Tobey Maguire credited as playing...
Spider-Man • Peter Parker
- [last lines]
- Peter Parker: [voiceover] Whatever life holds in store for me, I will never forget these words: "With great power comes great responsibility." This is my gift, my curse. Who am I? I'm Spider-Man.
- Mary Jane: Has he mentioned me?
- Peter Parker: Yeah.
- Mary Jane: What'd he say?
- Peter Parker: Uh... I said... he asked me what I thought about you.
- Mary Jane: And what did you say?
- Peter Parker: I said... uh... Spider-Man, I said uh... The great thing about MJ is... when you look in her eyes and she's looking back in yours... everything... feels... not quite normal. Because you feel stronger and weaker at the same time. You feel excited and at the same time, terrified. The truth is... you don't know what you feel except you know what kind of man you want to be. It's as if you've reached the unreachable and you weren't ready for it."
- Mary Jane: You said that?
- Peter Parker: Well, something like that.
- Peter Parker: [Harry walks in while they're holding hands] Hi...
- [trying to learn how to shoot a web]
- Spider-Man: Go web! Fly! Up, up, and away web! Shazaam! Go! Go! Go web go! Tally ho.
- Wrestling Promoter: [after Peter lets an armed man escape with a bag full of cash] You coulda taken that guy apart! Now he's gonna get away with *my* money!
- Peter Parker: I missed the part where that's my problem.
- Green Goblin: [lands in front of Spider-Man on a rooftop] Wake up, little spider, wake up. No, you're not dead... yet. Just paralysed - temporarily. You're an amazing creature, Spider-Man. You and I are not so different.
- Spider-Man: I'm not like you. You're a murderer.
- Green Goblin: Well... to each his own. I chose my path, you chose the way of the hero. And they found you amusing for a while, the people of this city. But the one thing they love more than a hero... is to see a hero fail, fall, die trying. In spite of everything you've done for them, eventually they will hate you. Why bother?
- Spider-Man: Because it's right.
- Green Goblin: [slaps Spider-Man on the head] Here's the real truth: there are eight million people in this city. And those teeming masses exist for the sole purpose of lifting the few exceptional people onto their shoulders. You, me? We're exceptional.
- [leans in and grabs Spider-Man's neck]
- Green Goblin: I could squash you like a bug right now, but I'm offering you a choice. Join me! Imagine what we could accomplish together... what we could create. Or we could destroy! Cause the deaths of countless innocents in selfish battle again and again and again until we're both dead! Is that what you want?
- [jumps on the glider]
- Green Goblin: Think about it, hero!
- [from trailer]
- Peter Parker: Not everyone is meant to make a difference. But for me, the choice to lead an ordinary life is no longer an option.
- Ring Announcer: [on the microphone, announcing to the audience as he walks backwards up the ramp to where Peter is standing behind the curtain] Will the next victim please enter the arena at this time! If he can withstand just three minutes in the cage with "Bonesaw" McGraw, the sum of three-thousand dollars will be paid to...
- [gets off the microphone and asks Peter]
- Ring Announcer: What's your name, kid?
- Peter Parker: The Human Spider.
- Ring Announcer: The Human Spider? That's it? That's the best you've got?
- Peter Parker: Yeah.
- Ring Announcer: Oh, that sucks.
- [gets back on the microphone]
- Ring Announcer: The sum of three-thousand dollars will be paid to... the terrifying... the deadly... the amazing Spider-Man!
- [the audience cheers]
- Green Goblin: [the Green Goblin has just pummeled Spider-Man] Misery, misery, misery - that's what you've chosen. I offered you friendship, and you spat in my face.
- [Green Goblin continues to beat Spider-Man]
- Green Goblin: You've spun your last web, Spider-Man. Had you not been so selfish, your little girlfriend's death would've been quick and painless, but now that you've really pissed me off, I'm gonna finish her nice... and slow. MJ and I... we're gonna have a hell of a time!
- [Green Goblin lunges forward, but Spider-Man blocks and pushes him into a brick wall]
- Norman Osborn: [speaking in his normal voice] Peter, stop! Stop! It's me!
- [Green Goblin takes off his mask, revealing Norman Osborn]
- Spider-Man: Mr. Osborn...
- Norman Osborn: Oh, Peter, thank God for you...
- Spider-Man: You killed those people on that balcony!
- Norman Osborn: The Goblin killed, I had nothing to do with it! Don't, don't let him take me again! I beg you, protect me!
- Spider-Man: You tried to kill Aunt May, you tried to kill Mary Jane...
- Norman Osborn: But not you. I tried to stop it, but I couldn't stop it. I would never hurt you.
- [Norman discreetly pushes a button on his suit and the glider rises]
- Norman Osborn: I knew from the beginning. If anything happened to me, it, it was you I could count on. You, Peter Parker, would save me, and so you have. Thank God for you.
- [Norman rises up]
- Norman Osborn: Give me your hand. Believe in me, as I believed in you. I've been like a father to you... be a son to me now.
- Spider-Man: I have a father. His name was Ben Parker.
- Green Goblin: Godspeed, Spider-Man!
- [warned by spider-sense, Spider-Man back-flips over the oncoming glider]
- Norman Osborn: Oh.
- [the glider impales Norman]
- Norman Osborn: Peter... don't tell Harry.
- [dies]
- Mary Jane: You're amazing.
- Spider-Man: Some people don't think so...
- Mary Jane: But you are.
- Spider-Man: Nice to have a fan...
- [first lines]
- Peter Parker: [voiceover] Who am I? You sure you want to know? The story of my life is not for the faint of heart. If somebody said it was a happy little tale... if somebody told you I was just your average ordinary guy, not a care in the world... somebody lied. But let me assure you: This, like any story worth telling, is all about a girl. That girl. The girl next door. Mary Jane Watson. The woman I've loved since before I even liked girls.
- [referring to Flash Thompson sitting next to her]
- Peter Parker: I'd like to say that's me sitting next to her.
- [referring to an overweight kid in front of them messily eating a jelly doughnut]
- Peter Parker: Aw, heck, I'd even take him.
- [he and the other kids see a nerdy Peter running along the bus, asking to stop]
- Peter Parker: That's me.
- Peter Parker: Spider-Man wasn't trying to attack the city, he was trying to save it. That's slander.
- J. Jonah Jameson: It is not. I resent that. Slander is spoken. In print, it's libel.
- Mary Jane: Wait! Who are you?
- Spider-Man: You know who I am.
- Mary Jane: I do?
- Spider-Man: Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man!
- Peter Parker: Can I do anything for you?
- Aunt May: You do too much - college, a job, all this time with me... You're not Superman, you know.
- [talking about Uncle Ben]
- Peter Parker: I can't help thinking about... the last thing I said to him. He tried to tell me something important, and I threw it in his face.
- Aunt May: You loved him. And he loved you. He never doubted the man you'd grow into; how you were meant for great things. You won't disappoint him.
- [the Goblin crashes through the Daily Bugle office]
- Green Goblin: [grabbing Jameson by the throat] Jameson you slime! Who's the photographer who takes pictures of Spider-Man?
- J. Jonah Jameson: I don't know who he is! His stuff comes in the mail!
- Green Goblin: YOU'RE LYING!
- J. Jonah Jameson: I swear!
- Green Goblin: He's the one who can take me to him!
- J. Jonah Jameson: I don't know who he is!
- Green Goblin: [preparing to punch Jameson] You are useless you...!
- Spider-Man: [appears upside-down outside the window] Settle down, tough guy.
- Green Goblin: [drops Jameson and turns around on the glider] Speak of the Devil!
- Wrestling Promoter: [after he gives Peter $100 for winning a wrestling tournament] Now get outta here.
- Peter Parker: A hundred bucks? The ad said 3000.
- Wrestling Promoter: Check it again, web head. It said three grand for three minutes, and you pinned him in two. For that, I give you 100, and you're lucky to get that.
- Peter Parker: I need that money.
- Wrestling Promoter: I missed the part where that's my problem.
- [Peter leaves with the $100 bill and a carjacker enters with an empty bag and throws it at the promoter]
- Wrestling Promoter: Hey, what the hell...?
- Carjacker: [draws his pistol] Put the money in the bag. HURRY UP!
- [hits the promoter hard with his pistol, puts all the money in the bag, and runs out]
- Wrestling Promoter: HEY! HE STOLE THE GATE!
- Wrestling Arena Guard: STOP THAT GUY!
- Wrestling Promoter: STOP HIM! HE'S GOT MY MONEY!
- [the carjacker quickly enters the elevator that Peter was about to use]
- Carjacker: [to Peter] Thanks!
- [the elevator doors close]
- Wrestling Arena Guard: What the hell's the matter with you? You let him go!
- [to the other cops]
- Wrestling Arena Guard: Cut him off from the lobby and call the cops!
- Wrestling Promoter: You could've taken that guy apart! Now he's gonna get away with *my* money!
- Peter Parker: I missed the part where that's my problem.
- Green Goblin: Spider-Man. This is why only fools are heroes - because you never know when some lunatic will come along with a sadistic choice. Let die the woman you love... or suffer the little children? Make your choice, Spider-Man, and see how a hero is rewarded!
- Spider-Man: Don't do it Goblin!
- Green Goblin: We are who we choose to be... now, *choose*!
- Uncle Ben: I don't mean to lecture and I don't mean to preach. And I know I'm not your father...
- Peter Parker: Then stop pretending to be!
