Ian McKellen: Magneto

X-Men

Magneto

[last lines]
[Xavier and Magneto play a game of chess at Magneto's cell]
Magneto: Does it ever wake you in the middle of the night? The feeling that one day they will pass that foolish law or one just like it, and come for you? And your children?
Professor Charles Xavier: It does, indeed.
Magneto: What do you do, when you wake up to that?
Professor Charles Xavier: I feel a great swell of pity for the poor soul who comes to that school... looking for trouble.
Magneto: [halts the game, sighs] Why do you come here, Charles?
Professor Charles Xavier: Why do you ask questions to which you already know the answer?
Magneto: Ah, yes. Your continuing search for hope.
[motions to the guard to take Xavier away]
Magneto: You know this plastic prison of theirs won't hold me forever. The war is still coming, Charles. And I intend to fight it, by any means necessary.
Professor Charles Xavier: And I will always be there, old friend.

Magneto: Why do none of you understand what I'm trying to do? Those people down there- they control our fate and the fate of every other mutant! Well, soon our fate will be theirs.
[Rogue screams for help]
Wolverine: You're so full of shit! If you're really so righteous, it'd be you in that thing.

[trapped inside the Statue of Liberty]
Cyclops: Storm, fry him!
Magneto: Oh yes! A bolt of lightning into a huge copper conductor. I thought you lived at a school?

[At the Statue of Liberty]
Magneto: Magnificent, isn't she?
Rogue: I've seen it.
Magneto: I first saw her in 1949. America was going to be the land of tolerance. Peace.
Rogue: Are you going to kill me?
Magneto: Yes.
Rogue: Why?
Magneto: Because there is no land of tolerance. There is no peace. Not here, or anywhere else. Whole families destroyed, simply because they were born different from those in power. Well, after tonight, the world's powerful will be just like us. They will return home as brothers, as mutants. Our cause will be theirs. Your sacrifice will mean our survival. l'll understand if that comes as small consolation.

Magneto: You "homo sapiens" and your guns!
[Sabretooth suddenly grabs Magneto by the throat]
Professor Charles Xavier: [through Sabretooth] That's enough, Eric!
Professor Charles Xavier: [through Toad] Let them go!
Magneto: Why not come out where I can see you, Charles?
Professor Charles Xavier: What do you want her for?
Magneto: [taps his helmet] Can't you read my mind?... What now? Save the girl? You'll have to kill me, Charles. And what will that accomplish? Let them pass that law, and they'll have you in chains with a number burned into your forehead!
Professor Charles Xavier: It won't be that way!
Magneto: Then kill me and find out.
[pause]
Magneto: No? Then release me.
[pause, Toad turns away, freed from the control, but Sabretooth retains his grip]
Magneto: Fine.
[sets off the guns with his magnetism, halting the bullets before they pierce the policemen's bodies]
Magneto: Care to press your luck, Charles? I don't think I can stop them all.
[Sabretooth releases Magneto]
Magneto: Still unwilling to make sacrifices. That's what makes you weak. Goodbye, Charles.

[Charles senses someone at Senator Kelly's hearing]
Professor Charles Xavier: Eric, what are you doing here?
Magneto: Why do you ask questions to which you already know the answer?
Professor Charles Xavier: Don't give up on them, Erik.
Magneto: What would you have me do, Charles? I've heard these arguments before.
Professor Charles Xavier: That was a long time ago. Mankind has evolved since then.
Magneto: Yes, into us.
[Magneto turns and looks at the Professor]
Magneto: [taps his head] Are you sneaking around in here, Charles? Whatever are you looking for?
Professor Charles Xavier: I'm looking for hope.
Magneto: I will bring you hope, old friend, and I ask only one thing in return - don't get in my way.
[strides off]
Magneto: We are the future, Charles, not them! They no longer matter!

[Logan confronts Magneto for the first time]
Magneto: You must be Wolverine. That remarkable metal doesn't run through your entire body, does it?
Logan: What do you want with me?
Magneto: You? My dear boy, who ever said I wanted you?
[Logan looks at Marie]

[to Senator Kelly]
Magneto: Are you a God-fearing man, Senator? That is such a strange phrase. I've always thought of God as a teacher; a bringer of light, wisdom, and understanding. You see, I think what you really fear is me. Me and my kind. The Brotherhood of Mutants. Oh, it's not so surprising really. Mankind has always feared what it doesn't understand. Well, don't fear God, Senator, and certainly don't fear me. Not any more.
[prepares his machine]
Senator Kelly: What do you intend to do to me?
Magneto: Let's just say, God works too slow.

Magneto: What happended?
Sabretooth: They knew.
Magneto: Charles!
[Magneto examines Wolverine's army dog tags that Sabertooth is now wearing]
Magneto: Where's the mutant now?
Sabretooth: With them.
Magneto: I have made the first move. That is all they know. Come, the UN summit is approaching. Time for our little test.

Senator Kelly: What'd you do with Henry?
Magneto: Your aide, Mr. Gyrich, has been dead for some time, senator. I've had Mystique here keep you company. She takes so many shapes.

Senator Kelly: What the hell have you done to me?
Magneto: Senator, this is pointless. Where would you go? Who would take you in now that your one of us?

Dr. Jean Grey: I saw Senator Kelly.
Magneto: So, the senator survived the fall, and the swim to shore. He's become more powerful than I imagined.
Dr. Jean Grey: He's dead. Just like all those people out there will be.
Storm: It's true. I watched him die.
Magneto: Are you sure you saw what you saw?