Iron Man Quotes

Agent Phil Coulson: I'm Agent Phil Coulson with the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division.

Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: That's quite a mouthful.

Agent Phil Coulson: I know. We're working on it.

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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.

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Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: [about Stark's old arc reactor] What do you want me to do with this?

Tony Stark: That? Destroy it. Incinerate it.

Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: You don't want to keep it?

Tony Stark: Pepper, I've been called many things. Nostalgic is not one of them.

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Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: [upon seeing Stark wearing a machine around his arm] I thought you said you were done making weapons?

Tony Stark: It isn't. This is a flight stabilizer. It's completely harmless.
[Stark is blasted back by the force of the machine]

Tony Stark: I didn't expect that.

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Tony Stark: How'd it go?
[Stark sees a pizza box on the table]

Tony Stark: Oh, that bad, huh?

Obadiah Stane: Just because I brought pizza back from New York doesn't mean it went bad.

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[accidentally burning his restored car collection by hovering above them]

Tony Stark: Okay, this is where I don't want to be.

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Jarvis: [while Tony is wearing the Mark II Armor] Test complete. Preparing to power down and begin diagnostics...

Tony Stark: Uh, yeah, tell you what. Do a weather and ATC check, start listening in on ground control.

Jarvis: Sir, there are still terabytes of calculations required before an actual flight is...

Tony Stark: Jarvis... sometimes you gotta run before you can walk.

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Tony Stark: Where'd you get that dress?

Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: It was a birthday present... from you, actually.

Tony Stark: I got great taste, don't I? You, uh, wanna dance?

Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: Oh, no, thank you.

Tony Stark: [leading her to the dance floor] All right, come on.

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Obadiah Stane: [to Raza] Technology. That's always been your Achilles heel in this part of the world.

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Natalie Rushman: Will that be all, Mr, Stark?

Tony Stark, Pepper Potts: No...
[Pepper talking over Tony]

Pepper Potts: Yes. Yes that will be all, Ms. Rushman.

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[taken away by the police]

Ivan Vanko: You lose, Stark! You lose!

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Ivan Vanko: Hey, Tony. Before you go, palladium in the chest, painful way to die.
[after a moment's pause, Tony leaves; Vanko chortles to himself]

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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.

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William Ginter Riva: Mr. Stane. Sir, we've explored what you've asked us and it seems as though there's a little hiccup. Actually, um...

Obadiah Stane: A hiccup?

William Ginter Riva: Yes, see, to power the suit... sir, the technology doesn't actually exist. So it...

Obadiah Stane: Wait, wait, the technology?
[puts an arm around him]

Obadiah Stane: William, William...
[points at the giant arc reactor]

Obadiah Stane: Here is the technology. I've asked you to simply make it smaller.

William Ginter Riva: All right, and that's what we're trying to do, but... honestly, it's impossible.

Obadiah Stane: [shouting] Tony Stark was able to build this in a cave! With a box of scraps!

William Ginter Riva: Well, I'm sorry. I'm not Tony Stark.

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Obadiah Stane: [to Stark] When I ordered the hit on you, I was worried that I was killing the golden goose. But, you see, it was just fate that you survived it, leaving one last golden egg to give. You really think that just because you have an idea, it belongs to you? Your father, he helped give us the atomic bomb. Now what kind of world would it be today if he was as selfish as you?

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Obadiah Stane: You ripped out my targeting system... Hold still, you little prick!

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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.

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Pratt: Is it true that you went twelve-for-twelve with the Maxim Girls last year?

Tony Stark: That is an excellent question. Yes and no. March and I had a scheduling conflict but fortunately the Christmas cover was twins.

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Tony Stark: [explaining to Jim Rhodes as to why he was late for his plane] I got stuck doing a piece for Vanity Fair.

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Tony Stark: [to Jimmy, who's raising his hand] You're kidding me with the hand up, right?

Jimmy: Is it cool if I take a picture with you?

Tony Stark: Yes, it's very cool.
[Jimmy hands Pratt his camera and poses with a peace sign]

Tony Stark: I don't want to see this on your myspace page. Please no gang signs.
[Jimmy lowers hand]

Tony Stark: No, throw it up. I'm kidding. Yeah, peace. I love peace. I'd be out of a job for peace.

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Agent Phil Coulson: Mr. Stark.

Tony Stark: Yeah?

Agent Phil Coulson: Agent Coulson.

Tony Stark: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, the guy from the...

Agent Phil Coulson: Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division.

Tony Stark: Whew! God, you really need a new name for that.

Agent Phil Coulson: Yeah, I hear that a lot.

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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.

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Rhodey: [to Pepper at Tony's press conference after returning from Afghanistan] What's with the love in?

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Yinsen: That doesn't look like the Jericho missile.

Tony Stark: That's because it is a miniaturized arc reactor. I've got a big one powering my factory at home.

Yinsen: What will it generate?

Tony Stark: If my math is right - and it always is - three gigajoules per second.

Yinsen: [amazed] That could run your heart for fifty lifetimes!

Tony Stark: Yeah... or something big for fifteen minutes.

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Obadiah Stane: I've never really had a taste for this kind of thing, but I must admit I'm deeply enjoying the suit!

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[Tony suggests doing something different besides manufacturing weapons]

Obadiah Stane: Like what? Make baby bottles.

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Tony Stark: She's right. The party's over. Then again, the party was over for me, like, an hour and a half ago. The after party starts in 15 fifteen minutes.
[under his breath]

Tony Stark: And if anybody, Pepper, doesn't like it, there's the door.
[accidentally fires his repulsar]

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Justin Hammer: This isn't a helmet, this is a head... Ivan, what's going on?

Ivan Vanko: Drone better.

Justin Hammer: Drone better? What, why drone better? Ivan, I got an order for suits, not drones!

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Tony Stark: You didn't know my father.

Nick Fury: As a matter of fact, he was the founding member of S.H.I.E.L.D.

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Tony Stark: [Tony and Rhodey are on Tony's elaborate plane sitting at a table. Rhodey is reading a newspaper] Whatcha readin'... platypus?

Rhodey: Nothin'.

Tony Stark: Come on sour patch.

Rhodey: I told you I'm not sour...

Tony Stark: ...don't be mad...

Rhodey: ...i'm not mad, i'm indifferent, ok.

Tony Stark: I said I was sorry.

Rhodey: You don't need to apologize to me cause I'm not mad.

Stewardess: Good morning Mr. Stark.

Tony Stark: [addressing the stewardess] Hi, I said I was sorry.

Rhodey: ...i'm just indifferent right now.

Stewardess: [to Tony] Hot towel?

Rhodey: You don't respect yourself so I know you don't respect me...

Tony Stark: ...I respect you...

Tony Stark: ...so I'm just your baby sitter. so when you need your diaper changed
[receives a hot towel from the stewardess]

Tony Stark: thank you
[readdresses Tony]

Tony Stark: let me know and I'll get you a bottle, ok?

Tony Stark: Hey! Heat up the saki will ya? Thanks for reminding me.

Rhodey: I'm not talkin about a... we're not drinking we're working right now.

Rhodey: You are institutionally incapable of being responsible.

Tony Stark: It would be irresponsible NOT to drink. I'm just talking about a night cap here.
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