X-Men: First Class Quotes

Professor Charles Xavier: You know, I believe that true focus lies somewhere between rage and serenity. Would you mind if I...
[Charles makes a gesture to request permission to read Erik's mind]
Erik Lehnsherr: [Erik signals approval and while Charles reads Erik minds. We see moments of Erik's childhood with his mother] What did you just do to me?

[Both Erik and Charles cries]
Professor Charles Xavier: I accessed the brightest corner of your memory system. It's a very beautiful memory, Erik. Thank you.
Erik Lehnsherr: I didn't know I still had that.
Professor Charles Xavier: There is so much more to you than you know. Not just pain and anger. There is good, too.

I felt it. When you can access all of that, you will possess a power no one can match. Not even me.

Professor Charles Xavier: Shaw's declared war on mankind on all of us, he has to be stopped.
Erik Lehnsherr: I am not gonna stop Shaw, I am gonna kill him. Do you have it in you to allow that?
[Erik pauses while Charles shifts in his chair uneasy]
Erik Lehnsherr: You known all along why I was here Charles, but things have

changed. What started as a covert of mission, tomorrow mankind will know mutants exist. Shaw, us, they won't differentiate. They'll fear us. And that fear will turn to hatred.
Professor Charles Xavier: Not if we stop a war, not if we can prevent Shaw, not if we risk our lives doing so.
Erik Lehnsherr: Would they do the same for us?

Professor Charles Xavier: We have it in us to be the better man.
Erik Lehnsherr: We already are! We are the next stage of human evolution, you said it yourself...
Professor Charles Xavier: [cuts in] No, no...
Erik Lehnsherr: Are you really so naive as to think that they won't battle their own extinction? Or is

it arrogance?
Professor Charles Xavier: [looks at Erik in disagreement] I am sorry.
Erik Lehnsherr: After tomorrow, they are gonna turn on us. But you are blinded because you believe they are all like Moira.
Professor Charles Xavier: And you believe they are all like Shaw.
[leans forward]
Professor

Charles Xavier: Listen to me very carefully, my friend: killing Shaw will not bring you peace.
Erik Lehnsherr: Peace was never an option.

[Magneto halts the missile barrage and directs it upon the fleet]
Professor Charles Xavier: Erik, you said yourself we're the better men. This is the time to prove it. There are thousands of men on those ships. Good, honest, innocent men! They're just following orders.
Erik Lehnsherr: I've been at the mercy of men just following orders. Never again.

Sean Cassidy: You truly believe I'll fly this time?
Professor Charles Xavier: Unreservedly.
Sean Cassidy: I trust you.
Professor Charles Xavier: I'm touched.
Sean Cassidy: [pointing at Hank] I don't trust him.
Professor Charles Xavier: [to Hank] Say nothing.

Sean Cassidy: I'm gonna die!
Professor Charles Xavier: Alright. Look, we're not gonna make you do anything without...
Erik Lehnsherr: Here, let me help you.
[pushes Sean off the antenna]
Professor Charles Xavier: Erik!
Erik Lehnsherr: What? You know you were thinking the same.

[a deflected bullet fired by Moira towards Erik hits Charles]
Erik Lehnsherr: [to Charles] I am so sorry.
Erik Lehnsherr: [Erik looks at Moira] YOU! You did this!
[Erik begins to strangle Moria with her necklace. Raven, Hank, Alex, and Sean walks toward Erik in order to stop him]
Erik Lehnsherr: I SAID BACK OFF!

[Erik throws Hank, Alex, and Sean into the air leaving Raven on the ground]
Professor Charles Xavier: Wait, please. She didn't do this, Erik. You did.
[Erik releases Moira]
Erik Lehnsherr: [Erik speaks apologetically towards Charles] Us turning on each other, it's what they want. I tired to warn you, Charles. I want you by my side. We're

brothers, you and I. All of together, protecting each other. We want the same thing.
Professor Charles Xavier: My friend. I'm sorry, but we do not.

Erik Lehnsherr: What brings you to Argentina?
1st German: The climate. I'm a pig farmer.
2nd German: Tailor, since I was a boy. My father made the best suits in Dusseldorf.
Erik Lehnsherr: My parents came from Dusseldorf.
1st German: What was their name?
Erik

Lehnsherr: They didn't have a name. It was taken from them, by pig farmers and tailors.

[last lines]
Erik Lehnsherr: I know we've had our differences.
Emma Frost: Where's your telepath friend?
Erik Lehnsherr: Gone. Left a bit of a gap in my life, if I'm to be honest. I was rather hoping you would fill it. Join us.
Emma Frost: Erik, I believe.
Erik Lehnsherr: I

prefer Magneto.

Raven Darkholme: [in her mutant form naked] You know sometimes I wonder what my life would've been like if you haven't found me here that night.
Professor Charles Xavier: Sorry what, you...
[Charles looks up from the fridge and saw her]
Professor Charles Xavier: Yaah! God's sake Raven. Where are your clothes? Pu... put... put

some clothes on.
[tries not to look at her directly]
Raven Darkholme: That's not what you said when you first saw me. But I guess pets are always cuter when they are little, right?
Professor Charles Xavier: Raven, I don't know what's gotten into you lately. I swear you've been in a good mood. Hank, he tells me that he has found the answer to

your cosmetic
[slight pause]
Professor Charles Xavier: problem. You gonna tell me what's the matter or I have to read your mind.
Raven Darkholme: You promised me you would never do that.
Professor Charles Xavier: Until recently, I never had to use my powers to know what you were thinking Raven.
Raven

Darkholme: You know Charles, I use to think it's gonna be you and me against the world. But no matter how BAD the world gets, you don't wanna be against it do you? You want to be part of it.
[Raven stands up and leaves angrily]

Professor Charles Xavier: Heterochromia was in reference to your eyes which I have to say are stunning. One green, one blue. It's a mutation. It's a very groovy mutation. I've got news for you, Amy. You are a mutant.
Co-Ed: First you proposition a girl, then you call her deformed. How is that seduction technique working for you?
Professor

Charles Xavier: I'll tell you in the morning. No, seriously, you mustn't knock it. Mutation took us from single-celled organisms to being the dominant form of reproductive life on this planet. Infinite forms of variation with each generation, all through mutation.
Co-Ed: Then let's reclaim that word. Mutant and proud.

Raven Darkholme: [In mutant form] Would you date me?
Professor Charles Xavier: [Looking down and concentrating on writing] Of course I would. Any young man would be lucky to have you. You are stunning.
Raven Darkholme: Looking like this?
Professor Charles Xavier: Like... What?
[Looks up]

Professor Charles Xavier: Blue?
[Thinks about the question]
Professor Charles Xavier: You are my oldest friend.
Raven Darkholme: I am your only friend.
Professor Charles Xavier: [laughs] Thank you for that.
Raven Darkholme: Well?
Professor Charles Xavier:

I am incapable of thinking of you that way. I feel responsible for you. Anything else would just feel wrong.
Raven Darkholme: But what if you didn't know me?
Professor Charles Xavier: Unfortunately, I do know you. God, I don't know what's gotten into you lately. You're awfully concerned with your looks.

Erik Lehnsherr: [Shaw's mind is frozen by Charles] If you're in there, I'd like you to know that I agree with every word you said. We are the future. But, unfortunately, you killed my mother. This is what we're gonna do.
[holds up the coin]
Professor Charles Xavier: No! Please, Erik, no!
Erik Lehnsherr: I am going to count to

three and I'm going to move the coin. One.
[moves the coin at Shaw's head]
Professor Charles Xavier: Please, Erik!
Erik Lehnsherr: Two. Three.
[puts the coin through Shaw's head, Charles screams]

[first lines]
Charles Xavier: Mother. What are you... I thought you were a burglar.
Mrs. Xavier: I didn't mean to scare you, darling. I was just getting a snack. Go back to bed. What's the matter? Go on, back to bed.I, I'll make you a hot chocolate.
Charles Xavier: Who are you? And what have you done with my mother?

Charles Xavier: [telepathically in her mind] My mother has never set foot in this kitchen in her life. And she certainly never made me a hot chocolate, unless you count ordering the maid to do it.
[Mrs Xavier nervously changes into a scared blue-skinned girl]
Young Raven: You're not... scared of me?
Charles Xavier: I always

knew I couldn't be the only one in the world. The only one who was different. And here you are. Charles Xavier.
[takes her hand]
Young Raven: [hesitant] Raven.
Charles Xavier: You're hungry and alone. Take whatever you want. We've got lots of food. You don't have to steal. In fact, you never have to steal again.

Erik Lehnsherr: You never looked better, man.
[pats Hank on the shoulder, Hank grabs Erik by the throat]
Professor Charles Xavier: Hank!
Hank McCoy: Don't mock me!
Professor Charles Xavier: Hank, put him down immediately, please. Hank! Hank!
[Hank lets him go]
Erik

Lehnsherr: I wasn't.