Memorable quotes for
Iron Man (2008)

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Tony Stark: [toasting after giving a weapon's demonstration] To Peace.

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Christine Everheart: Mr. Stark! Christine Everheart, Vanity Fair magazine. Can I ask you a couple of questions?
Hogan: [whispers to Stark] She's cute.
Tony Stark: [whispers to Hogan] She's alright?
[turns around]
Tony Stark: Hi!
Christine Everheart: Hi.
Tony Stark: Yeah. Okay, go.
Christine Everheart: You've been called the Da Vinci of our time. What do you say to that?
Tony Stark: Absolutely ridiculous. I don't paint.
Christine Everheart: And what do you say to your other nickname, the Merchant of Death?
Tony Stark: That's not bad. Let me guess... Berkeley?
Christine Everheart: Brown, actually.
Tony Stark: Well, Ms. Brown. It's an imperfect world, but it's the only one we got. I guarantee you the day weapons are no longer needed to keep the peace, I'll start making bricks and beams for baby hospitals.
Christine Everheart: Rehearse that much?
Tony Stark: Every night in front of the mirror before bedtime.
Christine Everheart: I can see that.
Tony Stark: I'd like to show you firsthand.

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Tony Stark: Is it better to be feared or respected? I say, is it too much to ask for both?

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Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: [walking in on Stark's robots trying to get him out of the Iron Man suit] What is going on here?
Tony Stark: Let's face it, this is not the worst thing you've caught me doing.
Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: Are those bullet holes?

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Tony Stark: [reading the newspaper] Iron Man? That's kinda catchy.

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[after testing the suit's capabilities]
Tony Stark: Yeah. I can fly.

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Jim Rhodes: [eyeing an extra Iron Man suit] Next time, baby.

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Jim Rhodes: [whispering] Just stick to the cards, sir.
Tony Stark: [holds up his notes and pauses, then puts them down] The truth is... I am Iron Man.

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Tony Stark: I never got to say goodbye to my father. There's questions I would've asked him. I would've asked him how he felt about what his company did, if he was conflicted, if he ever had doubts. Or maybe he was every inch of man we remember from the newsreels. I saw young Americans killed by the very weapons I created to defend them and protect them. And I saw that I had become part of a system that is comfortable with zero-accountability.
Press Reporter #1: Mr. Stark, what happened over there?
Tony Stark: I had my eyes opened. I came to realize that I had more to offer this world than just making things that blow up. And that is why, effective immediately, I am shutting down the weapons manufacturing division of Stark Industries.

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Tony Stark: Give me a scotch. I'm starving.

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Jim Rhodes: You owe me a plane.
Tony Stark: Yeah, well, technically he hit me, so...

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Nick Fury: [quoting Tony Stark from his press conference] "I am Iron Man." You think you're the only superhero in the world? Mr. Stark, you've become part of a bigger universe. You just don't know it yet.
Tony Stark: Who the hell are you?
Nick Fury: Nick Fury, Director of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Tony Stark: [nonchalantly] Ah.
Nick Fury: I'm here to talk to you about the Avengers Initiative.

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Jim Rhodes: As liaison to Stark Industries, I have a unique privilege of serving with a real patriot. He is my friend, and he is my great mentor. Ladies and gentlemen, it is my honor to present this year's Apogee Award to Mr. Tony Stark!
[crowd applauses]
Jim Rhodes: Tony?
[Stark is not present, so Stane approaches the stage]
Obadiah Stane: [accepting the award] Thank you, Colonel. This is beautiful. Thank you all very much. This is wonderful. Well, I'm not Tony Stark. But if I were Tony, I would tell you how honored I feel, and what a joy it is to receive this very prestigious award. Tony, you know, the best thing about Tony is also the worst thing - he's always working.
[cuts to Stark playing craps in a casino]

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Tony Stark: My old man had a philosophy. Peace means having a bigger stick than the other guy.
Christine Everheart: That's a great line, coming from a guy selling the sticks.
Tony Stark: My father helped defeat Nazis. He worked on the Manhattan Project. A lot of people, including your professors at Brown, would call that being a hero.
Christine Everheart: And a lot of people would also call that war-profiteering.

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Christine Everheart: Have you ever lost an hour of sleep your whole life?
Tony Stark: I'd be prepared to lose a few with you.

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Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: You are supposed to be half way around the world by now.
Tony Stark: How'd she take it?
Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: Like a champ.
Tony Stark: Why are you trying to hustle me out of here?
Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: Your flight was scheduled to leave an hour and a half ago.
Tony Stark: It's funny, I though with it being my plane and all that it would just wait for me to get there...
Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: Tony I need to speak to you about a couple of things before I get you out...
Tony Stark: I mean doesn't it kind of defeat the whole purpose of having your own plane if it departs before you arrive?

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Tony Stark: What are you trying to get rid of me for? You got plans?
Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: As a matter of fact, I do.
Tony Stark: I don't like it when you have plans.
Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: I'm allowed to have plans on my birthday.
Tony Stark: It's your birthday?
Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: Yes.
Tony Stark: I knew that. Already?
Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: Yeah, isn't that strange? It's the same day as last year...
Tony Stark: Well, get yourself something nice for me.
Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: I already did.
Tony Stark: Yeah? Nice?
Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: Oh, it's very nice, yes... very tasteful. Thank you, Mr. Stark.
Tony Stark: You're welcome, Ms. Potts.

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Jim Rhodes: Hey Tony.
Tony Stark: I'm sorry. This is the fun-vee. The hum-drum-vee is back there.

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Yinsen: [to Stark, while in captivity] Do as I do.

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[first lines]
Tony Stark: I feel like you're driving me to court martial. This is crazy. What did I do? I feel like you're gonna pull over and snuff me. What, you're not allowed to talk? Hey, Forest...
Jimmy: We can talk, sir.
Tony Stark: Oh, I see. So it's personal.
Ramirez: No, you intimidate them.
Tony Stark: Good God, you're a woman! I honestly, I couldn't have called that. I mean, I would apologize, but isn't that what we're going for here? I thought of you as a soldier first.
Ramirez: I'm an airman.
Tony Stark: Well you have actually excellent bone structure there. I'm kinda having a hard time not looking at you now. Is that weird?
[soldiers laugh]

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Tony Stark: You got a family?
Yinsen: Yes, and I will see them when I leave here. And you, Stark?
Tony Stark: [quietly] No.
Yinsen: So you're a man who has everything, but nothing.

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Tony Stark: We gotta go. Come on, move with me. We got a plan, and we're going to stick to it.
Yinsen: This was always the plan, Stark.
Tony Stark: Come on, you're going to go see your family again.
Yinsen: My family's dead. I'm going to see them now, Stark. It's okay. I want this.

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Yinsen: [to Stark after Stark thanks him for saving his life] Don't waste two lives.

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Tony Stark: [after crash-landing in the desert] Not bad.

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Jim Rhodes: [upon rescuing Stark] How was the fun-vee?

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Tony Stark: Hmmm. Your eyes are red. Tears for your long lost boss?
Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: Tears of joy, maybe. I hate job hunting.
Tony Stark: Yeah, well, vacation's over.

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Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: Tony, you have to go to the hospital. The doctor has to look at you.
Tony Stark: I don't have to do anything. I've been in captivity for three months. There are two things I want to do. One, I want an American cheeseburger, and the other...
Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: That's not going to happen.
Tony Stark: It's not what you think. I want you to call for a press conference now.
Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: Call for a press conference? What on earth for?
Tony Stark: Yeah, Hogan, drive. Cheeseburger first.

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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: [referring to Stark's old heart machine] 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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Tony Stark: [to Jarvis, before doing a flying test run] Sometimes you gotta run before you can walk.

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Tony Stark: [to Jarvis] Don't wait up for me, honey.

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Tony Stark: [to Stan Lee] Lookin' great, Hef.

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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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Jim Rhodes: [talking over phone] What the hell is that noise?
Tony Stark: I'm driving with the top down.
Jim Rhodes: Well, I need your help right now.
Tony Stark: Funny how that works, huh?
Jim Rhodes: Yeah. Speaking of funny, we got a weapons depot that was just blown up a few klicks from where you were being held.
Tony Stark: Well, I'd say that's a hot spot. Sounds...
[takes a breath]
Tony Stark: like someone stepped in and did your job for you.
Jim Rhodes: Why do you sound out of breath, Tony?
Tony Stark: I'm not. I was just jogging through the canyon.
Jim Rhodes: I thought you were driving.
Tony Stark: Right, I was driving... to the canyon... where I'm going for a jog.
Jim Rhodes: You sure you don't have any tech in that area I should know about?
Tony Stark: Nope.
Jim Rhodes: Good, because we got a lock on something and we're about to blow it to kingdom come.

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Jim Rhodes: This isn't a game. You do not send civilian equipment into my active war zone. Do you understand me? Do you understand that?
Tony Stark: It's not a piece of equipment. It's a suit. It's me!

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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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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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Engineer: 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?
Engineer: Yes, see to power the suit... sir, the technology doesn't actually exist. So it...
Obadiah Stane: Wait, wait, the technology? Here is the technology. I've asked you to simply make it smaller.
Engineer: Sir, the technology doesn't exist. Honestly, it's impossible.
Obadiah Stane: [yelling] Tony Stark was able to build this in a cave! With a box of scraps!
Engineer: 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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Jim Rhodes: [seeing Stark in the Iron Man suit] That's the coolest thing I've ever seen.
Tony Stark: Not bad, huh?

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Agent Phil Coulson: This isn't my first rodeo, Mr. Stark.

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Jim Rhodes: Anything I can do?
Iron Man: Keep the skies clear.

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Obadiah Stane: Hold still, you little prick!

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Jarvis: Sir, it appears his suit can fly.
Tony Stark: Duly noted. Take me to maximum altitude.
Jarvis: Sir, at 19% power, the odds of reaching that altitude...
Tony Stark: [cutting in] I know the math! Do it!

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Obadiah Stane: [discussing the company's future with Tony] We're iron mongers, we make weapons.

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Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: [after Stark's one night stand with Christine] I have your clothes here; they've been dry cleaned and pressed. And there's a car waiting for you outside that will take you anywhere you'd like to go.
Christine Everheart: You must be the famous Pepper Potts.
Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: [smiles and nods] Indeed I am.
Christine Everheart: After all these years, Tony still has you picking up the dry cleaning.
Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: I do anything and everything Mr. Stark requires. Including occasionally taking out the trash. Will that be all?

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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.
[performs test then lands]
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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Iron Monger: Face it, Tony, my suit is more advanced in every way!
Iron Man: Yeah? How'd you fix the icing problem?
Iron Monger: Icing problem?
[his suit begins to fail]
Iron Man: [knocks on the other suit's frozen helmet as Obadiah begins to fall away from him] Might want to look into it.

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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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Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: Agent Couslon, I just wanted to say thank you very much for all of your help.
Agent Phil Coulson: That's what we do. You'll be hearing from us.
Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: From the Strategic Homeland...
Agent Phil Coulson: [interrupting] Just call us S.H.I.E.L.D.

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[repeated line]
Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: Will that be all, Mr. Stark?
Tony Stark: Yes, that will be all, Miss. Potts.

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Tony Stark: Ooh, this looks important.
[rips out Iron Monger's optic cables]

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Iron Man: [picks up terrorist, throws him to civilians] He's all yours.

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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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Tony Stark: Am I making you uncomfortable?
Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: Oh, no, I always forget to wear deodorant and dance with my boss in a room full of people I work with in a dress with no back.
Tony Stark: Well, you look great, you smell great. But I could fire you if that would take the edge off.
Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: I don't think you could tie your shoes without me.
Tony Stark: I'd make it a week.
Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: A week, really? What's your social security number?
Tony Stark: [he pauses]
Tony Stark: Five...
Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: [smiling] "Five?" You're missing just a couple of digits.
Tony Stark: Right, the other eight. Well, I have you for the other eight.

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

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Yinsen: [amazed at the arc reactor] 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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Obadiah Stane: How ironic, Tony! Trying to rid the world of weapons, you gave it its best one ever! And now, I'm going to kill you with it.

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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: Whatcha reading, platypus?
Jim Rhodes: Nothing.
Tony Stark: Come on sourpatch.
Jim Rhodes: I'm not sour.
Tony Stark: Don't be mad.

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Jim Rhodes: You don't respect yourself, so I hardly expect you to respect me...
Tony Stark: I said I was sorry! Hey, get two drinks...
Jim Rhodes: I don't want a drink...
[later, Stark throws a party in the plane]
Jim Rhodes: [slightly drunk] That's what I'm talking about!

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Yinsen: We met, you know, in Bern.
Tony Stark: Really? I don't remember.
Yinsen: [chuckling] Of course not. If I had been that drunk, I wouldn't have been able to give a lecture on integrated bio-electronics.

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[Stark and Potts carry out an arc reactor transplant]
Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: Don't ever get me to do that again! Find someone else!
Tony Stark: Who else? I only got you.

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[JARVIS gives Stark an arc reactor]
Tony Stark: Good boy...

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[Iron Monger is about to shoot Pepper]
Iron Monger: Your services are no longer required.

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Tony Stark: [pats someone on the back] Hey Hef.
['Hef' turns around, and it's actually Stan Lee]

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Iron Monger: I love this suit!

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Tony Stark: Why aren't you wearing those pyjamas I gave you?
Obadiah Stane: Good night, Tony...

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Tony Stark: [seeing wires running out of his chest] What the hell did you do to me?
Yinsen: What I *did* was save your life. That is an electromagnet, connected to a car battery. I removed as much shrapnel from your chest as I could, but there are still some pieces left. I've seen plenty of injuries like that. We call those casualties with them "the Walking Dead," because in a week they're dead. The magnet should prevent them from reaching your heart.

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Raza: Long ago, the bow and arrow was the ultimate technological achievement. It was used by Genghis Khan to forge an empire that stretched across Asia, from the wintry woods of Ukraine to the Eastern shores of Korea. Now, whoever holds the weapons manufactured by Stark Industries rules the world... and soon, it will be *my* turn.

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Yinsen: Did you see that? Those are *your* weapons... in the hands of those murderers! Is this what you want? Is this what you wish the legacy of the great Tony Stark to be?
Tony Stark: I build them a missile they'll kill me. If I don't they'll kill me. Either way, I'll be dead in a week.
Yinsen: Then this should be a very busy week for you, won't it?

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Obadiah Stane: [staring at the Mark I armour] So that's how he did it...
Raza: Tony Stark has created the ultimate weapon: a masterpiece of death. A man with a dozen of these could rule all of Asia.

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[after nearly kissing her boss]
Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: Get me a martini, a dry martini, with lots of olives...

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Jarvis: Unless you wish to visit other planets, I believe it is wise to control the way you handle your suit, sir...
Tony Stark: Coat it with that gold-titanium alloy we use in Stark Industry satellites.
[Tony gazes at a scarlet Corvette]
Tony Stark: And throw in some hotrod red...
Jarvis: Certainly, sir. That will ensure your discretionary abilities...

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Raza: [a side of his face scarred] Compliments of Tony Stark...
Obadiah Stane: If you'd killed him like you were supposed to, you'd still have a face.

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[The Iron Monger lifts a car with a family in it]
Iron Man: Put it down, Obadiah!
Iron Monger: Collateral damage, Tony!
[he throws it at Iron Man]

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[playing backgammon]
Tony Stark: [rolling a 6 and 5] Sheesho besh!
Yinsen: Good roll!

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Tony Stark: I think we need to look at the arc reactor again.
Obadiah Stane: The arc reactor? That's just a publicity stunt! You built it just to shut the hippies up! There's no way you can make it smaller, let alone cheaper to operate... right?
[pause]
Obadiah Stane: Show me.
Tony Stark: Who told you about it? Rhodesy? Pepper? Okay, was it Rhodesy?
Obadiah Stane: Show me!
[Tony reveals to Obadiah the arc reactor in his chest]

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