Ben Affleck credited as playing...
Bruce Wayne • Batman
- Bruce Wayne: We're criminals, Alfred. We've always been criminals. Nothing's changed.
- Alfred: Oh, yes it has, sir. Everything's changed. Men fall from the sky, the gods hurl thunderbolts, innocents die. That's how it starts, sir. The fever, the rage, the feeling of powerlessness that turns good men... cruel.
- Batman: I bet your parents taught you that you mean something, that you're here for a reason. My parents taught me a different lesson, dying in the gutter for no reason at all... They taught me the world only makes sense if you force it to.
- Clark Kent: Civil liberties are being trampled on in your city; good people living in fear.
- Bruce Wayne: Don't believe everything you hear, son.
- Clark Kent: I've seen it, Mr. Wayne. He thinks he's above the law.
- Bruce Wayne: The Daily Planet criticizing those who think they're above the law is a little hypocritical, wouldn't you say? Considering every time your hero saves a cat out of a tree, you write a puff piece editorial about an alien who, if he wanted to, could burn the whole place down. There wouldn't be a damn thing we can do to stop it.
- Clark Kent: Most of the world doesn't share your opinion, Mr. Wayne.
- Bruce Wayne: Maybe it's that Gotham City and me... we just have a bad history with freaks dressed like clowns.
- Bruce Wayne: Still working? You're getting slow in your old age, Alfred.
- Alfred: It comes to us all, Master Wayne. Even you've got too old to die young, though not for lack of trying.
- Alfred: You're gonna go to war?
- Bruce Wayne: That son of a bitch brought the war to us two years ago. Jesus, Alfred, count the dead... thousands of people. What's next? Millions? He has the power to wipe out the entire human race, and if we believe there's even a one percent chance that he is our enemy we have to take it as an absolute certainty... and we have to destroy him.
- Alfred: But he is not our enemy!
- Bruce Wayne: Not today. Twenty years in Gotham, Alfred; we've seen what promises are worth. How many good guys are left? How many stayed that way?
- Bruce Wayne: You don't know me, but I've known a few women like you.
- Diana Prince: Oh, I don't think you've ever known a woman like me.
- Batman: You're not brave... men are brave. You say that you want to help people, but you can't feel their pain... their mortality... It's time you learn what it means to be a man.
- [first lines]
- Batman: There was a time above... a time before... there were perfect things... diamond absolutes. But things fall... things on earth. And what falls... is fallen. In the dream, it took me to the light. A beautiful lie.
- Alfred: You know you can't win this. It's suicide.
- Bruce Wayne: I'm older now than my father ever was. This may be the only thing I do that matters.
- Alfred: Twenty years of fighting criminals amounts to nothing?
- Bruce Wayne: Criminals are like weeds, Alfred; pull one up, another grows in its place. This is about the future of the world. This is my legacy.
- Bruce Wayne: Excuse me, miss. The other night you took something that doesn't belong to you. Stealing's not polite.
- Diana Prince: Is it stealing if you steal from another thief?
- Lex Luthor: Boys! Mm, Bruce Wayne meets Clark Kent. Ah, I love it! I love bringing people together! How are we?
- [shakes Bruce's hand]
- Bruce Wayne: Lex.
- Lex Luthor: Hello. Good.
- [turns to Clark]
- Lex Luthor: Hi, hello.
- [shakes Clark's hand]
- Lex Luthor: Lex. It is a pleasure... Ow! Wow, that is a good grip! You should not pick a fight with this person.
- Bruce Wayne: All the circuses back east, burying an empty box.
- Diana Prince: They don't know how to honor him, except as a soldier.
- Bruce Wayne: I've failed him... in life. I won't fail him in death. Help me find the others like you.
- Diana Prince: Perhaps they don't want to be found.
- Bruce Wayne: They will. And they'll fight. We have to stand together.
- Diana Prince: A hundred years ago I walked away from mankind, from a century of horrors. Man made a world where standing together is impossible.
- Bruce Wayne: Men are still good. We fight. We kill. We betray one another. But we can rebuild. We can do better. We will. We have to.
- [scene of funeral ceremony and graffiti: IF YOU SEEK HIS MONUMENT LOOK AROUND YOU]
- Diana Prince: The others like me. Why did you say they'll have to fight?
- Bruce Wayne: Just a feeling.
- Diana Prince: A hundred years ago I walked away from mankind; from a century of horrors... Men made a world where standing together is impossible.
- Bruce Wayne: Men are still good. We fight, we kill, we betray one another, but we can rebuild. We can do better. We will. We have to.
- Clark Kent: Mr. Wayne! Clark Kent, Daily Planet.
- Bruce Wayne: Oh, my foundation's already issued a statement in support of, uh, books.
- Clark Kent: I'm sorry?
- Bruce Wayne: [watching Diana Prince walk away] Wow. Pretty girl, bad habit. Don't quote me, alright?
- Diana Prince: The others like me... Why did you say they'll have to fight?
- Bruce Wayne: Just a feeling.
- Batman: Whatever you do, wherever you go, I will be watching you.
- Lex Luthor: But the bell's already been rung.