Have you ever danced with the Devil in the pale moonlight?
Some men just want to watch the world burn
It's not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me.
If you're good at something, never do it for free.
Never rub another man's rhubarb.
Let's put a smile on that face!
...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.
If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, you become something else entirely.
I won't kill you but I don't have to save you.
I believe that whatever doesn't kill you, simply makes you... stranger.
You can call me Joker. And as you can see, I'm a lot happier.
Want know how I got these scars? My father was a drinker and a fiend. And one night he goes off crazier than usual. Mommy gets the kitchen knife to defend herself. He doesn't like that. Not one bit. So, me watching, he takes the knife to her, laughing while he does it. He turns to me, and he says, 'why so serious?' He comes at me with the knife. 'Why so serious?!'. He sticks the blade in my mouth. 'Let's put a smile on that face!' And why so serious?
If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal and if they can't stop you, you become something else entirely - legend, Mr 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.
Decent people shouldn't live here. They'd be happier some place else.
Sometimes you just can't get rid of a bomb!
Now comes the part where I relieve you, the little people, of the burden of your failed and useless lives. But remember, as my plastic surgeon always said: if you gotta go, go with a smile.
You'll hunt me. You'll condemn me. Set the dogs on me. Because that's what needs to happen. Because sometimes truth isn't good enough. Sometimes people deserve more. Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded.
You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.
I have given a name to my pain, and it is Batman.
or simply:
