Michael Caine

Highest Rated: 100% An Accidental Studio (2019)

Lowest Rated: 0% Jaws: The Revenge (1987)

Birthday: Mar 14, 1933

Birthplace: Rotherhithe, London, England

Icon of British cool in the 1960s, leading action star in the late '70s, and knighted into official respectability in 1993, Michael Caine has enjoyed a long, varied, and enviably prolific career. Although he played a part in some notable cinematic failures, particularly during the 1980s, Caine remains one of the most established performers in the business, serving as a role model for actors and filmmakers young and old. The son of a fish-porter father and a charwoman mother, Caine's beginnings were less than glamorous. Born Maurice Micklewhite in 1943, in the squalid South London neighborhood of Bermondsey, Caine got his first taste of the world beyond when he was evacuated to the countryside during World War II. A misfit in school, the military (he served during the Korean War), and the job pool, Caine found acceptance after answering a want ad for an assistant stage manager at the Horsham Repertory Company. Already star struck thanks to incessant filmgoing, Caine naturally took to acting, even though the life of a British regional actor was one step away from abject poverty. Changing his last name from Micklewhite to Caine in tribute to one of his favorite movies, The Caine Mutiny (1954), the actor toiled in obscurity in unbilled film bits and TV walk-ons from 1956 through 1962, occasionally obtaining leads on a TV series based on the Edgar Wallace mysteries. Caine's big break occurred in 1963, when he was cast in a leading role in the epic, star-studded historical adventure film Zulu. Suddenly finding himself bearing a modicum of importance in the British film industry, the actor next played Harry Palmer, the bespectacled, iconoclastic secret agent protagonist of The Ipcress File (1965); he would go on to reprise the role in two more films, Funeral in Berlin (1966) and The Billion Dollar Brain (1967). After 12 years of obscure and unappreciated work, Caine was glibly hailed as an "overnight star," and with the success of The Ipcress Files, advanced to a new role as a major industry player. He went on to gain international fame in his next film, Alfie (1966), in which he played the title character, a gleefully cheeky, womanizing cockney lad. For his portrayal of Alfie, Caine was rewarded with a Golden Globe award and an Oscar nomination. One of the most popular action stars of the late '60s and early '70s, Caine had leading roles in films such as the classic 1969 action comedy The Italian Job (considered by many to be the celluloid manifestation of all that was hip in Britain at the time); Joseph L. Manckiewic's Sleuth (1972), in which he starred opposite Laurence Olivier and won his second Oscar nomination; and The Man Who Would Be King (1976), which cast him alongside Sean Connery. During the 1980s, Caine gained additional acclaim with an Oscar nomination for Educating Rita (1983) and a 1986 Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Hannah and Her Sisters. He had a dastardly turn as an underworld kingpin in Neil Jordan's small but fervently praised Mona Lisa, and two years later once again proved his comic talents with the hit comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, in which he and Steve Martin starred as scheming con artists. Although Caine was no less prolific during the 1990s, his career began to falter with a series of lackluster films. Among the disappointments were Steven Seagal's environmental action flick On Deadly Ground (1994) and Blood and Wine, a 1996 thriller in which he starred with Jack Nicholson and Judy Davis. In the late '90s, Caine began to rebound, appearing in the acclaimed independent film Little Voice (1998), for which he won a Golden Globe for his portrayal of a seedy talent agent. In addition, Caine -- or Sir Michael, as he was called after receiving his knighthood in 2000 -- got a new audience through his television work, starring in the 1997 miniseries Mandela and de Klerk. The actor, who was ranked 55 in Empire Magazine's 1997 Top 100 Actors of All Time list, also kept busy as the co-owner of a successful London

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
No Score Yet	Medieval	Actor	—	2022
52%	Best Sellers	Actor	—	2021
29%	Come Away	Charlie	—	2020
69%	Tenet	Crosby	—	2020
48%	Four Kids and It	Psammead	—	2020
No Score Yet	Now You See Me 3	Arthur Tressler	—	2020
33%	King of Thieves	Actor	—	2019
100%	An Accidental Studio	Actor	—	2019
27%	Sherlock Gnomes	Actor	—	2018
16%	Dear Dictator	General Anton Vincent	—	2018
47%	Going in Style	Joe	$45.1M	2017
34%	Now You See Me 2	Arthur Tressler	$65.1M	2016
71%	Youth	Fred Ballinger	$1.9M	2015
18%	The Last Witch Hunter	Dolan 36th36 Dolan	—	2015
75%	Kingsman: The Secret Service	Arthur	$119.5M	2015
72%	Interstellar	Profesor BrandProf. Brand	$158.8M	2014
55%	Stonehearst Asylum	Actor	—	2014
83%	The Double	Executive Producer	$0.6M	2014
31%	Last Love	Matt Morgan	—	2013
50%	Now You See Me	Arthur Tressler	$117.7M	2013
87%	The Dark Knight Rises	Alfred Pennyworth	$448.2M	2012
45%	Journey 2: The Mysterious Island	Alexander	$103.9M	2012
40%	Cars 2	Finn McMissile	$191.5M	2011
87%	Inception	Miles	$292.6M	2010
63%	Harry Brown	Harry Brown	$1.9M	2010
65%	Is Anybody There?	Clarence	$2M	2009
94%	The Dark Knight	Alfred	$533.4M	2008
55%	Flawless	Mr. Hobbs	$1.2M	2008
36%	Sleuth	Andrew Wyke	$0.3M	2007
92%	Children of Men	Jasper	$35.1M	2006
No Score Yet	OLHAR ESTRANGEIRO	Actor	—	2006
76%	The Prestige	Cutter	$53.1M	2006
59%	The Weather Man	Robert Spritzel	$12.5M	2005
24%	Bewitched	Nigel Bigelow	$62.3M	2005
84%	Batman Begins	Alfred	$204.2M	2005
29%	Around the Bend	Henry Lair	$0.2M	2004
No Score Yet	Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films--British Cinema's Legendary Studio	Actor	—	2004
23%	The Statement	Pierre Broussard	$0.6M	2003
60%	Secondhand Lions	Garth	$41.5M	2003
No Score Yet	Los Actores	Anthony O'Malley	—	2003
87%	The Quiet American	Thomas Fowler	—	2003
No Score Yet	Quicksand	Jake Mellows	—	2003
79%	Last Orders	Jack Arthur Dodds	$2.2M	2002
No Score Yet	Fighting for Freedom: Revolution & Civil War	Narrator	—	2002
46%	Shiner	Billy `Shiner' Simpson	—	2001
41%	Miss Congeniality	Victor Melling	—	2000
75%	Quills	Dr. Royer-Collard	$4.3M	2000
11%	Get Carter	Cliff Brumby	$14.6M	2000
No Score Yet	Curtain Call	Max Gale	—	2000
71%	The Cider House Rules	Dr. Wilbur Larch	—	1999
79%	Little Voice	Ray	—	1998
No Score Yet	Shadow Run	Haskell	—	1998
No Score Yet	20,000 Leagues Under the Sea	Capt. Nemo	—	1997
61%	Blood and Wine	Victor	—	1997
No Score Yet	Mandela and Deklerk	F.W. De Klerk	—	1997
No Score Yet	Midnight in Saint Petersburg	Harry Palmer	—	1996
No Score Yet	Bullet to Beijing	Harry Palmer	—	1995
No Score Yet	Midnight in St. Petersburg	Actor	—	1995
No Score Yet	World War II	Actor	—	1994
12%	On Deadly Ground	Michael Jennings	—	1994
No Score Yet	World War II: When Lions Roared	Joseph Stalin	—	1994
No Score Yet	Blue Ice	Harry Anders	—	1993
75%	The Muppet Christmas Carol	Ebenezer Scrooge	—	1992
61%	Noises Off	Lloyd	—	1992
No Score Yet	Hollywood Collection	Narrator	—	1991
No Score Yet	King Midas and the Golden Touch	Narrator	—	1991
38%	Mr. Destiny	Mike/Mr. Destiny	—	1990
No Score Yet	Bullseye!	Sidney Lipton/ octor Hicklar	—	1990
69%	A Shock to the System	Graham Marshall	—	1990
No Score Yet	Jekyll & Hyde	Dr. Henry Jekyll/Mr. Edward Hyde	—	1990
88%	Dirty Rotten Scoundrels	Lawrence Jamieson	—	1988
No Score Yet	Jack the Ripper	Frederick Abberline	—	1988
64%	Without a Clue	Sherlock Holmes	—	1988
22%	Surrender	Sean Stein	—	1987
74%	The Fourth Protocol	Executive Producer John Preston	—	1987
89%	The Whistle Blower	The Whistle Blower	—	1987
0%	Jaws: The Revenge	Hoagie Newcombe	—	1987
No Score Yet	Hero: The Official Film of the 1986 FIFA World Cup	Actor	—	1987
97%	Mona Lisa	Mortwell	—	1986
81%	Sweet Liberty	Elliott James	—	1986
91%	Hannah and Her Sisters	Elliot	—	1986
50%	Half Moon Street	Lord Bulbeck	—	1986
30%	El Pacto Holcroft	Noel Holcroft	—	1985
0%	Water	Governor Baxter Thwaites	—	1985
8%	Blame It on Rio	Matthew Hollis	—	1984
41%	The Jigsaw Man	Philip Kimberly/Sergei Kuzminsky	—	1984
80%	Educating Rita	Dr. Frank Bryant	—	1983
No Score Yet	Beyond the Limit	Charley Fortnum	—	1983
71%	Deathtrap	Sidney Bruhl	—	1982
63%	Victory	Capt. John Colby	—	1981
26%	The Hand	Ian Lansdale	—	1981
40%	The Island	Blair Maynard	—	1980
81%	Dressed to Kill	Doctor Robert Elliott	—	1980
0%	Beyond the Poseidon Adventure	Capt. Mike Turner	—	1979
No Score Yet	Ashanti	Dr. David Linderby	—	1979
54%	California Suite	Sidney Cochran - Visitors from London	—	1978
No Score Yet	Silver Bears	Doc Fletcher	—	1978
9%	The Swarm	Brad Crane	—	1978
62%	A Bridge Too Far	Lt. Col. Joe Vandeleur	—	1977
50%	Harry and Walter Go to New York	Adam Worth	—	1976
60%	The Eagle Has Landed	Colonel Steiner	—	1976
97%	The Man Who Would Be King	Peachy Carnehan	—	1975
No Score Yet	The Romantic Englishwoman,(Une anglaise romantique)	Lewis	—	1975
22%	Peeper (Fat Chance)	Leslie C. Tucker	—	1975
67%	The Wilby Conspiracy	Jim Keogh	—	1975
No Score Yet	The Marseille Contract (The Destructors)	John Deray	—	1974
50%	The Black Windmill	Maj. John Tarrant	—	1974
No Score Yet	Kidnapped	Alan Breck	—	1973
29%	X, Y & Zee	Robert Blakeley	—	1972
75%	Pulp	Mickey King	—	1972
92%	Sleuth	Milo Tindle	—	1972
No Score Yet	The Last Valley	Captain	—	1971
85%	Get Carter	Jack Carter	—	1971
57%	Too Late the Hero	Pvt. Tosh Hearne	—	1970
67%	Battle of Britain	Squadron Leader Canfield	—	1969
81%	The Italian Job	Charlie Croker	—	1969
No Score Yet	Play Dirty	Director Capt. Douglas	—	1969
40%	The Magus	Nicholas	—	1968
No Score Yet	Deadfall	Henry Stuart Clarke	—	1968
22%	Hurry Sundown	Henry Warren	—	1967
50%	Billion Dollar Brain	Harry Palmer	—	1967
96%	Alfie	Alfie	—	1966
88%	The Wrong Box	Michael Finsbury	—	1966
No Score Yet	Alfie Darling (Oh Alfie)	Actor	—	1966
67%	Funeral in Berlin	Harry Palmer	—	1966
100%	Gambit	Harold "Harry" Dean	—	1965
97%	The Ipcress File	Harry Palmer	—	1965
96%	Zulu	Lt. Gonville Bromhead	—	1964
No Score Yet	The Wrong Arm of the Law	Bit	—	1963
No Score Yet	The Bulldog Breed	Sailor (uncredited)	—	1960
No Score Yet	Carve Her Name with Pride	Thirsty Prisoner on Train	—	1958
No Score Yet	The Two-Headed Spy	Soldier	—	1958
No Score Yet	Room 43	Actor	—	1958
No Score Yet	How to Murder a Rich Uncle	Gilrony	—	1957
No Score Yet	Panic in the Parlor	Bit	—	1956
No Score Yet	A Hill in Korea (Hell in Korea)	Private Lockyer	—	1956

TV

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	YEAR
No Score Yet	The Graham Norton Show 2007	Guest	2017
No Score Yet	Today 2017-2019	Guest Actor	2017
No Score Yet	The View 1997-2020	Guest	2017 2013 2012
No Score Yet	60 Minutes 1992	Appearing	2016 2015
No Score Yet	The Late Show With Stephen Colbert 2015	Guest	2015
No Score Yet	Fanboy & Chum Chum 2009-2012	Screenwriter	2012 2011 2010 2009
No Score Yet	Late Night With Jimmy Fallon 2009-2014	Guest	2010
No Score Yet	The Tonight Show With Jay Leno 1992-2014	Guest	2003 2002

Quotes from Michael Caine's Characters

Prof. Brand:

Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Fred Ballinger:

She is not at all stupid, Miss Universe.

Harry Brown:

You have failed to maintain your weapon, son!

Fred Ballinger:

You were right. Music is all I really understand.

Fred Ballinger:

Intellectuals have no taste.

Cooper:	You sent people out there looking for a new home?
Prof. Brand:	The Lazarus missions.
Cooper:	That sounds cheerful.
Prof. Brand:	Lazarus care back from the dead.
Cooper:	Sure, but he had to die in the first place.

Prof. Brand:	We need the bravest humans to find us a new home.
Cooper:	But the nearest star is over a thousand years away.
Doyle:	Hence the bravery.

Cooper:	I have kids, professor.
Prof. Brand:	Get out there, and save them.

Alfred:

Some men just want to watch the world burn.

Mike:

Learn to enjoy what you've got.

Mike:

Some people think things are the way they are for a reason.

Hoagie:

Oh, shit!

Matthew Morgan:

I think the day we figure out everything about our lives is the day we die.

Thomas Fowler:

They say there is a ghost in every house and if you can make peace with him, he will stay quiet,

Thomas Fowler:

There's a war on. People are dying every day.

Thomas Fowler:

A woman's voice can drug you.

Alfred:

Some men just want to watch the world burn.

Alfred:	Shall you be taking the Batpod sir?
Batman/Bruce Wayne:	In the middle of the day Alfred?
Alfred:	The Lamborghini then? Much more subtle.

Alfie:

My understanding of women goes only so far as the pleasures.

"Sherlock Holmes"/Reginald Kincaid:

Ah well, Sherlock Holmes belongs to the whole world!

Graham Marshall:

I will try and put this as politely as possible, Henry. What the fuck are you doing in my office?

Arthur Tressler:	Whatever you stand to make from this, I'll double it.
Thaddeus Bradley:	I stand to make $5 million.
Arthur Tressler:	Am I flinching?

Robert:	(to Zee) Wouldn't you like to chew on a bone or something?
Robert:	Wouldn't you like to chew on a bone or something?

Alexander:

How do you like grandma now?

Hank:	How do you think your mother's gonna feel when we're off the grid for two weeks?
Alexander:	By the time you get back, she's probably gonna be remarried.

Nigel Powers:	Oh my god! You're a tripod.
Mini-Me:	[nods]

Batman/Bruce Wayne:	People are dying, Alfred. What would you have me do?
Alfred:	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.
Batman/Bruce Wayne:	Well today I found out what Batman can't do. He can't endure this. Today you get to say "I told you so."
Alfred:	Today, I don't want to.
Alfred:	But I did bloody tell you.

Michael:	What do you know about it?
Hoagie:	Well she got the idea in her head that the shark that killed Martin and Sean is now following the family.
Jake:	Hey, he's not talking about OUR shark is he?
Jake:	Hey, he's not talking about our shark is he?
Michael:	(after a long pause) What do you do when you're not flying people?
Michael:	What do you do when you're not flying people?
Hoagie:	I deliver laundry. (smiles)
Hoagie:	I deliver laundry.

Bruce Wayne/Batman:	Bane was a member of the League of Shadows?
Alfred:	And then he was excommunicated. And any man, who is too extreme for Ra's Al Ghul, is not to be trifled with.
Bruce Wayne/Batman:	I didn't realize I was known for trifling with criminals.
Alfred:	That was then. And you can strap up your leg and put your mask back on. But that doesn't make you what you were.

Alfred:	Is it really painful?
Bruce Wayne/Batman:	Well, You're welcome to try it, Alfred.
Alfred:	Happy watching, thank you, sir.
Bruce Wayne/Batman:	Not bad. Not bad at all.

Alfred:	Is see from the television coverage that you've got your taste for wanton destruction back.
Bruce Wayne/Batman:	I retrieved this.
Alfred:	Aren't the police supposed to be investigating them?
Bruce Wayne/Batman:	They don't have the tools to analyze it.
Alfred:	They would if you gave them to them.
Bruce Wayne/Batman:	One man's tool is another man's weapon.
Alfred:	In your mind, perhaps. But there aren't many things you can't turn into a weapon.
Bruce Wayne/Batman:	Alfred, enough! The police weren't getting it done.
Alfred:	Perhaps they might have if you hadn't made a sideshow of yourself.

Batman/Bruce Wayne:	That wasn't... exactly what I had in mind when, uh, I said I wanted to inspire people.
Batman/Bruce Wayne:	That wasn't exactly what I had in mind when, uh, I said I wanted to inspire people.
Alfred:	I know.

Batman/Bruce Wayne:	What have I done, Alfred? Everything my family my father, built
Batman/Bruce Wayne:	What have I done, Alfred? Everything my family, my father, built.
Alfred Pennyworth:	The Wayne legacy is more than bricks and mortar, sir.
Batman/Bruce Wayne:	I wanted to save Gotham. I failed.
Alfred Pennyworth:	Why do we fall, sir? So that we can learn to pick ourselves up.
Batman/Bruce Wayne:	You still haven't given up on me?
Alfred Pennyworth:	Never.

Alfred Pennyworth:	Master Wayne, you've been gone a long time.
Batman/Bruce Wayne:	Yes, I have.
Alfred Pennyworth:	You look very fashionable........ Apart from the mud.
Alfred Pennyworth:	You look very fashionable, apart from the mud.

Rachel Dawes:	What will you do?
Batman/Bruce Wayne:	Rebuild it. Just the way it was, brick for brick.
Alfred Pennyworth:	Just the way it was, sir?
Batman/Bruce Wayne:	Yeah, why?
Alfred Pennyworth:	I thought this might be a good opportunity for improving the foundations.
Batman/Bruce Wayne:	In the southeast corner?
Alfred Pennyworth:	Precisely, sir.

Lawrence Jamieson:

Freddy, as a younger man, I was a sculptor, a painter, and a musician. There was just one problem: I wasn't very good. As a matter of fact, I was dreadful. I finally came to the frustrating conclusion that I had taste and style, but not talent. I knew my limitations. We all have our limitations, Freddy. Fortunately, I discovered that taste and style were commodities that people desired. Freddy, what I am saying is: know your limitations. You are a moron.

Lawrence Jamieson:

Ruprecht, do you want the genital cuff?

Lawrence Jamieson:

Do you ever have a single thought that originates from above the waist?

Jack Carter:

Wer'e gonna take this to the next level...

Bruce Wayne/Batman:	So now you're trying to set me up with a jewel thief?
Alfred:	At this point, I'd set you up with a chimpanzee if it'd brought you back to the world!

Alfred:

[At Bruce's grave] I'm so sorry. I failed you. You trusted me, and I failed you.

Alfred:

[To Bruce] 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.

Batman/Bruce Wayne:	Targeting me won't get their money back. I knew the mob wouldn't go down without a fight, but this is different. They crossed the line.
Alfred:	You crossed the line first, sir. You squeezed them, you hammered them to the point of desperation. And in their desperation, they turned to a man they didn't fully understand.
Batman/Bruce Wayne:	Criminals aren't complicated, Alfred. Just have to figure out what he's after.
Alfred:	With respect Master Wayne, perhaps this is a man that you don't fully understand, either. A long time ago, I was in Burma. My friends and I were working for the local government. They were trying to buy the loyalty of tribal leaders by bribing them with precious stones. But their caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a bandit. So, we went looking for the stones. But in six months, we never met anybody who traded with him. One day, I saw a child playing with a ruby the size of a tangerine. The bandit had been throwing them away.
Batman/Bruce Wayne:	So why steal them?
Alfred:	Well, because he thought it was good sport. Because some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

Alfred:

Because some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

Alfred:

Leaving is the only thing I have to make you understand.

Cutter:	the real transported man is one of the most sought after illusion's in this business i have the right to sell it on if i reveal the method hear the trick is worthless
Cutter:	The Real Transported Man is the most sought-after illusion in the business and I have te right to sell it on.

Judge:	how do you think Mr Borden was able to move the tank under the trap door with out anyone noticing
Judge:	How do you think Mr.Borden was able to move the tank under the trap door without anyone noticing?
Cutter:	he is the magician ask him
Cutter:	Ask him, he's the magician.

Dr. Wilbur Larch:

Dr. Wilbur Larch: Good night, you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

Pierre Brossard:	Saint Christopher, they saw me. They knew. Can they point me out? Can anyone say,"That's Brossard. He sent us to our graves."
Pierre Brossard:	Saint Christopher, they saw me. They knew. Can they point me out? Can anyone say,'That's Brossard. He sent us to our graves.'

Finn McMissile:

I'm looking for a car.

Batman/Bruce Wayne:	More copycats last night, Alfred. with guns
Batman/Bruce Wayne:	More copycats last night, Alfred, with guns.
Alfred:	Why don't you hire them and take a weekend off
Alfred:	Why don't you hire them and take the weekend off?

Alfred:	Did you maul by a tiger?
Alfred:	Did you get mauled by a tiger?
Batman/Bruce Wayne:	It was a dog
Batman/Bruce Wayne:	It was a dog.
Alfred:	Huh?
Batman/Bruce Wayne:	It was a big dog
Batman/Bruce Wayne:	It was a big dog.

Jasper:	Yeah, there you go! Julian and Theo met among a million protesters in a rally by chance. But they were there because of what they believed in in the first place, their faith. They wanted to change the world. And their faith kept them together. But by chance, Dylan was born.
Kee:	This is him?
Jasper:	Yeah, that's him. He'd have been about your age. Magical child. Beautiful. Their faith put in praxis.
Miriam:	Praxis? What happened?
Jasper:	Chance. He was their sweet little dream. He had little hands, little legs, little feet. Little lungs. And in 2008, along came the flu pandemic. And then, by chance, he was gone. You see, Theo's faith lost out to chance. So, why bother if life's going to make its own choices?

Lewis:

The realm of possibility, What a terrible country. What if such and such were the case? What if the person you love is a liar?

Lewis:

It is very, very boring to seize on some commonplace idea, which no reasonable person would dispute, and then ram it down people's throats as if it were a breakthrough in the history of human thought. Furthermore, washing someone's dirty underpants is what you are best suited for.

Herman:	It's a psychological story about 'the new woman," you understand me?
Lewis:	Yes, I think its a very boring idea. It's pretentious and derivative, but mostly its boring Why don't you turn it into a thriller?

Michael Finsbury:

This is Julia Finsbury. Soon to be Julia Finsbury.

Alfred Pennyworth:	Wayne Manor is your house... Your father is dead...
Batman/Bruce Wayne:	Alfred, this place is a mauseleum. If I had it my way, I would bring this whole place down brick for brick.
Alfred Pennyworth:	This home has sheltered six generations of your family.
Batman/Bruce Wayne:	Why do you give a damn, Alfred? It's not your family.
Alfred Pennyworth:	I give a damn, because a good man once made me responsible for what was most precious to him in the whole world. Miss Dawes has offered to drive you to the hearing. She probably tries to talk you out of going.
Batman/Bruce Wayne:	Should I bury my past down there with my parents, Alfred?
Alfred Pennyworth:	I wouldn't presume what to tell you what to do with your past, sir. Just know that there are those of us who care about what you do with your future.

Cutter:	Didn't I tell you about the sailor who said what drowning felt like?
Robert Angier:	He said it was like going home.
Cutter:	I was wrong. He said it was agony.

Charlie Croker:

Hang on a minute lads, I've got a great idea! Err... Err...

Finn McMissile:	â??Friendships can be dangerous in our line of work, Mater.â?? -
Finn McMissile:	Friendships can be dangerous in our line of work, Mater.
Finn McMissile:	Finn McMissile: I haven't properly introduced myself,Finn McMissile, British intelligence. Mater: Tow Mater, average intelligence.
Finn McMissile:	Finn: Changed of plan, you're meeting the American. Holley: What? Me? Finn: Those thugs Down there run the oil platform, If they see me the whole mission will be compromise Holley: No, No I'm technical you see. I'm in diagnostic. I'm not a field agent. Finn: you're now

Finn McMissile:	Acer: "Finn McMissile? But you're dead!" Finn: "Then this shouldn't hurt at all!"
Finn McMissile:	No one realized they're being fooled because they're too busy laughing at the fool, Brilliant!
Finn McMissile:	"No one realized they're being fooled because they're too busy laughing at the fool, Brilliant!"
Finn McMissile:	Finn: Changed of plan, you're meeting the American. Holley: What? Me? Finn: Those thugs Down there run the oil platform, If they see me the whole mission will be compromise Holley: No, No I'm technical you see. I'm in diagnostic. I'm not a field agent. Finn: you're now
Finn McMissile:	Holley Shiftwell: Hello Finn Mcmissile: Hello Holley Shiftwell: " A Volkswagen Karmann Ghia has no radiator..." Finn Mcmissile: "That's because it's air-cooled." Holley Shiftwell: Good, Good, I'm agent shiftwell, Holley Shiftwell.
Finn McMissile:	â??Friendships can be dangerous in our line of work, Mater.â?? -

Dr. Wilbur Larch:

I had hoped to become a hero. But in St. Cloud's, there was no such position. In the lonely, sordid world of lost children, there were no heroes to be found. And so I became the caretaker of many, father of none. Well, in a way, there was one. His name was Homer Wells.

Dr. Wilbur Larch:	"Sorry"? I'm not sorry. Not for anything I've done. I'm not even sorry that I love you.
Dr. Wilbur Larch:	'Sorry'? I'm not sorry. Not for anything I've done. I'm not even sorry that I love you.

Dr. Wilbur Larch:

I know it's against the law. I ask you, what has the law ever done for this place?

Alfred:	You two should exchange notes over coffee
Bruce Wayne/Batman:	So now you're trying to set me up with a jewel thief?
Alfred:	At this point, I'd set you up with a chimpanzee if it'd brought you back to the world!

Alfred:

Some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

Alfred Pennyworth:	Why do we fall sir? So we might learn to pick ourselves up.
Batman/Bruce Wayne:	You still haven't given up on me?
Alfred Pennyworth:	Never.

Cutter:	You settled on a name yet?
Robert Angier:	Yes I have. The Great Danton.
Cutter:	Bit old-fashioned isn't it?
Robert Angier:	No. It's sophisticated.

Cutter:

Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts. The first part is called "The Pledge". The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird or a man. He shows you this object. Perhaps he asks you to inspect it to see if it is indeed real, unaltered, normal. But of course... it probably isn't. The second act is called "The Turn". The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you're looking for the secret... but you won't find it, because of course you're not really looking. You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled. But you wouldn't clap yet. Because making something disappear isn't enough; you have to bring it back. That's why every magic trick has a third act, the hardest part, the part we call "The Prestige"

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Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts. The first part is called 'The Pledge'. The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird or a man. He shows you this object. Perhaps he asks you to inspect it to see if it is indeed real, unaltered, normal. But of course... it probably isn't. The second act is called "The Turn". The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you're looking for the secret... but you won't find it, because of course you're not really looking. You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled. But you wouldn't clap yet. Because making something disappear isn't enough; you have to bring it back. That's why every magic trick has a third act, the hardest part, the part we call 'The Prestige'.

Miles:	Come back to reality, Dom.
Miles:	Come back to reality, Cobb.

Alfred Pennyworth:	Are you coming back to Gotham for long, sir?
Batman/Bruce Wayne:	As long as it takes. I'm gonna show the people of Gotham their city doesn't belong to the criminals and the corrupt.
Alfred Pennyworth:	In the depression, your father nearly bankrupted Wayne Enterprises combating poverty. He believed that his example could inspire the wealthy of Gotham to save their city.
Batman/Bruce Wayne:	Did it?
Lucius Fox:	In a way. Their murders shocked the wealthy and the powerful into action.
Batman/Bruce Wayne:	People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy and I can't do that as Bruce Wayne, as a man I'm 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.
Alfred Pennyworth:	What symbol?
Batman/Bruce Wayne:	Something elemental, something terrifying.
Alfred Pennyworth:	I assume that as you're taking on the underworld, this symbol is a persona to protect those you care about from reprisals.
Batman/Bruce Wayne:	You thinking about Rachel?
Alfred Pennyworth:	Actually, sir, I was thinking of myself.

Alfred Pennyworth:	Why bats, Master Wayne?
Batman/Bruce Wayne:	Bats frighten me. It's time my enemies shared my dread.

Batman/Bruce Wayne:	The bandit, in the forest in Burma, did you catch him?
Alfred:	Yes
Batman/Bruce Wayne:	How?
Alfred:	We burned the forest down.

Batman/Bruce Wayne:	You look tired, Alfred. You'll be all right without me?
Alfred:	You can tell me the Russian for, "Apply your own bloody suntan lotion."
Alfred:	You can tell me the Russian for, 'Apply your own bloody suntan lotion.'

Alfred:	Know your limits, Master Wayne.
Batman/Bruce Wayne:	Batman has no limits.
Alfred:	Well, you do, sir.
Batman/Bruce Wayne:	Well, can't afford to know 'em.
Alfred:	And what happens on the day that you find out?
Batman/Bruce Wayne:	Well, we all know how much you love to say "I told you so."
Alfred:	On that day, Master Wayne, even I won't want to. Probably.

Alfred:	I suppose they'll lock me up as well. As your accomplice...
Batman/Bruce Wayne:	Accomplice? I'm going to tell them the whole thing was your idea.

Batman/Bruce Wayne:	Targeting me won't get their money back. I knew the mob wouldn't go down without a fight, but this is different. They crossed the line.
Alfred:	You crossed the line first, sir. You squeezed them, you hammered them to the point of desperation. And in their desperation, they turned to a man they didn't fully understand.
Batman/Bruce Wayne:	Criminals aren't complicated, Alfred. Just have to figure out what he's after.
Alfred:	With respect Master Wayne, perhaps this is a man that you don't fully understand, either. A long time ago, I was in Burma. My friends and I were working for the local government. They were trying to buy the loyalty of tribal leaders by bribing them with precious stones. But their caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a bandit. So, we went looking for the stones. But in six months, we never met anybody who traded with him. One day, I saw a child playing with a ruby the size of a tangerine. The bandit had been throwing them away.
Batman/Bruce Wayne:	So why steal them?
Alfred:	Well, because he thought it was good sport. Because some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

Alfred:	If you're seriously considering going back out there, you should hear the rumors surrounding Bane
Bruce Wayne/Batman:	I'm all ears
Alfred:	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/Batman:	Bane.
Alfred:	Right. Born and raised in hell on earth.
Bruce Wayne/Batman:	Born in prison?
Alfred:	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.
Fox:	Bane was a member of The League of Shadows?
Alfred:	And then he was excommunicated. And any man who is too extreme for Ra's Al Ghul is not to be trifled with.

Alfred:	I'll get this to Mr. Fox, but no more. I've sewn you up, I've set your bones, but I won't bury you. I've buried enough members of the Wayne family.
Bruce Wayne/Batman:	You'll leave me?
Alfred:	You see only one end to your journey. Leaving is all I have to make you understand, you're not Batman anymore. You have to find another way. You used to talk about finishing a life beyond that awful cape.
Bruce Wayne/Batman:	Rachel died believing that we would be together; that was my life beyond the cape. I can't just move on. She didn't, she couldn't.
Alfred:	What if she had? What if, before she died, she wrote a letter saying she chose Harvey Dent over you? And what if, to spare your pain, I burnt that letter?
Bruce Wayne/Batman:	How dare you use Rachel to try to stop me?
Alfred:	I am using the truth, Master Wayne. Maybe it's time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day. I'm sorry
Bruce Wayne/Batman:	You're sorry? You expect to destroy my world and then think we're going to shake hands?
Alfred:	No... no, I know what this means.
Bruce Wayne/Batman:	What does it mean?
Alfred:	It means your hatred... and it also means losing someone that I have cared for since I first heard his cries echo through this house. But it might also mean saving your life. And that is more important.
Bruce Wayne/Batman:	Good bye, Alfred.

Bruce Wayne/Batman:	If this man is everything that you say he is, then this city needs me.
Alfred:	This city needs Bruce Wayne, your resources, your knowledge. It doesn't need your body, or your life. That time has passed.
Bruce Wayne/Batman:	You're afraid that if I go back out there I'll fail.
Alfred:	No. I'm afraid that you want to.

Alfred:	You two should exchange notes over coffee.
Bruce Wayne/Batman:	So now you're trying to set me up with a jewel thief?
Alfred:	At this point, I'd set you up with a chimpanzee if it'd brought you back to the world!
Bruce Wayne/Batman:	There's nothing out there for me.
Alfred:	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/Batman:	Alfred... I did find someone.
Alfred:	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.

Alfred:

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.

Kermit the Frog:	"If you please Mr. Scrooge, it's gotten colder, and the bookkeeping staff would like an extra shovel full of coal for the fire?"
Kermit the Frog:	If you please Mr. Scrooge, it's gotten colder, and the bookkeeping staff would like an extra shovel full of coal for the fire?
Additional Muppet Performer:	"We can't do the bookkeeping, all our pens have turned to inkcicles!"
Additional Muppet Performer:	We can't do the bookkeeping, all our pens have turned to inkcicles!
Additional Muppet Performer:	"Our assets are frozen!"
Additional Muppet Performer:	Our assets are frozen!
Ebenezer Scrooge:	"How would the bookkeeping staff like to be suddenly... UNEMPLOYED?"
Ebenezer Scrooge:	How would the bookkeeping staff like to be suddenly... UNEMPLOYED?
Additional Muppet Performer:	[singing] "HEAT WAVE. This is my island in the sun.. "
Additional Muppet Performer:	[singing] HEAT WAVE. This is my island in the sun.

Alfred:

I never wanted you to come back to Gotham. I knew that there was nothing for you in here, other than despair and suffering.

Jasper:	Pull my finger
Jasper:	Pull my finger.

Alfred:	[To Bruce] I never wanted you to come back to Gotham, because I know there's nothing for you here except for pain and tragedy. And I wanted more for you than that. I still do.
Alfred:	[to Bruce] I never wanted you to come back to Gotham, because I know there's nothing for you here except for pain and tragedy. And I wanted more for you than that. I still do.

Alfred:

Batman is gone! The city needs YOU now! Your resources, your knowledge! It doesn't need your body... or your life.

Bruce Wayne/Batman:	You expect to destroy my world, and then we're just going to shake hands?
Alfred:	No. I know what this means. It means your hatred. It means losing someone whom I have cared for since his cries first echoed through this house.

Cutter:

(ending narration) Every magic trick consists of 3 parts, or "acts." The first part is called "the Pledge." The magician shows you something ordinary. The second act is called "the Turn." The magician takes the ordinary something, and makes it into something extraordinary. But, you wouldn't clap yet, because making something disappear isn't enough... you have to bring it BACK. Now, you're looking for the secret. But you won't find it, because, of course, you're not really looking. You don't really want to work it out. You want to be... FOOLED.

Cutter:

[ending narration] Every magic trick consists of 3 parts, or 'acts.' The first part is called 'the Pledge.' The magician shows you something ordinary. The second act is called "the Turn." The magician takes the ordinary something, and makes it into something extraordinary. But, you wouldn't clap yet, because making something disappear isn't enough... you have to bring it BACK. Now, you're looking for the secret. But you won't find it, because, of course, you're not really looking. You don't really want to work it out. You want to be... FOOLED.

John Colby:	What's the verdict on Williams?
Maj. Karl Von Steiner:	A regrettable mistake.
John Colby:	The whole bloody war's a regrettable mistake.
Maj. Karl Von Steiner:	I agree.

Victor Melling:

Oh my God! I haven't seen a walk like that since Jurassic Park!

Miles:	Mr. Cobb has a job offer he'd like to discuss with you.
Ariadne:	What? Like work placement?
Cobb:	Not exactly.

Alexander:

They better get here quick! We're running out of real estate!

Alexander:	That wasn't so bad.
Sean Anderson:	It wasn't very good!

Hank Parsons:	Are you familiar with chicken?!
Alexander:	These aren't chickens!

Hank Parsons:	You, get down. NOW
Alexander:	Why would I want to get down?
Hank Parsons:	Well, because Medicare doesn't cover old ladies falling off giant bees. Get down.

Hank Parsons:	I think it's best we get out of here. After that mating call, she might have some ideas of making you her husband...
Alexander:	Oh, witty. Good for you Henry.
Hank Parsons:	[LAUGHS] The name's Hank.It's never Henry. Just Hank
Hank Parsons:	[LAUGHS] The name's Hank.It's never Henry. Just Hank.

Batman/Bruce Wayne:	Alfred, I don't care about my name!
Alfred Pennyworth:	It's not only your name, sir! It's your father's name! And it's all that's left of him! Please... don't destroy it.

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