100 Best Spider-Man 2 Quotes

Miss: Boss, your wife's on the line, she said she lost her checkbook.
J. Jonah Jameson: Thanks for the good news!

[Spider-Man rescues Harry]
Harry: This doesn't change anything.

- I'm back!
- I'm back!
- My back.
- My back.

- So it's somebody else's dream.
- What's your major? Theatre Arts?
- Science.
- Connors?
- He flunking you?
- He says he might.
- There you go.

- Look out!
- Help me!
- Help me!
- I'm coming!
- Hang on!

J. Jonah Jameson: [John Jameson has just been left at the altar by Mary Jane] Call Debra.
Mrs. Jameson: The caterer?
J. Jonah Jameson: Tell her not to open the caviar.

- Thus, the second-order term...
- ...in the expansion of the exact order...
- ...is identical to the second order...
- ...calculated from first-order perturbation energy.
- Since we are free to choose an arbitrary origin for our energy...

Mr. Aziz: Joe's 29-minute guarantee is a promise, man. I know to you, Parker, a promise means nothing, but to me it's serious.
Peter: It's serious to me too, Mr. Aziz.
Mr. Aziz: You're fired.

- Can you believe that it's two years next month since he was taken?
- I think to myself at times...
- ...were I to face the one responsible for what happened, I'd...
- Oh, I don't know what I'd do.
- Now...
- ...you better take the rest of your cake home.

- He was a--
- A thief! A criminal!
- He stole my suit!
- He's a menace to the entire city!
- I want that wall-crawling arachnid prosecuted!
- I want him strung up by his web!
- I want Spider-Man!

- You have a train to catch.
- Help!
- Help! Help! I can't stop it!
- The brakes are gone!
- It's Spider-Man.
- Oh, my God, this is it!
- Tell everyone to hang on!
- Brace yourselves!

Dr. Otto Octavius: [talking to his arms] Listen. Listen... to me now. Listen... to ME now!

- Well...
- At least we get the toaster.
- Actually, that's only with a deposit of 300 or more.
- Oh, yes, I see.
- Okay.
- Don't worry, we'll figure it out.

- Kiss me.
- Kiss you?
- I need to know something.
- Just one kiss.

- I'm Spider-Man.
- Weird, huh?
- Now you know why I can't be with you.
- If my enemies found out about you...
- ...if you got hurt,
- I could never forgive myself.
- I wish I could tell you how I feel about you.

- Not just "I love him very much."
- You read too many love stories.
- What about that perfect kiss you said you had once?
- The guy you believed in?
- That was a fantasy.
- That's all he is.
- But what's wrong with believing in love stories?

- I'm talking to you!
- You got what you needed for your little science project, now let me go.
- I can't let you go, you'd bring the police.
- Not that anybody could stop me now that Spider-Man's dead.
- He's not dead.
- I don't believe you.
- Believe it.

Peter: [unmasked, holding up the collapsing wall] Hi!
Mary: Hi!
Peter: This is really heavy... MJ, in case we die...
Mary: You do love me...
Peter: I do.
Mary: Even though you said you didn't.
Peter: [nods]

- Your paper on fusion is still overdue.
- I know. I'm planning to write it on Dr. Otto Octavius.
- Planning is not a major at this university.
- Octavius is a friend of mine.
- Better do your research, Parker.
- Get it done, or I'm failing you.

- You're un-fired.
- I need you, come here.
- What do you know about high society?
- Oh. Well, I--
- Don't answer that.
- My society photographer got hit in the head by a polo ball. You're all I got.
- Big party for an American hero.
- My son, the astronaut.
- Could you pay me in advance?

Miss: [Walks in with Peter] Chief, I found Parker.
J. Jonah Jameson: 'Bout time, where were you? Crazy scientist blows himself up, and we don't have pictures!
Joseph: I heard Spider-Man was there.
J. Jonah Jameson: [annoyed] And where were you, photographing squirrels? You're fired!
Miss: [Peter turns to leave] Chief, the planetarium party.
J. Jonah Jameson: Oh right, you're unfired, get back here!

Doc: My Rosie's dead. My dream is dead.
Doc: And these... monstrous things should be at the bottom of the river... along with me.
Doc: Something... in my head. Something talking... The inhibitor chip!
[He turns to find the chip destroyed]
Doc: Gone.
Doc: [arms click and whir] Rebuild? No. Peter was right. I miscalculated.
Doc: [Ock whirls, madness setting in] I couldn't have miscalculated. It was working, wasn't it?
[arms click and whir]
Doc: Yes. We can rebuild. Enlarge the containment field. Make it bigger and stronger than ever! But we need money.
[arms click and whir]
Doc: Steal it? No, no, no, I'm not a criminal.
[arms click and whir]
Doc: That's right... the real crime would be not to finish what we started.
Doc: [arms carry him into his hideout] We'll do it here. The power of the sun in the palm of my hand.
[arms lift him high]
Doc: Nothing will stand in our way! NOTHING!

[man steps into elevator. Spider-man is in the elevator]
Elevator: Cool Spidey outfit.
Spider: Thanks.
Elevator: Where did you get it?
Spider: I made it.
[pause]
Elevator: Looks uncomfortable...
Spider: Yeah, it's kind of itchy...
[pause]
Spider: ...and it rides up in the crotch a little bit, too.

- Alisa, the Chens can't find their daughter. Have you seen her?
- Somebody call the fire department!
- Help!
- Help!
- Is anybody in that building?
- We think there's a kid stuck on the second floor.
- Hey, where you going?!
- I'm coming!

- More?
- I don't know.
- I'm coming to see your play tomorrow night.
- You're coming?
- I'll be there.
- Don't disappoint me.
- I won't.

- It's water over the dam or under the bridge or wherever you like it.
- But you made a brave move in telling me the truth.
- And I'm proud of you.
- And I thank you, and I...
- I love you, Peter.
- So very, very much.

- Uncle Ben was killed that night...
- ...for being the only one who did the right thing.
- And I...
- I held his hand...
- ...when he died.
- I've tried to tell you so many times.

- No, Uncle Ben.
- I'm just Peter Parker.
- I'm Spider-Man...
- ...no more.
- No more.
- No more.

- Somebody, help!
- Fire!

- Precious tritium is the fuel that makes this project go.
- There's only 25 pounds of it on the whole planet.
- I'd like to thank Harry Osborn and
- Oscorp Industries for providing it.
- Happy to pay the bills, Otto.
- Ladies and gentlemen...
- ...fasten your seat belts.

- ...you will witness the birth of a new fusion-based energy source.
- Safe, renewable energy and cheap electricity for everyone.
- And now let me introduce my assistants.
- These four actuators were developed and programmed...
- ...for the sole purpose of creating successful fusion.
- They are impervious to heat and magnetism.

Rosalie: Peter, tell us about yourself. Do you have a girlfriend?
Peter: Uh, well... I don't really know.
Dr. Otto Octavius: Well, shouldn't you know? Who would know?
Rosalie: Leave him alone. Maybe it's a secret love.
Dr. Otto Octavius: Love should never be a secret. If you keep something as complicated as love stored up inside, it could make you sick.

- You hungry?
- Starved.

- Ladies and gentlemen,
- I just want you all to know...
- ...that the beautiful Miss Mary Jane
- Watson has just agreed to many me.
- What a surprise.
- Parker, wake up! Wake up!
- Shoot the picture!
- Oh, no. No!
- Why is this happening to me?

- My Rosie's dead.
- My dream is dead.
- And these...
- ...monstrous things should be at the bottom of the river...
- ...along with me.

- It's a web.
- Go, Spidey, go!
- We got trouble!

Mr. Aziz: Goooooooooo!

- Joe's 29-minute guarantee is a promise, man.
- I know to you, Parker, a promise means nothing. But to me, it's serious.
- It's serious to me too, Mr. Aziz.
- You're fired. Go.
- Please, I need this job.
- You're fired.
- Look, give me another chance.

Dr. Otto Octavius: Before we start, has anybody lost a large roll of $20 bills in a rubber band? Because we found the rubber band.
[laughter]
Dr. Otto Octavius: It's a terrible joke... but thank you for coming.

- A Spider-Man
- A Spider-Man
- A-does whatever a spider can
- A-spins a web, any size
- Catches thieves a-just like flies
- Look out
- Here comes the Spider-Man

- Just one more little chore.
- Where are you?
- I'm leaving for the night, sir.
- Fine.
- Your father only obsessed over his work.
- Good night, Bernard.

- It's okay. It's okay. Come here.
- I'm gonna get you out of here.
- Come on. Come on.

Dr. Otto Octavius: The power of the sun, in the palm of my hand!

J. Jonah Jameson: I'll give you $150.00 for all of them!
Peter: $300.00.
J. Jonah Jameson: That's outrageous! Done. Give this to the girl.

- I'm not an empty seat anymore.
- I'm different.
- Punch me, I bleed.
- I have to go.
- I'm getting married in a church.
- You are different.

- Had to do what I had to do.
- Mary Jane.
- Peter.
- I can't survive without you.

[tossing a bag of coins back at Doc Ock]
Spider: Here's your change!

Rosalie: You need to sleep soundly tonight.
Dr. Otto Octavius: Did Edison sleep before he turned on the light bulb? Did Marconi sleep before he turned on the radio? Did Beethoven sleep before he wrote the fifth?
Peter: Did Bernoulli sleep before he found the curves of quickest descent?
Dr. Otto Octavius: Ahhh, Rosie, I love this boy.

- How do I find him?
- Peter Parker.
- Parker?
- He takes pictures of Spider-Man for the Bugle.
- Make him tell you where he is.
- Have it ready.
- Don't hurt Peter!

Peter: Can I get you a drink.
Mary: I'm with John, he'll get me my drink.
Peter: John...
Mary: By the way, John has seen my show 5 times. Harry has seen it twice. Aunt May has seen it. My sick mother got out of bed to see it. Even my father, he came backstage to borrow cash. But my best friend who cares so much about me, can't make 8 o'clock curtain. After all these years, he's nothing to me but an empty seat.

- Here's your change!
- Oh, no. Come on!
- You're getting on my nerves.
- I have a knack for that.
- Not anymore.

Mr. Ditkovich: If promises were crackers, my daughter would be fat.

Henry: Hi, Peter!
Peter: Hey, Henry! You've grown tall.
May: You'll never guess who he wants to be... Spider-Man!
Peter: Why?
May: He knows a hero when he sees one. Too few characters out there, flying around like that, saving old girls like me. And Lord knows, kids like Henry need a hero. Courageous, self-sacrificing people. Setting examples for all of us. Everybody loves a hero. People line up for them, cheer them, scream their names. And years later, they'll tell how they stood in the rain for hours just to get a glimpse of the one who taught them how to hold on a second longer. I believe there's a hero in all of us, that keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble, and finally allows us to die with pride, even though sometimes we have to be steady, and give up the thing we want the most. Even our dreams.

[repeated line]
Mr. Ditkovich: Rent!

- ...to take those dreams out into the world.
- I can't live your dreams anymore.
- I want a life of my own.
- You've been given a gift, Peter.
- With great power comes great responsibility.
- Take my hand, son.

- Don't act like you're my friend.
- You stole M.J. from me.
- You stole my father's love.
- Then you let him die because you didn't turn in the freak. Isn't that right?
- Huh? Isn't that right?
- Huh, brother?

- There you go.
- Thank you.
- Oh, have I been wrong about you.
- We sure showed him.
- What do you mean, "we"?
- Take me with you, Spider-Man.
- Take me.

Dr. Otto Octavius: [to Spider-man] I should've known Osborn wouldn't have the spine to finish you!

- Ladies and gentlemen, good evening.
- The committee for the Science Library of New York...
- ...is pleased to present our guest of honour.
- He's the first man to play football on the moon.
- The handsome, the heroic, the delicious...
- ...Captain John Jameson.

- You're a month late again. Again.
- I promise as soon as--
- If promises were crackers, my daughter would be fat.
- I'm really sorry, Mr. Ditkovitch. All I got is this 20 for the rest of the week.
- "Sorry" doesn't pay the rent.
- And don't try to sneak past me. I have ears like a cat and eyes like a rodent.
- Thanks, Mr. Ditkovitch.
- Hi, Pete.

Train: [looking at Peter without his mask] He's... just a kid. No older than my son.

[brainstorming a catchy 'super-villain' nickname for Dr. Otto Octavius]
J. Jonah Jameson: What are we gonna call this guy?
Hoffman: 'Doctor Octopus'?
J. Jonah Jameson: That's crap.
Hoffman: 'Science Squid'?
J. Jonah Jameson: Crap.
Hoffman: 'Doctor Strange'.
J. Jonah Jameson: That's pretty good.
[Hoffman looks proud]
J. Jonah Jameson: But it's taken! Wait, wait! I got it! 'Doctor Octopus'.
Hoffman: But... uh...
[gives up]
Hoffman: I like it.
J. Jonah Jameson: Of course you do. 'Doctor Octopus'. New villain in town: 'Doc Ock'.
Hoffman: Genius.
J. Jonah Jameson: What, are you looking for a raise? Get out!

- Hang on, Mary Jane!
- Run!
- Let's see you scurry out of this.
- Now what?

[a troubled Harry holds his unused dagger in his hands, and broods over the revelations revealed to him. A door swings open, and he suddenly hears a cackling laugh...]
Harry: Hello?
[he takes a few steps and then hears a noise]
Harry: ...?
Green: Son...
[Harry looks around]
Green: [in a mirror] I'm here.
Harry: Dad? I thought you were...
Green: No. I'm alive in you, Harry. You swore to make Spider-Man pay... now make him pay.
Harry: But Pete's my best friend!
Green: [serious] And I'm your father. You're weak. You were always weak and you will always be weak until you take control!
[calmly]
Green: Now you know the truth about Peter. Be stong Harry. Avenge me.
Harry: No...
Green: AVENGE ME!
Harry: NO!
[he hurls the dagger at the mirror, smashing it. Within it, he discovers, lies a secret room. To his shock, he discovers the Goblin mask, shelves of pumpkin bombs, tubes of green elixir, the glider and finally understands it all...]

- You're weak.
- You were always weak. You'll always be weak until you take control.
- Now you know the truth about Peter.
- Be strong, Harry.
- Avenge me.
- Avenge me!
- No!

Pizza: Whoa... He stole that guy's pizza!

- That doesn't help.
- I do that all the time.
- Slow elevator.
- Yeah.

- We won't know the extent of the damage until we get in there.
- I suggest we cut off these mechanical arms, slice up the harness...
- ...and, if need be, consider a laminectomy...
- ...with posterior spinal fusion from C7-T1 to T12.
- We're ready, doctor.
- Anybody here take shop class?

- Nice and easy, we'll go down.
- Slower. Gently.
- Is he alive?
- He's...
- ...just a kid.
- No older than my son.

- No!
- Hi.
- Hi.
- This is really heavy.

Dr. Otto Octavius: Parker... Now I remember you. You're Dr. Connor's student. He tells me you're brilliant.
[Peter looks flattered]
Dr. Otto Octavius: He also tells me you're lazy.

- What was that?
- Okay.

- The same way you want the guy who killed your Uncle Ben dead.
- I'm sorry. I don't mean to rag on you on your birthday.
- You're my buddy, you know that.
- You're family, Pete.
- My father loved you.
- You were like a son to him.
- Thank you, Harry.

Dr. Davis: You say you can't sleep. Heart break? Bad Dreams?
Peter: There is one dream where in my dream, I'm Spider-Man. But I'm losing my powers. I'm climbing a wall but I keep falling.
Dr. Davis: Oh. So you're Spider-Man...
Peter: [interrupts Dr. Davis] In my dream... Actually, it's not even my dream, it's a friend of mine's dream.
Dr. Davis: Oh. Somebody else's dream. What about this friend? Why does he climb these walls? What does he think of himself?
Peter: That's the problem, he doesn't know what to think.
Dr. Davis: Kind of makes you mad not to know who you are? Your soul disappears, nothing is bad as uncertainty. Listen, maybe you're not supposed to be Spider-Man climbing those walls? That's why you keep falling. You'll always have a choice Peter.
Peter: [whispers] I have a choice.

Peter: Mr. Jameson, please, isn't there any of these shots you can use? I really need the money.
J. Jonah Jameson: Awww. Miss Brant?
Miss: Yeah?
J. Jonah Jameson: Get me a violin.

- Where do you want him?
- And the tritium?
- Yes.

- All right, 100. Give this man his money and throw in a bar of soap.
- Your wife is still on that line.
- Flowers? How much?
- You spend any more on this thing, you can pick the daisies off my grave.
- Get plastic.
- Gotta go, big story.

[about Spider-Man]
Harry: He humiliated me by touching me.

[first lines]
Peter: [narrating] She looks at me everyday. Mary Jane Watson. Oh boy! If she only knew how I felt about her. But she can never know. I made a choice once to live a life of responsibility. A life she can never be a part of. Who am I? I'm Spider-Man, given a job to do. And I'm Peter Parker, and I too have a job.

- It can't be stopped.
- It's self-sustaining now.
- Think!
- Unless...
- The river.
- Drown it.
- I'll do it.

J. Jonah Jameson: Come here. Parker, what do you know about high society?
Peter: Oh... well, I...
J. Jonah Jameson: Don't answer that. My society photographer got hit in the head by a polo ball. You're all I got. Big party tonight for an American hero, my son the astronaut.
Peter: [serious] Could you pay me in advance?
[Jameson laughs hysterically for a few seconds]
J. Jonah Jameson: You serious? What, pay you for just standing there? Tomorrow night, the planeterium, 8:00. There's the door.

Harry: Now... lets see who's behind the mask
[pulls off the mask to reveal Peter]
Harry: [stumbles backwards] Peter? No... it can't be.
Peter: [gets up] Harry, where is she? He's got MJ!
Harry: No... all he wanted was the tritium.
Peter: Tritium? He's making the machine again. When he does, she'll die alone with half of New York, now where is he?
Harry: [pause] Peter... you killed my father.
Peter: There are bigger things happening here than me and you.

- Surprise.
- As soon as you get free--
- I should have known Osborn wouldn't have the spine to finish you!
- Shut it down, Ock. You're going to hurt a lot more people this time.
- Well, that's a risk we're willing to take.
- Well, I'm not.

- Look-Smiley.
- What about my cheese pizza?
- Look, you are my only hope, all right?
- You have to make it in time.
- Peter, you're a nice guy.
- But you're just not dependable.
- This is your last chance.
- You have to go 42 blocks in 7 1/2 minutes or your ass is fired.
- Go!

Mary: [standing at Peter Parker's door] Had to do what I had to do.
Peter: Mary Jane.
Mary: Peter. I can't survive without you.
Peter: You shouldn't be here.
Mary: I know you think we can't be together, but can't you respect me enough to let me make my own decision? I know there'll be risks but I want to face them with you. It's wrong that we should be only half alive... half of ourselves. I love you. So here I am - standing in your doorway. I have always been standing in your doorway. Isn't it about time somebody saved your life?
Mary: Well, say something.
Peter: Thank you, Mary Jane Watson.
Mary: [They kiss, which is interrupted by police sirens. Peter stands, conflicted on whether he should respond. Mary Jane, with an accepting smile, responds:] Go get 'em, tiger.

- Poetry.
- Never fails.
- A tall and slender maiden
- All alone upon a prairie
- Brightest green were all her garments
- And her hair was like the sunshine
- Day by day he gazed upon her

- Aunt May.
- You don't have to punish yourself.
- Oh, I know I shouldn't.
- It's just that you wanted to take the subway...
- ...and he wanted to drive you.
- If only I had stopped him.
- We'd all three of us be having tea together.

J. Jonah Jameson: I drove Spider-Man away. My god, he was a hero. Spider-Man truly was an asset to this city. He was...
J. Jonah Jameson: [a whooshing sound is heard and Jameson turns around - realizing that the Spider-Man costume is gone] ... a criminal! That's who he is! A burglar! He stole my suit! I want Spider-Man!
[sees an open window]
J. Jonah Jameson: I WANT SPIDER-MAN!

- Oh, I'm sorry, sir. No one will be seated after the doors are closed.
- It helps maintain the illusion.
- I understand.
- Miss Watson, she's a friend of mine.
- She asked me to come.
- But not to come late.
- I have to see this show.
- Just let me in, I'll stand in the--

- You sure you don't wanna come tonight?
- Yeah, I'm sure.
- Okay. Call me.
- I will.
- You were great tonight.
- Thanks.
- May I have an autograph, please, miss?
- What are you doing here?

- Come on, come on.
- Help!
- Come on!
- It wasn't fair to have gone like that.
- He was a peaceful man.
- And it was all my doing.

- It's all right.
- We found something.
- We won't tell nobody.
- It's good to have you back,
- Spider-Man.

Peter: I'm responsible...
May: For what?
Peter: For what happened to Uncle Ben...
May: But, you were at the library, you were doing your homework.
Peter: He drove me to the library, but I never went in.
May: What do you mean?
Peter: [sobbing] I went someplace else, someplace where I thought I could win some money, to buy a car, because I wanted to impress Mary Jane. It happened so fast... I won the money, the guy wouldn't pay me, then he got robbed... the thief was running towards me... I could have stopped him, but I wanted to take revenge... I let him go, I let him get away. He wanted a car, he tried to take Uncle Ben's. Uncle Ben said no... and then he shot him. Uncle Ben was killed that night for being the only one who did the right thing. I held his hand when he died... I've tried to tell you so many times...

- ...but I can't.
- My mind was playing tricks too.
- Do you love me, or not?
- I...
- ...don't.
- You don't.

Peter: Dr. Connors. Sorry.
Dr. Curt Connors: Where were you headed, Parker?
Peter: To your class.
Dr. Curt Connors: My class is over. See me standing here?
Peter: I'm sorry. I'm trying. I wanna be here.
Dr. Curt Connors: Then be here. Look at you, Peter. Your grades have been steadily declining. You're late for class. You always appear exhausted. Your paper on fusion is still overdue.
Peter: I know. I'm planning to write it on Dr. Otto Octavius.
Dr. Curt Connors: Planning is not a major at this university. Octavius is a friend of mine. Better do your research, Parker. Get it done, or I'm failing you.

- He's mine!
- You want to get to him, you got to go through me.
- And me.
- Me too.
- Very well.

- Wow.
- I'm back on the moon.
- You up there with me?

Peter: [realizes he may have recovered his super-powers] I'm back! I'm back!
Peter: [falls down on a car, moans] My back. My back...

- And when the borderline is tau equals zero, the eigenvalues are...?
- Someone, please?
- .23 electron volts.
- Excellent work today, Parker.
- Keep it up.

- And one more thing. I have to make sure I'm right about what I want.
- Listen...
- ...maybe you're not supposed to be
- Spider-Man climbing those walls.
- That's why you keep falling.
- You always have a choice, Peter.
- I have a choice.