Batman & Robin (1997)

Michael Gough: Alfred Pennyworth

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Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Barbara Wilson : Partners?

  Dick Grayson : Partners.

  Bruce Wayne : Partners.

  Alfred : We're going to need a bigger cave.

• Alfred : There is no defeat in death, Master Bruce. Victory comes in defending what we know is right while we still live.

• Bruce Wayne : Well, he's over-eager. He's impulsive. I can't trust him not to get hurt.

  Alfred : Perhaps the truth is you really don't trust anyone.

  Bruce Wayne : Oh, don't tell me you're on his side, again.

  Alfred : Despite all your talents, you are still a novice in the ways of family. Master Dick follows the same star as you but gets there by his own course. You must learn to trust him, for that is the nature of family.

  Bruce Wayne : I trust *you*, Alfred.

  Alfred : But I shan't be here forever.

• Batgirl : [in the Batcave; Alfred's image is on a computer screen]  Uncle Alfred, it's me, Barbara!

  Alfred : I expected you might find your way down here. I programmed my brain al-algorithms into the Batcomputer to create a virtual simu-simulation.

  Batgirl : I want to help Batman and Robin.

  Alfred : I anticipated you would, and took the liberty to create something in your size.

  Batgirl : Suit me up, Uncle Alfred!

• Bruce Wayne : Alfred, am I pig headed? Is it always my way or the highway?

  Alfred : Yes, actually. Death and chance, stole your parents. But rather than become a victim, you have done everything in your power to control the fates. For what is Batman? If not an effort to master the chaos that sweeps our world. An attempt to control death, itself.

  Bruce Wayne : [pause]  But I can't, can I?

  Alfred : None of us can.

• Alfred Pennyworth : Barbara is the daughter of my dear sister Margaret.

  Barbara Wilson : Both my parents were killed in a car accident five years ago. Uncle Alfred's been supporting me ever since.

  Bruce Wayne : You have?

  Dick Grayson : So, secrets, Al?

  Alfred Pennyworth : Secrets are a virtual prerequisite in this house. Don't you think so?

  Barbara Wilson : I'm on break from...

  Bruce Wayne : Oxbridge Academy. Alfred's alma mater.

  Barbara Wilson : Uh, the new computer sciences division. How did you know?

  Bruce Wayne : It says so on the patch on your sweater.

• Alfred Pennyworth : [watching the Batmobile prepare to depart]  Do try and bring this one back in one piece, sir.

• [Alfred misses the doorbell] 

  Alfred : I must have dozed off. My sincerest apologies.

  Bruce Wayne : Oh, there's no apology necessary, Alfred. It's the first time it's happened in 30 years.