Christine Everheart Quotes in Iron Man (2008)

[last lines]

Tony Stark: There's been speculation that I was involved in the events that occurred on the freeway and the rooftop...

Christine Everheart: I'm sorry, Mr. Stark, but do you honestly expect us to believe that that was a bodyguard in a suit that conveniently appeared, despite the fact that...

Tony Stark: I know that it's confusing. It is one thing to question the official story, and another thing entirely to make wild accusations, or insinuate that I'm a superhero.

Christine Everheart: I never said you were a superhero.

Tony Stark: Didn't?

Christine Everheart: Mmm-mmm.

Tony Stark: Well, good, because that would be outlandish and, uh, fantastic. I'm just not the hero type. Clearly. With this laundry list of character defects, all the mistakes I've made, largely public.

Rhodey: [whispers to Tony] Just stick to the cards, man.

Tony Stark: Yeah, okay.

[holds up his notes and pauses]

Tony Stark: The truth is...

[puts cards down]

Tony Stark: I am Iron Man.

Christine Everheart: Mr. Stark! Christine Everheart, Vanity Fair magazine. Can I ask you a couple of questions?

Hogan: [whispers to Stark] She's cute.

Tony Stark: [whispers to Hogan] She's alright.

[turns around]

Tony Stark: Hi!

Christine Everheart: Hi.

Tony Stark: Yeah. Okay, go.

Christine Everheart: You've been called the Da Vinci of our time. What do you say to that?

Tony Stark: Absolutely ridiculous. I don't paint.

Christine Everheart: And what do you say to your other nickname, the Merchant of Death?

Tony Stark: That's not bad. Let me guess... Berkeley?

Christine Everheart: Brown, actually.

Tony Stark: Well, Ms. Brown. It's an imperfect world, but it's the only one we got. I guarantee you the day weapons are no longer needed to keep the peace, I'll start making bricks and beams for baby hospitals.

Christine Everheart: Rehearse that much?

Tony Stark: Every night in front of the mirror before bedtime.

Christine Everheart: I can see that.

Tony Stark: I'd like to show you firsthand.

Christine Everheart: [exasperated] All I'm looking for is a straight answer.

Tony Stark: [removing his shades] OK, here's a straight answer. My old man had a philosophy: peace means having a bigger stick than the other guy.

Christine Everheart: That's a great line, coming from a guy selling the sticks.

Tony Stark: My father helped defeat Nazis. He worked on the Manhattan Project. A lot of people, including your professors at Brown, would call that being a hero.

Christine Everheart: And a lot of people would also call that war-profiteering.

Tony Stark: Tell me, do you plan to report on the millions we've saved by advancing medical technology or kept from starvation with our intelli-crops? All those breakthroughs, military funding, honey.

Christine Everheart: Have you ever lost an hour of sleep in your life?

Tony Stark: I'm be prepared to lose a few with you.

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?

[Everhart shows Stark some photos]

Christine Everheart: [disgusted at Stark's evident hypocrisy] Is this what you call accountability?

[Stark looks at photos of Stark Industries weapons in Afghanistan]

Tony Stark: When were these taken?

Christine Everheart: Yesterday.

Tony Stark: I didn't authorize this.

Christine Everheart: Well, your company did.

Tony Stark: Well I'm not my company!

Christine Everheart: [at the Firefighter's Family Fund Benefit] Well, Tony Stark!

Tony Stark: [awkwardly] Oh, hey.

Christine Everheart: Fancy seeing you here.

Tony Stark: [tries to remember] Carrie.

Christine Everheart: Christine.

Tony Stark: That's right.

Christine Everheart: You have a lot of nerve showing up here tonight. Can I at least get a reaction from you?

Tony Stark: Panic. I would say panic is my reaction.

Christine Everheart: I was referring to your company's involvement in this latest atrocity.

Tony Stark: Yeah, they just put my name on the invitation, I don't know what to tell you.