31 Most Iconic Lines From Batman Movies

28. The Devil?

The Quote: "You're not the devil. You're practice."

The power of Batman is in his contradictions: by day he is an arrogant, conceited entrepreneur, unimposing in physical terms, but by night he is the personification of fear and a terrible foe in battle. In Batman Begins we see a blurring of those two lines as the man learns to become a blunt instrument in the most extreme of conditions, and again, it is his opponent's false confidence that makes his loaded retort all the more bad-ass.

This is the real Bruce Wayne, with his playboy facade peeled back, and one of the only moments in the entire Batman franchise that offers such a contradiction of identities, which is important to remember later when we see Wayne playing his society face well.

27. "Be The Outcast"

The Quote:

Bruce Wayne: People are dying, Alfred. What would you have me do?

Alfred Pennyworth: Endure, Master Wayne. Take it. They'll hate you for it, but that's the point of Batman, he can be the outcast. He can make the choice that no one else can make, the right choice.

As if it needed further reiteration, in Nolan's world it wasn't Bruce Wayne who strictly came up with the idea of Batman as a symbol in the correct terms: yes, he did realise that wearing a mask would make him more important than not, but it was paternal influence Alfred and his near-permanently wet face who established the defining rules of Batman. He was the exponent of Batman as a "by any means" scourge of the criminal world from the shadows, and while he later contradicts himself in trying to make Bruce feel guilty for his choices, it was him that actually encouraged them in the first place.