Iron Man (2008)

Gwyneth Paltrow: Pepper Potts

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• Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : Tony, you know that I would help you with anything, but I cannot help you if you're going to start all this again.

  Tony Stark : There is nothing except this. There's no art opening, no charity, nothing to sign. There's the next mission, and nothing else.

  Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : Is that so? Well, then I quit.

  Tony Stark : You stood by my side all these years while I reaped the benefits of destruction. Now that I'm trying to protect the people I've put in harm's way, you're going to walk out?

  Virginia '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.

• Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : [after Stark's one night stand with Christine]  I have your clothes here; they've been dry cleaned and pressed. And there's a car waiting for you outside that will take you anywhere you'd like to go.

  Christine Everheart : You must be the famous Pepper Potts.

  Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : [smiles and nods]  Indeed I am.

  Christine Everheart : After all these years, Tony still has you picking up the dry cleaning.

  Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : I do anything and everything Mr. Stark requires. Including occasionally taking out the trash. Will that be all?

• Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : [walking in on Stark's robots trying to get him out of the Iron Man suit]  What is going on here?

  Tony Stark : Let's face it, this is not the worst thing you've caught me doing.

  Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : Are those bullet holes?

• Tony Stark : What are you trying to get rid of me for? You got plans?

  Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : As a matter of fact, I do.

  Tony Stark : I don't like it when you have plans.

  Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : I'm allowed to have plans on my birthday.

  Tony Stark : It's your birthday?

  Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : Yes.

  Tony Stark : I knew that. Already?

  Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : Yeah, isn't that strange? It's the same day as last year.

  Tony Stark : Well, get yourself something nice for me.

  Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : I already did.

  Tony Stark : Yeah? And?

  Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : Oh, it's very nice... very tasteful. Thank you, Mr. Stark.

  Tony Stark : You're welcome, Ms. Potts.

• Tony Stark : Am I making you uncomfortable?

  Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : Oh, no, I always forget to wear deodorant and dance with my boss in a room full of people I work with in a dress with no back.

  Tony Stark : Well, you look great, you smell great. But I could fire you if that would take the edge off.

  Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : I don't think you could tie your shoes without me.

  Tony Stark : I'd make it a week.

  Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : A week, really? What's your social security number?

  Tony Stark : [he pauses] 

  Tony Stark : Five...

  Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : [smiling]  "Five?" You're missing just a couple of digits.

  Tony Stark : Right, the other eight. Well, I have you for the other eight.

• [Stark and Potts carry out an arc reactor transplant] 

  Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : Don't ever, ever, ever, ask me to do anything like that, ever again!

  Tony Stark : I don't have anyone but you.

• [Pepper is reaching into Tony's chest cavity] 

  Tony Stark : Okay now, the copper wire - you got it?

  Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : Yeah, I've got it.

  Tony Stark : Now pull it out, gently, and just make sure you don't touch the s...

  [BUZZ!] 

  Tony Stark : AH! - i-i-i-des!

  Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : Sorry, I'm sorry!

  Tony Stark : Don't touch the sides, that's what I was trying to tell you before. Now, just gently pull that out, and whatever you do, don't pull out the...

  [Pepper pulls out the end, Tony's heart monitors go off] 

  Tony Stark : The magnet at the end of it. See, that was it. You just...

  Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : What?

  Tony Stark : What I was trying to tell you - no, don't put it back in! Just put it over there, we have to hurry...

  Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : What's wrong?

  Tony Stark : Oh, nothing, I'm just going into cardiac arrest, because you...

  Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : *What*? I thought you said this was safe!

  Tony Stark : ...just yanked it out like a trout!

• Tony Stark : Hmmm. Your eyes are red. Tears for your long lost boss?

  Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : Tears of joy. I hate job hunting.

  Tony Stark : Yeah, well, vacation's over.

• Tony Stark : Pepper, uh, how big are your hands?

  Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : What?

  Tony Stark : How big are your hands?

  Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : I don't understand why...

  Tony Stark : Get down here. I need you.

• Tony Stark : [as Pepper is walking down the stairs]  Hey. Ow,Ah Ah Ah Ah Ah Ah Ah Ah Ah Ah.

  Jarvis : It is a tight fit sir.

  Tony Stark : Hey, Ah.

  Jarvis : Sir the more you struggle the more this is going to hurt

  Tony Stark : Be gentle. This is my first time.

  Tony Stark : I designed this to come off, so... hey. I really should be able to...

  Jarvis : Please, try not to move sir.

  Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : Whats going on here?

  Tony Stark : [pauses]  Lets face it. This is not the worst thing you've caught me doing.

  Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : Are those bullet holes?

• Agent Phil Coulson : I'm Agent Phil Coulson with the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division.

  Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : That's quite a mouthful.

  Agent Phil Coulson : I know. We're working on it.

• Tony Stark : [under fire from Obadiah]  Time to hit the button!

  Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : You told me not to...

  Tony Stark : JUST DO IT!

  Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : YOU'LL DIE!

  Tony Stark : PUSH IT!

• Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : [to Tony]  You're all I have too, you know.

• Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : Agent Coulson, I just wanted to say thank you very much for all of your help.

  Agent Phil Coulson : That's what we do. You'll be hearing from us.

  Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : From the Strategic Homeland...

  Agent Phil Coulson : Just call us S.H.I.E.L.D.

• [Tony is going into cardiac arrest] 

  Tony Stark : We have to hurry. Take this, take this...

  Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : Okay, okay...

  Tony Stark : Now you have to take this wire and attach it to the base plate, there.

  Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : Okay... Tony?

  Tony Stark : What?

  Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : Tony, it's gonna be okay.

  Tony Stark : Is it?

  Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : It's gonna be okay. I-I am gonna make this okay.

  Tony Stark : Let's hope.

  [She reaches in again and hooks up the new heart machine - CLICK!] 

  Tony Stark : YAAA-OOOOOW...!

  [normal voice] 

  Tony Stark : Was that so hard? That was fun, right?

• Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : [upon seeing Stark wearing a machine around his arm]  I thought you said you were done making weapons?

  Tony Stark : It isn't. This is a flight stabilizer. It's completely harmless.

  [Stark is blasted back by the force of the machine] 

  Tony Stark : I didn't expect that.

• [Pepper sends Stark a gift: an arc reactor in a case] 

  Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : [inscription]  "Proof that Tony Stark has a heart."

• Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : You are supposed to be halfway around the world by now.

  Tony Stark : How'd she take it?

  Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : Like a champ.

  Tony Stark : Why are you trying to hustle me out of here?

  Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : Your flight was scheduled to leave an hour and a half ago.

  Tony Stark : It's funny, I though with it being my plane and all that it would just wait for me.

  Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : Tony, I need to speak to you about a couple of things before I get you out...

  Tony Stark : I mean, doesn't it kind of defeat the whole purpose of having your own plane if it departs before you arrive?

• Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : [about Stark's old arc reactor]  What do you want me to do with this?

  Tony Stark : That? Destroy it. Incinerate it.

  Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : You don't want to keep it?

  Tony Stark : Pepper, I've been called many things. Nostalgic is not one of them.

• Tony Stark : Where'd you get that dress?

  Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : It was a birthday present... from you, actually.

  Tony Stark : I got great taste, don't I? You, uh, wanna dance?

  Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : Oh, no, thank you.

  Tony Stark : [leading her to the dance floor]  All right, come on.

• [repeated line] 

  Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : Will that be all, Mr. Stark?

  Tony Stark : Yes, that will be all, Miss. Potts.

• Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : [fumbling inside Stark's chest]  Oh... ah... EWW, there's pus!

  Tony Stark : It's not pus. It's an inorganic plasmic discharge. It's from the device, not my body.

  Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : It smells!

  Tony Stark : Yeah, it does.

• Tony Stark : [a hole in his chest]  I just want you to reach in, and gently lift the wire out.

  Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : Is it safe?

  Tony Stark : Yeah. It should be fine. It's just like Operation, just don't let it touch the socket.

  Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : What do you mean, Operation?

  Tony Stark : It's just a game, never mind. Just gently lift the wire, okay? All right...

  Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : You know, I... uh... I don't think that I'm qualified to do that.

  Tony Stark : No, no. You're fine. You are the most capable, qualified, trustworthy person I've ever met, you'll do great. Is it too much to ask? 'Cause I really need your help here.

• Agent Phil Coulson : [about Obadiah]  Looks like you were right, he was building a suit.

  Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : I thought it'd be bigger...

  [the Iron Monger attacks] 

• Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : I would like a vodka martini, please.

  Tony Stark : Okay.

  Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : Very dry, with olives, a lot of olives. Like, at least three olives.

  Tony Stark : [to bartender]  Two vodka martinis, extra dry, extra olives, extra... fast.

• Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : Tony, you have to go to the hospital. The doctor has to look at you.

  Tony Stark : I don't have to do anything. I've been in captivity for three months. There are two things I want to do. One, I want an American cheeseburger, and the other...

  Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : That's enough of that.

  Tony Stark : It's not what you think. I want you to call for a press conference.

  Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : Call for a press conference? What on earth for?

  Tony Stark : Hogan, drive. Cheeseburger first, then press conference.

• [Stark and Stane fight on the roof of the Stark Industries power plant] 

  Tony Stark : [intercom]  Potts.

  Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : Tony, are you okay?

  Tony Stark : Listen to me. We have to overload the arc reactor and blast the roof.

  Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : Well, how are you going to do that?

  Tony Stark : YOU're going to do it! Go to the central console, open up all the circuits. When I get clear, I'll let you know, and then you hit the master bypass button.

• Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : Obadiah, he-he's gone insane!

  Tony Stark : I know!

  Virginia 'Pepper' Potts : He-he built a suit!

  Tony Stark : Listen, you'd better get out of there! Just get out-!

  [Iron Monger breaks up through the ground] 

  Obadiah Stane : Where do you think you're going?