- Tony Stark: [destroying weapons, tanks, and helicopters during the Stark Weapons mission] ...I am really kicking ass out here.
- Jarvis: I don't understand this 'ass kicking' reference, sir.
- Tony Stark: Jarvis, remind me to develop a personality for you later.
- [after completing the Mark I suit]
- Tony Stark: Look at it. It's gorgeous.
- Yinsen: Very nice, Stark. Our captors will love it.
- Tony Stark: It's not for them. It's for us. We're getting out of here.
- Yinsen: Ah, I see. And what happens with this?
- Tony Stark: What? Are you kidding? I'm gonna build more. This is a work of art. I've never designed anything like it. Just look at it. This is the future, Yinsen.
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: Tony, what's happened to you?
- Tony Stark: Pepper, listen. I never should've made it out of that cave. Now, I know what I have to do.
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: I don't understand.
- Tony Stark: My life's work, everything I built! Countless lives RUINED by my inventions! I HAVE TO DESTROY THEM!
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: You can't do this alone! It's too much!
- Tony Stark: I don't have a choice. Make sure Obie does what I told him. He'll need convincing. Look, I-I have to go on a... business trip.
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: What trip? There's nothing on your calendar.
- Tony Stark: Just came up.
- Tony Stark: I'm not the problem here. It's the Maggia! They're the ones supplying criminals with weapons.
- Col. James 'Rhodey' Rhodes: No! The problem, Tony, is you're fighting a war! And you're not a soldier!
- Tony Stark: You're damn right I'm not! I'm an army! And I don't care how rich Maggia made me. I'm gonna bury them!
- Iron Man: So, Rhodey. You're gonna be my "wingman?"
- Col. James 'Rhodey' Rhodes: Everything's always a joke with you.
- Iron Man: Who whizzed in your cornflakes, buddy?
- Col. James 'Rhodey' Rhodes: And who's holding down the company fort while you're out there?
- Iron Man: Uh, not my problem. I'm the idea guy. I let suits like Stane handle the day-to-day.
- Col. James 'Rhodey' Rhodes: You'll never change, Tony.
- Iron Man: And why should I?
- Obadiah Stane: I'm not giving anything up. I did what I had to do to save your father's company.
- Tony Stark: No. You crossed the line, Obie. Dad never would've gone along with ANY of this!
- Obadiah Stane: Your father understood business. This is beyond you.
- Tony Stark: Business? This is Insanity!
- Obadiah Stane: Insanity is thinking you could build these weapons and then... look away when people use them. This is the real world, Tony. It's time you started living in it.
- Tony Stark: You know what? This is a waste of time. I'm not letting you do this.
- Obadiah Stane: You seem to think you hold the cards here, Tony. Ms. Potts would probably disagree.
- Tony Stark: What?
- Obadiah Stane: Did you think I wouldn't find out what she was doing?
- Tony Stark: If you hurt her...
- Obadiah Stane: Don't force my hand then!
- Tony Stark: It doesn't have to be this way, Obadiah. But I AM coming for Pepper
- Obadiah Stane: You always do what you want, Tony. I'll do... what I must!
- [Suits up as Iron Monger]
- Obadiah Stane: You never really did come home, did you? You left a part of yourself in that cave. And it breaks my heart.
- Obadiah Stane: I'm gonna take you down, Tony! You and your suit. You're trying to stop progress. IT CAN'T BE DONE! You've built the greatest weapon ever seen... only for you to keep it to yourself!
- Yinsen: The man who embraces his heroic nature pays a terrible price. He sees the darkness in the world, and in his own heart, and is forever changed. The child gives way to the man. And the day comes when he must ask himself, "What kind of man will I be? Am I willing to die on my feet? Or will I live my life on my knees? Do I have what it takes to become truly great? To become more than a man?" To become... IRON MAN!