X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

Michael Fassbender: Erik Lehnsherr, Magneto

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• Charles Xavier : The world's already begun rebuilding its arsenals.

  Erik Lensherr : It's human nature, Charles.

  Charles Xavier : I still have hope.

  Erik Lensherr : [wry laugh]  Oh, yes. Hope.

  Charles Xavier : I was right about Raven. I was even right about you.

  Erik Lensherr : What about the rest of the world? Doesn't it ever wake you up in the middle of the night? The feeling that one day they'll come for you, and your children?

  Charles Xavier : It does indeed.

  Erik Lensherr : What do you do when you wake up to that?

  Charles Xavier : I feel a great swell of pity for the poor soul that comes to my school looking for trouble.

• Erik Lensherr : [sees Apocalypse for the first time]  Who the fuck are you?

• [after brutally dispatching a group of humans who slew his wife and child] 

  Erik Lensherr : [screaming skywards]  IS THIS WHAT YOU WANT FROM ME? IS THIS WHO I AM? Is this who I am?

  [breaks down in tears] 

• Mystique : [to Magneto]  I know you think you've lost everything, but you haven't. You have me, you have Charles... you have more family than you know. You never had the chance to save your family before, but you do now. That's what I've come here to tell you.

  Magneto : [to Quicksilver]  And you?

  Peter Maximoff : I'm your... I'm here for my family, too.

  Mystique : I'm gonna go fight for what I have left. Are you?

• Charles Xavier : You sure I can't convince you to stay?

  Erik Lensherr : You're psychic, Charles. You can convince me to do anything.

  Charles Xavier : Goodbye, old friend.

  Erik Lensherr : Good luck, Professor.

• Erik Lensherr : Who are you?

  Apocalypse : Elohim, Pushan, Ra - I've been called many names over many lifetimes. I am born of death. I was there to spark and fan the flame of man's awakening, to spin the wheel of civilization. And when the forest would grow rank and needed clearing for new growth, I was there to set it ablaze.

• Charles Xavier : I told you from the moment I met you, there is more to you, Erik. There is good in you, too.

  Erik Lensherr : Whatever it is you think you saw in me, Charles, I buried it with my family.

• Apocalypse : You betray me?

  Magneto : No. I betrayed them.

  [attacks Apocalypse] 

• Charles Xavier : Think of your wife, think of your daughter. What would they have wanted?

  Magneto : They would have wanted to live.

• Magneto : I tried your way, Charles. I tried to be like them, live like them. But it always ends the same way. They took everything away from me. Now, we'll take everything from them.

• Erik Lensherr : Stay back. Whoever you are, don't try to stop me from killing these men.

  [Apocalypse makes them vanish in cemented ground] 

  Apocalypse : I'm not here for them. I'm here for you.

  [enters energy field] 

  Apocalypse : Come and see.

• Magneto : You think because you can see into my head you know how it feels? You're looking in the wrong place, Charles.

• Erik Lensherr : [addressing his coworkers]  Some of you spoke to the police about what you believe you witnessed here yesterday. You wanna know my powers, know who I am, see what I can do. I'll show you. Think of the person you love most in your life. Your wife, mother, daughter... Now that person will know what it is to lose someone they love, and live with that pain. Forever.

  Polish Worker : [in Polish]  Henryk, please. Don't do this.

  Erik Lensherr : My name isn't Henryk. My name is Magneto.

• [Erik sings a lullaby to Nina] 

  Nina : Who taught you that song?

  Erik Lensherr : My parents.

  Nina : What happened to them?

  Erik Lensherr : They were taken from me.

  Nina : Will someone take you from me?

  Erik Lensherr : The people you love never leave you. They stay with you, in your heart.

• Erik Lensherr : Where were you when my father and mother were slaughtered in this place?

  Apocalypse : Asleep. Trapped in darkness. I was not there for you, my son, but I am here now. You don't know your own strength but I do. Reach down. Feel the metal in the ground. Reach. As deep as you can. You'll find you have the power to move the very Earth itself.

• Erik Lensherr : [to Magda]  I told you who I was the first night I met you. We have to go, now!

• Charles Xavier : You're blocking me. How?

  Apocalypse : I can shield their minds from your power. It's one of the many gifts I've acquired throughout the millenia. But to see inside a mind... to control it... that's your gift. You saw it, didn't you? The glory of what's to come.

  Charles Xavier : You're going to take part in all this killing and destruction?

  Erik Lensherr : It's all I've ever known.

  Charles Xavier : No, it isn't. You've just forgotten.

  Erik Lensherr : No, Charles, I remember. Your way doesn't work.

  Apocalypse : I've shown him a better way. A better world.

  Charles Xavier : No, you've just tapped into his rage and pain. That's all you've done.

• Apocalypse : [bringing Erik to Auschwitz]  This is where your power was born. And this is where your people were slaughtered.

  Erik Lensherr : [remembering the separation from his parents]  You shouldn't have brought me here.

  Apocalypse : Why? Are you afraid to be here? You can't escape it, Erik.

• Magda : You did a good thing. You saved that man.

  Erik Lensherr : That's not the point. If I'm exposed, we're all exposed. We have to go.

  Magda : This is our home. This is our daughter's home.

  Erik Lensherr : We are her home. I told you who I was, the first night I met you. I trusted you then. I need you to trust me now. We can't stay here anymore.

  Magda : [kissing]  I'll get Nina.

• Lead Polish Inspector : [conversing in Polish]  Some guys at the factory said they saw something today. Something that didn't add up.

  Erik Lensherr : Put your weapons away.

  Lead Polish Inspector : You've been a good citizen, Henryk. A good neighbor. A good worker. I want to believe that's who you are.

  Magda : It is.

  Lead Polish Inspector : But nobody in this town really knows you.

  Erik Lensherr : Yes, you do. I am Henryk Gurzsky. Jakob, I've had dinner in your home.

  Jakob : And you were lying the whole time. I brought a killer into my house.

  Lead Polish Inspector : [showing a newspaper article]  Is this you? Are you the one they call Magneto?

  Erik Lensherr : [sharing a look of understanding with Magda]  Take me in. Please... just let my daughter go.