The Dark Knight Rises completes Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy.
Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne in The Dark Knight Rises: "I do fear death. I fear dying in here while my city burns."
Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle in The Dark Knight Rises: "Do you think this is gonna last? There's a storm coming, Mr. Wayne. You and your friends better batten down the hatches, because when it hits, you're all gonna wonder how you ever thought you could live so large and leave so little for the rest of us."
Tom Hardy as Bane in The Dark Knight Rises: "Gotham, take control… take control of your city. Behold, the instrument of your liberation! Identify yourself to the world!"
- Movie
- The Dark Knight Rises
- Year
- 2012
- Character
- Commissioner Jim Gordon
- Actor
- Gary Oldman
Commissioner Jim Gordon is the world weary but utterly incorruptible police officer who battles tirelessly to keep Gotham from falling into the abyss.
The Dark Knight Rises – Commissioner Jim Gordon Quotes
Jim Gordon on his predecessor, the heroic figure on whom the city depends:
Jim Gordon: I knew Harvey Dent. I was his friend. And it will be a very long time before someone inspires us the way he did. I believed in Harvey Dent.
Reading from the book “A Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens:
Jim Gordon: I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy. I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
Commissioner Gordon talkes about the difference between policing in principle, and policing in practice:
Commissioner Gordon: When you’re out there, the rules aren’t weapons anymore… they’re shackles, keeping you from the bad guy.
Jim Gordon: We were in this together, and then you were gone. Now this evil… rises. The Batman has to come back.
Bruce Wayne: What if he doesn’t exist any more?
Jim Gordon: He must… he must…
Commissioner Gordon: The people ought to know the hero who saved them!
Batman: Anyone can be a hero, even a man who did something so simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a young boy’s shoulders, to let him know the world hadn’t ended.
Commissioner Gordon: Bruce Wayne…
Jim Gordon is hauled into the kangaroo courtroom:
Judge: So what will it be Jim? Death or Exile?
Gordon: If you think we’ll willingly walk the ice, you’ve got another thing coming.
Judge: So death then?
Gordon: It looks that way.
Judge: Okay then, death, by exile.
The Dark Knight Rises
Cast and Characters
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Tom Hardy as Bane in The Dark Knight Rises: "Gotham, take control… take control of your city. Behold, the instrument of your liberation! Identify yourself to the world!"
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Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne in The Dark Knight Rises: "I do fear death. I fear dying in here while my city burns."
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Gary Oldman as Commissioner Jim Gordon in The Dark Knight Rises: "I see a beautiful city and brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy. I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt as John Blake in The Dark Knight Rises: "Not a lot of people know what it feels like to be angry, in your bones. I mean, they understand, foster parents, everybody understands, for a while. Then they want the angry little kid to do something he knows he can't do, move on. So after a while they stop understanding. They send the angry kid to a boys home. I figured it out too late. You gotta learn to hide the anger, practice smiling in the mirror. It's like putting on a mask."
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Morgan Freeman as Lucious Fox in The Dark Knight Rises: "I call it The Bat. And yes, Mr. Wayne, it does come in black."
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Marion Cotillard as Miranda Tate in The Dark Knight Rises: "Innocent is a strong word to throw around Gotham, Bruce. I'll honor my father by finishing his work. Vengeance against the man who killed him is simply reward for my patience."
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Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle in The Dark Knight Rises: "Do you think this is gonna last? There's a storm coming, Mr. Wayne. You and your friends better batten down the hatches, because when it hits, you're all gonna wonder how you ever thought you could live so large and leave so little for the rest of us."
Random Dystopia Quotes
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Tim Pigott-Smith as Peter Creedy in V For Vendetta: "Not so funny now is it, funny man?"
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James Marcus as Georgie in A Clockwork Orange: "All right, no more picking on Dim, brother. That's part of the new way."
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Arnold Schwarzenegger as The Terminator: "I'll be back..."
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Cyril Cusack as Charrington in Nineteen Eighty-Four: "Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St. Clements..."
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Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor in The Terminator: "Oh, come on. Do I look like the mother of the future? I mean am I tough, organized? I can't even balance my checkbook. Look Reese, I didn't ask for this honor and I don't WANT IT, ANY OF IT!"
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Cyril Cusack as The Captain in Fahrenheit 451: "Listen to me, Montag. Once to each fireman, at least once in his career, he just itches to know what these books are all about. He just aches to know. Isn't that so?"
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Gore Vidal as Director Josef in Gattaca: "I reviewed your flight plan. Not one error in a million keystrokes. Phenomenal. It's right that someone like you is taking us to Titan."
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Stephen Rea as Eric Finch in V For Vendetta: "If our own government was responsible for the deaths of almost a hundred thousand people... would you really want to know?"
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt as John Blake in The Dark Knight Rises: "Not a lot of people know what it feels like to be angry, in your bones. I mean, they understand, foster parents, everybody understands, for a while. Then they want the angry little kid to do something he knows he can't do, move on. So after a while they stop understanding. They send the angry kid to a boys home. I figured it out too late. You gotta learn to hide the anger, practice smiling in the mirror. It's like putting on a mask."
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