#identity

"Remember who you are."

"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

"Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, and ideas are bulletproof."

"I am Iron Man."

"I can't fail. This is all I am."

"Maybe it's because I'm Irish."

"The question is: who are you?"

"Look harder."

"But until you start believing in yourself, you ain’t gonna have a life."

"Fighters fight."

"I’m just another bum from the neighborhood."

"What will your verse be?"

"I’m going to act."

"It is not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me."

"As a man, I am flesh and blood. I can be ignored. I can be destroyed. But as a symbol… I can be incorruptible."

"I’m more than a man. I’m an idea."

"It’s not who you are underneath, it’s what you do that defines you."

"My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius."

"Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate."

"This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished."

"I shall die here. Every inch of me shall perish. Every inch but one."

"Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask."

"What business is it of yours?"

"It was the ship of dreams to everybody else. To me, it was a slave ship, taking me back to America in chains."

"My life was meaningless until I discovered jazz."

"At some point, you gotta decide for yourself who you gonna be. Can't let nobody make that decision for you."

"I am not an elephant! I am not an animal! I am a human being! I am a man!"

"You are who you choose to be."

"What makes you different is what makes you Spider-Man."

"You can't blend in when you were born to stand out."

"Look inside yourself, Simba. You are more than what you have become."

"If you make a scene, my mom won't let me keep him."

"It's about 50 or 60 feet high and it only eats metal."

"Hey, big metal guy, I got food here for you!"

"So I guess you're not gonna hurt me, huh?"

"Hmm, maybe it's that bump from your head."

"Wow, my own giant robot, I am now the luckiest kid in America!"

"This is the greatest discovery since, I don't know, television or something."

"People will always wig out and start shooting when they see something big like you."

"That's the kind of stuff that makes them shoot at you."

"So, we can't call Ripley's Believe It or Not!"

"Beneath this mask, there is more than flesh."

"Beneath this mask, there is an idea, Mr Creedy."

"In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate."

"However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition!"

"Allow me first to apologize for this interruption."

"I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of everyday routine, the security of the familiar, the tranquillity of repetition."

"I enjoy them as much as any bloke."

"There are, of course, those who do not want us to speak."

"I suspect even now, orders are being shouted into telephones, and men with guns will soon be on their way."

"Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power."

"Alright, people, let's do this one last time."

"And for the last 22 years, I thought I was the one and only Spider-Man."

"You see, I saved the city, fell in love, I got married– saved the city some more, maybe too much."

"My marriage got testy, made some dicey money choices, don't invest in a spider-themed restaurant."

"I broke my back, a drone flew into my face."

"No matter how many times I get hit, I always get back up."

"And I got a lot of time to reflect and work on myself."

"Did you know that seahorses, that they mate for life?"

"A seahorse seeing another seahorse– and then making it work?"

"She wanted kids and– and it scared me."

"Sarabi and I didn't see you at the presentation of Simba."

"That "hairball" is my son, and your future king."

"What am I going to do with him?"

"One day, Simba, the sun will set on my time here, and will rise with you as the new king."

"As king, you need to understand that balance and respect all the creatures, from the crawling ant to the leaping antelope."

"When we die, our bodies become the grass, and the antelope eat the grass."

"And so, we are all connected in the great Circle of Life."

"Let an old pro show you how it's done."

"If you ever come near my son again--"

"I've got to teach my son a lesson."

"We have a plan, and we're going to stick to it."

"Come on, you're going to go see your family."

"I never got to say goodbye to my father."

"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."

"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."

"I was out of town for a couple months, in case you didn't hear."

"It is not our abilities that show us what we truly are."

"I am well aware of our bylaws, Severus, having written quite a few of them myself."

"However, as head of Gryffindor House, it is for Professor McGonagall to determine the appropriate action."

"I want it understood, Cornelius, that Hagrid has my full confidence."

"And what exactly is it that you want with me?"

"If the governors desire my removal, I will, of course, step aside."

"When the governors learned that Arthur Weasley's daughter was taken into the Chamber, they saw fit to summon me back."

"Curiously, Lucius, several of them were under the impression that you would curse their families if they did not agree to suspend me in the first place."

"One hopes that no more of Voldemort's old school things should find their way into innocent hands."

"Tell me again, Maximus, why are we here?"

"Gentlemen, you have had four hours, you had better have results."

"I never want to hear that music again."

"Mr Dascombe, what are we doing about that?"

"I want Prothero to speak tonight on the dangers of these old buildings and how we must avoid clinging to the edifice of a decadent past."

"He should conclude that the New Bailey will become the symbol of our time and the future that our conviction has rewarded us."

"Moments such as these are matters of faith."

"To fail is to invite doubt into everything we believe, everything that we have fought for."

"Doubt will plunge this country back into chaos and I will not let that happen."

"Gentlemen, I want this terrorist found, and I want him to understand what terror really means."

"Am I to understand that you have read this document, inspector?"

"And rich white people pay me to play piano for them because it makes them feel cultured."

"But as soon as I step off that stage, I go right back to being just another negro to them."

"And I suffer that side alone, because I'm not accepted by my own people 'cause I'm not like them, either."

"So if I'm not black enough and if I'm not white enough and if I'm not man enough then tell me, Tony, what am I!?"

"You only win when you maintain your dignity."

"I'm about to embark on a concert tour in the Deep South."

"And those weren't children on the cover, those were demons in the bowels of Hell."

"Next time you need extra money, just ask me."

"So stooping down in the gravel pitching dice for pocket change makes you a winner?"

"They didn't have a choice whether to be inside or out."

"I know there's no way I can convince you this is not one of their tricks, but I don't care; I am me."

"I don't think I'll live much longer, and I wanted to tell someone about my life."

"This is the only autobiography I'll ever write, and God - I'm writing it on toilet paper."

"I don't remember much of those early years, but I do remember the rain."

"My grandmother owned a farm in Tuttlebrook, and she used to tell me that God was in the rain."

"I passed my 11th lesson into girl's grammar."

"It was at school that I met my first girlfriend."

"I thought we would love each other forever."

"I remember our teacher telling us that it was an adolescent phase people outgrew."

"In 2002, I fell in love with a girl named Christina."

"I don't want you messing around with southpaws."

"This guy, the one you want to fight, he looks serious."

"I saw you beat that man like I never saw no man get beat before, and the man kept coming after you."

"Now, we don't need that kinda man like that in our lives."

"Girls love you - Men, old people love you."

"This bum shouldn't be in the same ring with you."

"I want you to show him who you are tonight."

"Punch and punch, till you can't punch no more!"

"You know all there is to know about fighting, so there's no sense us going down that same old road again."

"To beat this guy, you need speed - you don't have it."

"He was born with his foot in his mouth."

"You know me, always taking on too much."

"Like you guys tell your parents off, Mr."

"Well just don't tell me how to talk to my father."

"I don't give a damn about any of it."

"Hey, you coming to the study group tonight?"

"To fully understand poetry, we must first be fluent with its meter, rhyme, and figures of speech."

"Then ask two questions: One, how artfully has the objective of the poem been rendered, and two, how important is that objective."

"Question one rates the poem's perfection, question two rates its importance."

"And once these questions have been answered, determining a poem's greatest becomes a relatively simple matter."