- [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.
- [singing]
- Green Goblin: The itsy bitsy spider climbed up the water spout. Down came the Goblin and took the spider out.
- 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, no you're not dead yet just paralysed. 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.
- [as New Yorkers battle the Green Goblin, who's attacking Spider-Man]
- New Yorker on Bridge: Leave Spider-Man alone! You're gonna pick on a guy trying to save a bunch of kids?
- New Yorker on Bridge: Yeah, I got something for your ass! You mess with Spidey, you mess with New York!
- New Yorker on Bridge: You mess with one of us, you mess with all of us.
- 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]
- 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...
- 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]
- [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.
- Aunt May: Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us...
- [the Green Goblin bursts through the window]
- Aunt May: [screams] DELIVER US!
- Green Goblin: [laughing maniacally] Finish it. FINISH IT!
- Aunt May: FROM EVIL!
- 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: 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.
- Bonesaw McGraw: Hey freak show! You're going nowhere. I got you for three minutes. Three minutes of PLAYTIME!
- Green Goblin: Spider-Man is all but invincible; but Parker, we can destroy him.
- Norman Osborn: I can't.
- Green Goblin: Betrayal must not be countenanced. Parker must be educated.
- Norman Osborn: What do I do?
- Green Goblin: Instruct him in the matters of loss and pain. Make him suffer, make him wish he were dead.
- Norman Osborn: Yes?
- Green Goblin: And then grant his wish.
- Norman Osborn: But how?
- Green Goblin: The cunning warrior attacks neither body nor mind.
- Norman Osborn: TELL ME HOW!
- Green Goblin: The HEART Osborn! First, we attack his heart!
- J. Jonah Jameson: [about Peter's pictures of Spider-Man] They're crap. Crap, crap, megacrap. I'll give you two hundred bucks for all of 'em.
- 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*!
- [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.
- Peter Parker: I want you to know, that I will always be there for you; I will always be there to take care of you. I promise you that. I will always be your friend.
- Mary Jane: Only a friend, Peter Parker?
- Peter Parker: That's all I have to give...
- [upon inspecting Peter Parker's bedroom]
- Norman Osborn: A bit of a slob, isn't he?
- Aunt May: All brilliant men are.
- [as Flash Thompson tries to beat up Peter Parker in school]
- Mary Jane: Help him, Harry!
- [one of Flash's buddies tries to tackle Peter from behind, Peter senses it and jumps, flipping over backward and landing on his feet]
- Harry Osborn: Which one?
- [first words]
- Green Goblin: Back to formula!
- [he hurls Doctor Strong through glass and leaps after him, baring his teeth]
- Mary Jane: [looking at spiders] Disgusting!
- Harry Osborn: Yeah, I hate the little things.
- Mary Jane: I love 'em.
- Harry Osborn: Oh yeah, me too.
- Norman Osborn: I've been like a father to you, be a son to me now.
- Peter Parker: I have a father, his name was Ben Parker.
- Mary Jane: I wanna... act. On stage.
- Peter Parker: Really? Well that's perfect. You were awesome in all the school plays.
- Mary Jane: Really?
- Peter Parker: Yeah. I cried like a baby when you played Cinderella.
- Mary Jane: Peter, that was first grade.
- Peter Parker: Well, even so...
- Cop at Fire: [at a burning building, a cop approaches Spider-Man] Hold it right here, you're under arrest! I'm taking you in!
- Young Lady at Fire: [a scream is heard in the building] There's somebody still up there!
- Spider-Man: I'm going.
- Cop at Fire: I'll be here when you get back.
- Spider-Man: Not coming back, chief.
- [Norman hears the Green Goblin cackling]
- Norman Osborn: Is somebody there?
- Green Goblin: [mocking] Somebody?
- Norman Osborn: Who are you?
- Green Goblin: Don't play the innocent with ME - you've known all along!
- Norman Osborn: Where are you?
- Green Goblin: Follow the cold shiver running down your spine...
- [Norman looks widely among his collection of tribal masks for the source of the voice]
- Green Goblin: [impatiently] I'm right HERE!
- [Norman turns and confronts his reflection in a mirror]
- Norman Osborn: I... I don't understand...
- Green Goblin: Did you think it was coincidence - so many good things happening for you, all for you, Norman?
- [he drains Norman's glass and hurls it away]
- Norman Osborn: What do you want?
- Green Goblin: To say what you won't, to do what you can't - to *remove* those in your way...
- [He holds up a newspaper, which Norman examines. The main headlines describe the murder of the Oscorp Board of Governors at the hands of the Green Goblin]
- Norman Osborn: The Board Members - you killed them!
- Green Goblin: WE killed them!
- Norman Osborn: We?
- Green Goblin: Remember? Your little "accident" in the laboratory...?
- Norman Osborn: The performance enhancers...
- Green Goblin: Bingo. Me! Your greatest creation. Bringing you what you've always wanted: power beyond your wildest dreams, and it's only the beginning. There is only one who could stop us - or, imagine if he joined us?
- [as Norman watches in terror, the Goblin bares his teeth in an utterly manic grin and laughs evilly]
- [On the morning after Peter gets bitten]
- Aunt May: Feeling better this morning? Any change?
- Peter Parker: Change? Yep. BIG change.
- Green Goblin: [hurling a pumpkin bomb at the Oscorp Board of Governors] OUT, AM I?
- [He quickly sends his glider over to Mary Jane]
- Green Goblin: Hello, my dear!
- [MJ screams]
- [in Aunt May's hospital room]
- Aunt May: Go home dear, you look awful.
- Peter Parker: And you look beautiful...
- Norman Osborn: As of today, Oscorp Industries has surpassed Quest Aerospace as the principal supplier to the United States Military. In short, ladies and gentlemen of the board: costs are down, revenues are up... and our stock has never been higher.
- Henry Balkan: Wonderful news, Norman. Wonderful. In fact, it's the reason for selling the company.
- Norman Osborn: What?
- Henry Balkan: Yes, Quest Aerospace is recapitalizing in the wake of the bombing; expanding. They made a tender offer we can't ignore.
- Norman Osborn: Why wasn't I told?
- Henry Balkan: The last thing they want is a power struggle with entrenched management.
- Maximilian Fargas: The deal is off if you come with it. The board expects your resignation in thirty days.
- Norman Osborn: Oh, you can't do this to me... I-I started this company!
- [irate]
- Norman Osborn: YOU KNOW HOW MUCH I SACRIFICED?
- [calms]
- Norman Osborn: Oh, Max, please!
- Maximilian Fargas: Norman, the board is unanimous. We're announcing the sale after the World Unity Festival. I'm sorry.
- Henry Balkan: You're out, Norman.
- Norman Osborn: [ominous] Am I?
- J. Jonah Jameson: If we can get a picture of Julia Roberts in a thong, we can certainly get a picture of this weirdo.
- Uncle Ben: Peter, look. You're changing. I know. I went through exactly the same thing at your age.
- Peter Parker: No. Not exactly.
- Flash Thompson: Think you're pretty funny, don't you, freak?
- Mary Jane: Flash, it was just an accident!
- Flash Thompson: My fist breaking your teeth, that's the accident.
- Mary Jane: C'mon, Flash, stop!
- Peter Parker: I don't want to fight you, Flash.
- Flash Thompson: I wouldn't want to fight me, neither.
- [in Aunt May's hospital room]
- Peter Parker: [relating to M.J. what he supposedly said to Spider-man] I said, um, Spider-man, I said, uh, the great thing about M.J. 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: Oh, something like that...
- Harry Osborn: [Flash and his gang are hassling Peter] Leave him alone.
- Flash's Crony: Or what?
- Flash Thompson: Or his father will fire your father!
- [they laugh]
- Flash Thompson: What's daddy gonna do, sue me?
- Teacher: What is going on? The next person who talks will fail this course, I kid you not.
- 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!
- Hoffman: Mr. Jameson they are very important clients, they can't wait.
- J. Jonah Jameson: They're about to.