31 Most Iconic Lines From Batman Movies
14. Uncorruptible... Everlasting.
The Quote: People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy and I cant do that as Bruce Wayne. As a man Im flesh and blood, I can be ignored, I can be destroyed, but as a symbol, as a symbol I can be incorruptible. I can be everlasting.
After he travels around the world finding himself - and something else entirely along the way - Bruce returns to his ancestral home and his societal expectations, and the transition in the film's arc is marked rather succinctly by this nailed-on definition of everything that Batman represents.
When anyone throws accusations at caped and masked crusaders this is basically the response that should leap up Batman fans' throats every time.
13. Needs Must
The Quote: Im whatever Gotham needs me to be.
The count on hugely quotable Batman lines in Nolan's trilogy is as high as the god-awful puns in Batman And Robin, and though there are some accusations that the script lacked any kind of subtlety, there's no compromise in the feeling lines like this inspire.
And it is precisely this purse-lipped self-importance that fixed the image of Batman as a plastic nippled, shiny-crotched walking camp factory as he had become.