Quotes from Tony Stark:
I had my eyes opened. I came to realise that I have more to offer this world than just making things that blow up.
I am Iron Man.
- Tony Stark: You stood by my side all these years while I reaped the benefits of destruction. And now that I'm trying to protect the people that I put in harm's way, you're going to walk out?
- 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. You're all I have, too, you know.
- Tony Stark: My old man had a philosophy, "Peace means having a bigger stick than the other guy."
- Christine Everhart: That's a great line coming from the guy selling the sticks.
- Tony Stark: It's an imperfect world, but it's the only one we've 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 Everhart: Rehearse that much?
- Tony Stark: Every night in front of the mirror before bedtime.
Quotes from others:
Raza: The bow and arrow once was the pinnacle of weapons technology. It allowed the great Genghis Khan to rule from the Pacific to the Ukraine. An empire twice the size of Alexander the Great and four times the size of the Roman Empire. But today, whoever holds the latest Stark weapons rules these lands.
Yinsen: Don't waste it. Don't waste your life.
Yinsen: If my math is right, and it always is, three gigajoules per second. That could run your heart for 50 lifetimes. Or something big for 15 minutes.
Obadiah Stane: Oh, it's beautiful. Tony, this is your Ninth Symphony. What a masterpiece. Look at that. This is your legacy.
