The Dark Knight Rises Quotes

The Dark Knight Rises is a TV program that debuted in 1970 . The Dark Knight Rises stopped airing in 1970.

It features Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan, and Charles Roven as producer, Hans Zimmer in charge of musical score, and Wally Pfister as head of cinematography.

The Dark Knight Rises is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of The Dark Knight Rises is 165 minutes long. The Dark Knight Rises is distributed by Warner Bros..

The cast includes: Gary Oldman as Jim Gordon, Christian Bale as Batman, Tom Hardy as Bane, Anne Hathaway as Catwoman, Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox, Michael Caine as Alfred, and Michael Caine as Alfred Pennyworth.

The Dark Knight Rises Quotes

Michael Caine as Alfred

• (Michael Caine) "Don't worry, Master Wayne. It takes a little time to get back into the swing of things."

• (Michael Caine) "That is a man who fights with the power of belief."

• (Michael Caine) "You are as precious to me as you were to your own mother and father. I swore to them that I would protect you, and I haven't."

• (Michael Caine) "I'm so sorry. I failed you. You trusted me, and I failed you."

• (Michael Caine) "You two should exchange notes over coffee."
• (Bruce Wayne) "So now you're trying to set me up with a jewel thief?"
• (Michael Caine) "At this point, I'd set you up with a chimpanzee if it'd brought you back to the world."
• (Bruce Wayne) "There's nothing out there for me."
• (Michael Caine) "And that's the problem. You hung up your cape and your cowl, but you didn't move on, you never went to find a life, to find someone --"
• (Bruce Wayne) "Alfred -- I did find someone."
• (Michael Caine) "I know, and you lost her. But that's all part of living, sir. But you're not living. You're just waiting, hoping for things to go bad again."

• (Michael Caine) "Remember when you left Gotham? Before all this, before Batman? You were gone seven years. Seven years I waited, hoping that you wouldn't come back. Every year, I took a holiday. I went to Florence, there's this cafe, on the banks of the Arno. Every fine evening, I'd sit there and order a Fernet Branca. I had this fantasy, that I would look across the tables and I'd see you there, with a wife and maybe a couple of kids. You wouldn't say anything to me, nor me to you. But we'd both know that you'd made it, that you were happy. I never wanted you to come back to Gotham. I always knew there was nothing here for you, except pain and tragedy. And I wanted something more for you than that. I still do."

• (Michael Caine) "If you're seriously considering going back out there, you should hear the rumors surrounding Bane."
• (Bruce Wayne) "I'm all ears."
• (Michael Caine) "There is a prison in a more ancient part of the world, a pit where men are thrown to suffer and die. But sometimes a man rises from the darkness. Sometimes the pit sends something back."
• (Bruce Wayne) "Bane."
• (Michael Caine) "Right. Born and raised in hell on earth."
• (Bruce Wayne) "Born in prison?"
• (Michael Caine) "No one knows why or how he escaped, but they do know that once he did he was trained by Ra's Al Ghul, your mentor."
• (Bruce Wayne) "Bane was a member of The League of Shadows."
• (Michael Caine) "And then he was excommunicated. And any man who is too extreme for Ra's Al Ghul is not to be trifled with."

• (Michael Caine) "Is it really painful?"
• (Bruce Wayne) "Well, you're welcome to try it, Alfred."
• (Michael Caine) "Happy watching, thank you, sir."

Gary Oldman as Jim Gordon

• (Gary Oldman) "I never cared who you were --"
• (Christian Bale) "And you were right."
• (Gary Oldman) "-- but shouldn't the people know the hero whot saved them?"
• (Christian Bale) "A hero can be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a young boy's shoulders to let him know that the world hadn't ended."
• (Gary Oldman) "Bruce Wayne?"

• (John Blake) "Sir, Congressman Gilly's wife has been calling in. Apparently the Congressman never made it home after the Wayne Foundation event."
• (Gary Oldman) "That's a job for the police."
• (John Blake) "When you and Dent cleaned up the streets, you cleaned them good. Pretty soon we'll be chasing down uh -- overdue library books. And yet, here you are, like we're still at war."
• (Gary Oldman) "What's your name, son?"
• (John Blake) "Blake, sir."
• (Gary Oldman) "You got something you wanna ask me, Officer Blake?"
• (John Blake) "It's about that night, this night, eight years ago. The night Dent died, the last confirmed sighting of the Batman. He murders those people, takes down two SWAT teams, breaks Dent's neck and then just -- vanishes?"
• (Gary Oldman) "I'm not hearing a question, son."
• (John Blake) "Don't you wanna know who he was?"
• (Gary Oldman) "I know exactly who he was. He was the Batman."
• (Gary Oldman) "Let's go see about the Congressman's wife."

• (Gary Oldman) "We could use some hotter heads around here."

• (Gary Oldman) "I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy. I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known."

• (Gary Oldman) "No lawyer, no witnesses? What sort of due process is this?"
• (Dr. Jonathan Crane) "Your guilt has been determined. This is merely a sentencing hearing. Now, what will it be? Death or Exile?"
• (Gary Oldman) "Crane, if you think we're going to walk out on that ice willingly, you got another thing coming."
• (Dr. Jonathan Crane) "So it's death then?"
• (Gary Oldman) "Looks that way."
• (Dr. Jonathan Crane) "Very well. Death."
• (Dr. Jonathan Crane) "By exile."

Tom Hardy as Bane

• (Bruce Wayne) "Why didn't you just -- kill me?"
• (Tom Hardy) "You don't fear death -- You welcome it. Your punishment must be more severe."
• (Bruce Wayne) "Torture?"
• (Tom Hardy) "Yes. But not of your body -- Of your soul."
• (Bruce Wayne) "Where am I?"
• (Tom Hardy) "Home, where I learned the truth about despair, as will you. There's a reason why this prison is the worst hell on earth -- Hope. Every man who has ventured here over the centuries has looked up to the light and imagined climbing to freedom. So easy -- So simple -- And like shipwrecked men turning to sea water from uncontrollable thirst, many have died trying. I learned here that there can be no true despair without hope. So, as I terrorize Gotham, I will feed its people hope to poison their souls. I will let them believe they can survive so that you can watch them clamoring over each other to "stay in the sun." You can watch me torture an entire city and when you have truly understood the depth of your failure, we will fulfill Ra's al Ghul's destiny -- We will destroy Gotham and then, when it is done and Gotham is ashes, then you have my permission to die"

• (Captain Jones) "I'll die before I talk."
• (Tom Hardy) "I'm on your schedule, captain."

• (CIA Agent) "The flight plan I just filed with the agency lists me, my men, Dr. Pavel here but only one of you. First one to talk gets to stay on my aircraft."
• (CIA Agent) "Who paid you to grab Dr. Pavel?"
• (CIA Agent) "He didn't fly so good."
• (CIA Agent) "Who wants to try next?"
• (CIA Agent) "Tell me about Bane. Why does he wear the mask? A lot of loyalty, for a hired gun."
• (Tom Hardy) "Or perhaps he's wondering why someone would shoot a man, before throwing him out of a plane?"
• (CIA Agent) "At least you can talk. Who are you?"
• (Tom Hardy) "It doesn't matter who we are, what matters is our plan."
• (Tom Hardy) "No one cared who I was until I put on the mask."
• (CIA Agent) "If I pull that off, would you die?"
• (Tom Hardy) "It would be extremely painful."
• (CIA Agent) "You're a big guy."
• (Tom Hardy) "For you."
• (CIA Agent) "Was getting caught part of your plan?"
• (Tom Hardy) "Of course -- Dr. Pavel refused our offer in favor of yours, we had to find out what he told you."
• (Dr. Pavel) "Nothing. I said nothing."
• (CIA Agent) "Well, congratulations. You got yourself caught. Now what's the next step in your master plan?"
• (Tom Hardy) "Crashing this plane -- with no survivors."

• (Tom Hardy) "We take Gotham from the corrupt. The rich. The oppressors of generations who have kept you down with myths of opportunity, and we give it back to you -- the people. Gotham is yours. None shall interfere. Do as you please. Start by storming Blackgate, and freeing the oppressed. Step forward those who would serve. For and army will be raised. The powerful will be ripped from their decadent nests, and cast out into the cold world that we know and endure. Courts will be convened. Spoils will be enjoyed. Blood will be shed. The police will survive, as they learn to serve true justice. This great city -- it will endure. Gotham will survive."

• (Tom Hardy) "Peace has cost you your strength. Victory has defeated you."

• (Sewer Thug #1) "It's the police commissioner."
• (Tom Hardy) "And you brought him down here?"
• (Sewer Thug #1) "We didn't know what to do."
• (Tom Hardy) "You panicked, and your weakness has cost the lives of three others."
• (Sewer Thug #1) "No he's alone --"
• (Tom Hardy) "Search him, then I will kill you."
• (Sewer Thug #2) "He's dead."
• (Tom Hardy) "So show me his body."
• (Sewer Thug #2) "The water runs to any one of the outflows. We'll never find him."
• (Tom Hardy) "Follow him."
• (Sewer Thug #2) "Follow him?"

• (Trader #1) "This is a stock exchange. There's no money you can steal."
• (Tom Hardy) "Really? Then why are you people here?"

• (Tom Hardy) "Calm down, Doctor. Now's not the time for fear. That comes later."

• (Tom Hardy) "Gotham, take control. Take control of your city. This -- this is the instrument of your liberation."
• (Tom Hardy) "Identify yourself to the world."
• (Dr. Pavel) "Dr. Leonid Pavel, nuclear physicist."
• (Tom Hardy) "And what -- what is this?"
• (Dr. Pavel) "It's a -- fully primed neutron bomb, with a blast radius of six miles."
• (Tom Hardy) "And who is capable of disarming such a device?"
• (Dr. Pavel) "Only me."
• (Tom Hardy) "Only you. Thank you, doctor."
• (Tom Hardy) "Now, this bomb is armed. This bomb is mobile. And the identity of the triggerman is a mystery. For one of you holds the detonator. And we came here not as conquerors, but as liberators to return control of this city to the people. And at the first sign of interference from the outside world, or for those people attempting to flee, this anonymous Gothamite; this unsung hero; will trigger the bomb. For now, martial law is in effect. Return to your homes, hold your families close, and wait. Tomorrow you claim what is rightfully yours."

• (Tom Hardy) "Theatricality and deception are powerful agents to the uninitiated -- but we are initiated, aren't we Bruce? Members of the League of Shadows."
• (Tom Hardy) "And you betrayed us."
• (Christian Bale) "You were excommunicated -- by a gang of psychopaths."
• (Tom Hardy) "I AM the League of Shadows, and I'm here to fulfill Ra's al Ghul's destiny."
• (Tom Hardy) "You fight like a younger man, with nothing held back. Admirable but mistaken."
• (Tom Hardy) "Oh, you think darkness is your ally. But you merely adopted the dark; I was born in it, moulded by it. I didn't see the light until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but BLINDING."
• (Tom Hardy) "The shadows betray you, because they belong to me."
• (Tom Hardy) "I will show you where I have made my home while preparing to bring justice. Then I will break you."
• (Tom Hardy) "Your precious armory, gratefully accepted. We will need it."
• (Tom Hardy) "Ah, yes -- I was wondering what would break first --"
• (Tom Hardy) "Your spirit, or your body?"

• (Tom Hardy) "What a lovely, lovely voice."
• (Tom Hardy) "Let the games begin."

• (Tom Hardy) "Hang them where the world can see."

• (Tom Hardy) "I broke you. How have you come back?"
• (Christian Bale) "You think you're the only one who can find the strength to escape? Where's the trigger?"
• (Tom Hardy) "But I never escaped."
• (Christian Bale) "But the child -- the child of Ra's al Ghul made the climb."
• (Miranda Tate) "But he's not the child of Ra's al Ghul"
• (Miranda Tate) "I am. And though I'm not ordinary, I am a citizen."
• (Christian Bale) "Miranda -- why?"
• (Miranda Tate) "Talia. My mother named me Talia before she was killed, the way I would've been killed if not for my protector: Bane."

• (Tom Hardy) "Behind you is a symbol of oppression. Blackgate Prison, where a thousand men have languished under the name of this man,"
• (Tom Hardy) "Harvey Dent, who has been held up to you as the shining example of justice."
• (John Blake) "Commissioner, we need to keep you moving until we can get you in front of a camera."
• (Tom Hardy) "You have been supplied with a false idol to stop you from tearing down this CORRUPT CITY. Let me tell you the truth about Harvey Dent from the words of Gotham's police commissioner, James Gordon."
• (Tom Hardy) ""The Batman didn't murder Harvey Dent, he saved my boy then took the blame for Harvey's appalling crimes so that I could, to my shame, build a lie around this fallen idol. I praised the mad man who tried to murder my own child but I can no longer live with my lie. It is time to trust the people of Gotham with the truth and it is time for me to resign.""
• (Tom Hardy) "And do you accept this man's resignation? Do you accept the resignation of all these liars? Of all the CORRUPT?"
• (John Blake) "Those men locked up for eight years in Blackgate, and denied parole under the Dent Act, based on a lie?"
• (Gary Oldman) "Gotham needed a hero --"
• (John Blake) "It needs it now more than ever. You betrayed everything you stood for."
• (Gary Oldman) "There's a point, far out there when the structures fail you, and the rules aren't weapons anymore, they're -- shackles letting the bad guy get ahead. One day -- you may face such a moment of crisis. And in that moment, I hope you have a friend like I did, to plunge their hands into the filth so that you can keep yours clean."
• (John Blake) "Your hands look plenty filthy to me, Commissioner."

• (Trader #1) "This is a stock exchange. There's no money you can steal."
• (Tom Hardy) "Really? Then why are you people here?"

• (Tom Hardy) "So, you came back to die with your city."
• (Christian Bale) "No. I came back to stop you."

Christian Bale as Batman

• (Christian Bale) "Tell me where the trigger is. Then -- you have my permission to die."

• (Christian Bale) "He was trying to kill millions of innocent people"
• (Talia al Ghul) "'Innocent' is a strong word to throw around Gotham, Bruce. I honor my father by finishing his work. Vengeance against the man who killed him is simply a reward for my patience --"
• (Talia al Ghul) "You see, it's the slow knife -- the knife that takes its time, the knife that waits years without forgetting, then slips quietly between the bones -- that's the knife that cuts deepest."

• (Christian Bale) "Maybee your knife -- was too slow."
• (Barsad) "The truck is under attack."
• (Talia al Ghul) "Gordon. You gave him a way to block my signal. No matter."
• (Talia al Ghul) "He's bought Gotham eleven minutes."

• (Christian Bale) "This blocks the remote detonator signal to the bomb. Get it onto it before sunrise. They might hit the button when it starts."
• (Gary Oldman) "When what starts?"
• (Christian Bale) "War."

Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox

• (Morgan Freeman) "Nothing like a little air superiority, isn't it?"

• (Morgan Freeman) "It has a long uninteresting name. I just took to calling it -- The Bat, and yes, Mr. Wayne, it does come in black."

• (Miranda Tate) "You brought me out here to show me this, Mr. Fox?"
• (Morgan Freeman) "Bear with me, Miss Tate."
• (Morgan Freeman) "Please keep hands and feet inside the car at all times."
• (Miranda Tate) "This is it, isn't it?"
• (Morgan Freeman) "The reactor is beneath the river so it could be instantly flooded in the event of a security breach."
• (Miranda Tate) "Is Bruce Wayne really that paranoid?"
• (Morgan Freeman) "I'm gonna plead the fifth on that one."
• (Bruce Wayne) "I thought you might like to see what your investment built."
• (Miranda Tate) "No fossil fuels. Free, clean energy for an entire city. Three years ago, a Russian scientist published a paper on weaponized fusion reactions. One week later your reactor started developing problems. I think this machine works."
• (Bruce Wayne) "Miranda, if it were operational, the danger to Gotham would be too great."
• (Miranda Tate) "Would it make you feel better to know that the Russian scientist died in a plane crash six months ago?"
• (Bruce Wayne) "Someone will work out what Dr. Pavel did. Someone will figure out a way to make this power source into a nuclear weapon. I need you to take control of Wayne Enterprises and this reactor."
• (Miranda Tate) "To do what with it?"
• (Bruce Wayne) "Nothing. Until we can guarantee its safety."
• (Miranda Tate) "And if we can't?"
• (Bruce Wayne) "Decommission it and flood it."
• (Miranda Tate) "Destroy the world's best chance for a sustainable future?"
• (Bruce Wayne) "If the world's not ready, yes."
• (Miranda Tate) "Bruce, if you want to save the world you have to start trusting it."
• (Bruce Wayne) "I'm trusting you."
• (Miranda Tate) "Doesn't count. You have no choice."
• (Bruce Wayne) "I could have flooded this chamber any time in the last three years. I'm choosing to trust you. Please."

• (Morgan Freeman) "This conversation used to end with an unusual request."
• (Bruce Wayne) "I'm retired."
• (Morgan Freeman) "Well let me show you some stuff anyway. Just for old time's sake."

• (Morgan Freeman) "Remember where you parked?"

Anne Hathaway as Catwoman

• (Anne Hathaway) "I blow that tunnel open, I'm gone."
• (Christian Bale) "There's more to you than that."
• (Anne Hathaway) "Sorry I keep letting you down."
• (Anne Hathaway) "Come with me. Save yourself. You don't owe these people any more. You've given them everything."
• (Christian Bale) "Not everything. Not yet."

• (Anne Hathaway) "About the whole no guns thing -- I'm not sure I feel as strongly about it as you do."

• (Anne Hathaway) "Stay back."
• (Anne Hathaway) "I'm not bluffing."
• (Christian Bale) "They know. They just don't care."

• (Anne Hathaway) "You've gotta be kidding me."
• (Christian Bale) "No guns, no killing."
• (Anne Hathaway) "Where's the fun in that?"

• (Anne Hathaway) "I had no choice. I needed a way to keep them from killing me."
• (Christian Bale) "You just made a serious mistake."
• (Tom Hardy) "Not as serious as yours, I fear --"
• (Christian Bale) "Bane"
• (Tom Hardy) "Let us not stand on ceremony, Mr. Wayne."

• (Anne Hathaway) "My mother warned me about getting into cars with strange men."
• (Christian Bale) "This isn't a car."

• (Anne Hathaway) "See you around."
• (Christian Bale) "You're welcome."
• (Anne Hathaway) "I had it under control."
• (Christian Bale) "Those weren't street thugs, they were trained killers. I saved your life. In return I need to know what you did with Bruce Wayne's fingerprints."
• (Anne Hathaway) "Wayne wasn't kidding about a "powerful friend"."
• (Anne Hathaway) "I sold his prints to Daggett. For something that doesn't even exist."
• (Christian Bale) "I doubt many people get the better of you."
• (Anne Hathaway) "Hey, when a girl's desperate."
• (Christian Bale) "What's he gonna to do with them?"
• (Anne Hathaway) "I don't know. But Daggett seemed pretty interested in that mess at the stock market."
• (Christian Bale) "Miss Kyle?"
• (Christian Bale) "So that's what that feels like --"

• (Anne Hathaway) "He's behind you."
• (Mercenary) "Who?"
• (Christian Bale) "Me."

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