lines]
- Tony Stark: There's been speculation that I was involved in the events that occurred on the freeway and the rooftop...
- Christine Everheart: I'm sorry, Mr. Stark, but do you honestly expect us to believe that that was a bodyguard in a suit that conveniently appeared, despite the fact that...
- Tony Stark: I know that it's confusing. It is one thing to question the official story, and another thing entirely to make wild accusations, or insinuate that I'm a superhero.
- Christine Everheart: I never said you were a superhero.
- Tony Stark: Didn't?
- Christine Everheart: Mmm-mmm.
- Tony Stark: Well, good, because that would be outlandish and, uh, fantastic. I'm just not the hero type. Clearly. With this laundry list of character defects, all the mistakes I've made, largely public.
- Rhodey: [whispers to Tony] Just stick to the cards, man.
- Tony Stark: Yeah, okay.
- [holds up his notes and pauses]
- Tony Stark: The truth is...
- [puts cards down]
- Tony Stark: I am Iron Man.
- Tony Stark: You got a family?
- Yinsen: Yes, and I will see them when I leave here. And you, Stark?
- Tony Stark: [quietly] No.
- Yinsen: So you're a man who has everything... and nothing.
- Tony Stark: [reading the newspaper] Iron Man. That's kind of catchy. It's got a nice ring to it. I mean it's not technically accurate. The suit's a gold titanium alloy, but it's kind of provocative, the imagery anyway.
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: Tony, you know that I would help you with anything, but I cannot help you if you're going to start all this again.
- Tony Stark: There is nothing except this. There's no art opening, no charity, nothing to sign. There's the next mission, and nothing else.
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: Is that so? Well, then I quit.
- Tony Stark: You stood by my side all these years while I reaped the benefits of destruction. Now that I'm trying to protect the people I've put in harm's way, you're going to walk out?
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: You're going to kill yourself, Tony. I'm not going to be a part of it.
- Tony Stark: I shouldn't be alive... unless it was for a reason. I'm not crazy, Pepper. I just finally know what I have to do. And I know in my heart that it's right.
- Tony Stark: We gotta go. Come on, move with me. We got a plan, and we're going to stick to it.
- Yinsen: This was always the plan, Stark...
- Tony Stark: Come on, you're going to go see your family. Get up.
- Yinsen: My family is dead, Stark... and I'm going to see them now. It's okay, I want this... I want this.
- [Stark is silent for a moment]
- Tony Stark: Thank you for saving me.
- Yinsen: Don't waste it... don't waste your life, Stark.
- [dies]
- Tony Stark: [recording a log as he tests his rocket boots] Day 11, Test 37, Configuration 2.0. For lack of a better option, Dummy is still on fire safety.
- [turns to robot]
- Tony Stark: If you douse me again, and I'm not on fire, I'm donating you to a city college. Seriously, we're just gonna start off with 1% thrust capacity. And three... two... one.
- [performs test successfully, then lands. Dummy raises its extinguisher arm hopefully]
- Tony Stark: 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.
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: [walking in on Stark's robots trying to get him out of the Iron Man suit] What is going on here?
- Tony Stark: Let's face it, this is not the worst thing you've caught me doing.
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: Are those bullet holes?
- Christine Everheart: Mr. Stark! Christine Everheart, Vanity Fair magazine. Can I ask you a couple of questions?
- Hogan: [whispers to Stark] She's cute.
- Tony Stark: [whispers to Hogan] She's alright.
- [turns around]
- Tony Stark: Hi!
- Christine Everheart: Hi.
- Tony Stark: Yeah. Okay, go.
- Christine Everheart: You've been called the Da Vinci of our time. What do you say to that?
- Tony Stark: Absolutely ridiculous. I don't paint.
- Christine Everheart: And what do you say to your other nickname, the Merchant of Death?
- Tony Stark: That's not bad. Let me guess... Berkeley?
- Christine Everheart: Brown, actually.
- Tony Stark: Well, Ms. Brown. It's an imperfect world, but it's the only one we got. I guarantee you the day weapons are no longer needed to keep the peace, I'll start making bricks and beams for baby hospitals.
- Christine Everheart: Rehearse that much?
- Tony Stark: Every night in front of the mirror before bedtime.
- Christine Everheart: I can see that.
- Tony Stark: I'd like to show you firsthand.
- Christine Everheart: [exasperated] All I'm looking for is a straight answer.
- Tony Stark: OK, here's a straight answer. My old man had a philosophy: peace means having a bigger stick than the other guy.
- Christine Everheart: That's a great line, coming from a guy selling the sticks.
- Tony Stark: My father helped defeat Nazis. He worked on the Manhattan Project. A lot of people, including your professors at Brown, would call that being a hero.
- Christine Everheart: And a lot of people would also call that war-profiteering.
- Tony Stark: Tell me,
- [removing his shades]
- Tony Stark: do you plan to report on the millions we've saved by advancing medical technology or kept from starvation with our intelli-crops? All those breakthroughs, military funding, honey.
- Christine Everheart: Have you ever lost an hour of sleep in your life?
- Tony Stark: I'd be prepared to lose a few with you.
- Tony Stark: What are you trying to get rid of me for? You got plans?
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: As a matter of fact, I do.
- Tony Stark: I don't like it when you have plans.
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: I'm allowed to have plans on my birthday.
- Tony Stark: It's your birthday?
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: Yes.
- Tony Stark: I knew that. Already?
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: Yeah, isn't that strange? It's the same day as last year.
- Tony Stark: Well, get yourself something nice for me.
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: I already did.
- Tony Stark: Yeah? And?
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: Oh, it's very nice... very tasteful. Thank you, Mr. Stark.
- Tony Stark: You're welcome, Ms. Potts.
- Tony Stark: Am I making you uncomfortable?
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: 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.
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: I don't think you could tie your shoes without me.
- Tony Stark: I'd make it a week.
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: A week, really? What's your social security number?
- Tony Stark: [he pauses]
- Tony Stark: Five...
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: [smiling] "Five?" You're missing just a couple of digits.
- Tony Stark: Right, the other eight. Well, I have you for the other eight.
- Tony Stark: They say that the best weapon is the one you never have to fire. I respectfully disagree. I prefer the weapon you only have 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 off the chain, and I personally guarantee, the bad guys won't even wanna come out of their caves. Ladies and gentlemen, for your consideration... the Jericho.
- [Stark and Potts carry out an arc reactor transplant]
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: Don't ever, ever, ever, ask me to do anything like that, ever again!
- Tony Stark: I don't have anyone but you.
- [first lines]
- Tony Stark: I feel like you're driving me to court martial. This is crazy. What did I do? I feel like you're gonna pull over and snuff me. What, you're not allowed to talk? Hey, Forrest!
- Jimmy: We can talk, sir.
- Tony Stark: Oh, I see. So it's personal.
- Ramirez: No, you intimidate them.
- Tony Stark: Good God, you're a woman! I honestly, I couldn't have called that. I mean, I would apologize, but isn't that what we're going for here? I thought of you as a soldier first.
- Ramirez: I'm an airman.
- Tony Stark: Well, you have actually excellent bone structure there. I'm kinda having a hard time not looking at you now. Is that weird?
- [soldiers laugh]
- Yinsen: We met, you know, in a technical conference in Bern.
- Tony Stark: I don't remember.
- Yinsen: [chuckling] Of course not. If I had been that drunk, I wouldn't have been able to stand, let alone give a lecture on integrated circuits.
- [Pepper is reaching into Tony's chest cavity]
- Tony Stark: Okay now, the copper wire - you got it?
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: Yeah, I've got it.
- Tony Stark: Now pull it out, gently, and just make sure you don't touch the s...
- [BUZZ!]
- Tony Stark: AH! - i-i-i-des!
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: Sorry, I'm sorry!
- Tony Stark: Don't touch the sides, that's what I was trying to tell you before. Now, just gently pull that out, and whatever you do, don't pull out the...
- [Pepper pulls out the end, Tony's heart monitors go off]
- Tony Stark: The magnet at the end of it. See, that was it. You just...
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: What?
- Tony Stark: What I was trying to tell you - no, don't put it back in! Just put it over there, we have to hurry...
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: What's wrong?
- Tony Stark: Oh, nothing, I'm just going into cardiac arrest, because you...
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: *What*? I thought you said this was safe!
- Tony Stark: ...just yanked it out like a trout!
- Rhodey: Oh, my God, you crazy son of a bitch! You owe me a plane, you know that, right?
- Tony Stark: [chuckling] Yeah, well, technically he hit me, so...
- [after end credits]
- Tony Stark: [arriving home] Evening, JARVIS!
- Jarvis: [voice distorted] Welcome home, sir...
- [Stark stops as he sees a figure in his living room]
- Nick Fury: "I am Iron Man". You think you're the only superhero 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: Nick Fury. Director of S.H.I.E.L.D.
- Tony Stark: Ah.
- Nick Fury: I'm here to talk to you about the Avenger Initiative.
- Tony Stark: If I were Iron Man, I'd have this girlfriend who knew my true identity. She'd be a wreck. She'd always be worrying I was going to die, yet so proud of the man I've become. She'd be wildly conflicted, which would only make her more crazy about me...
- Tony Stark: Hmmm. Your eyes are red. Tears for your long lost boss?
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: Tears of joy. I hate job hunting.
- Tony Stark: Yeah, well, vacation's over.
- Tony Stark: Pepper, uh, how big are your hands?
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: What?
- Tony Stark: How big are your hands?
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: I don't understand why...
- Tony Stark: Get down here. I need you.