Vin Diesel credited as playing...
The Iron Giant
- [as the Giant flies toward the missle]
- Hogarth Hughes: [in the Giant's mind] You are who you choose to be.
- The Iron Giant: Superman.
- The Iron Giant: [as a nuclear missile is headed for Rockwell; to himself] I fix.
- Hogarth Hughes: Giant?
- The Iron Giant: [kneels down to Hogarth] Hogarth. You stay. I go.
- [lifts Hogarth's chin with a finger and waves his other finger at him]
- The Iron Giant: No following.
- Hogarth Hughes: I love you.
- [the Giant takes off to intercept the rocket]
- Hogarth Hughes: I know you feel bad about the deer, but it's not your fault. Things die. That's part of life. It's bad to kill, but it's not bad to die.
- The Iron Giant: You die?
- Hogarth Hughes: Well, yes, someday.
- The Iron Giant: I die?
- Hogarth Hughes: I don't know. You're made of metal, but you have feelings, and you think about things, and that means you have a soul. And souls don't die.
- The Iron Giant: Soul?
- Hogarth Hughes: Mom says it's something inside of all good things, and that it goes on forever and ever.
- [Hogarth leaves. The Iron Giant lays back to look at the stars]
- The Iron Giant: Souls don't die.
- Dean McCoppin: Get back! I said get back! I mean it!
- The Iron Giant: No. Stop. Why?
- Hogarth Hughes: It was an accident. He's our friend.
- Dean McCoppin: He's a piece of hardware, Hogarth. Why did you think the army was here? He's a weapon, a big... big gun that walks.
- The Iron Giant: I... I not gun.
- Dean McCoppin: Yeah? Then what's that?
- [Points at huge hole the Giant's ray left on a bus]
- Dean McCoppin: You almost did that to Hogarth!
- The Iron Giant: No!
- [Runs away]
- Hogarth Hughes: Wait!
- [Runs after the Giant]
- Dean McCoppin: Hogarth!
- Hogarth Hughes: Come back!
- Dean McCoppin: [sees the toy gun Hogarth left on the ground] It was being defensive. He reacted to the gun.
- Hogarth Hughes: Hey, Dean! Watch this!
- Dean McCoppin: All right, we're watching.
- Hogarth Hughes: This one's for professionals only! Banzai!
- [dives into lake, starts shivering]
- Hogarth Hughes: Come on in! The water's... great.
- Dean McCoppin: No, thanks.
- Hogarth Hughes: You... weenie!
- [to the Giant]
- Hogarth Hughes: Come on in. It's really, really refreshing.
- [the Giant walks away]
- Hogarth Hughes: What? You too? You... big baby!
- The Iron Giant: [the sound of the Giant running is heard; suddenly he jumps into the water] Banzai!
- Hogarth Hughes: Can you talk? You know, words? Blah, blah, blah, like that? Can you do that, blah, blah, blah?
- The Iron Giant: [very rusty] Blah, blah, blah.
- Hogarth Hughes: Well, you get the idea, anyway.
- Hogarth Hughes: I thought you might like, you know, a bedtime story. I have some really cool ones. Mad Magazine - very funny. The Spirit - very cool. Boy's Life - eh. Oh, here. This is Superman. He's a lot like you. Crash-landed on Earth, didn't know what he was doing... but he only uses his powers for good, never for evil. Remember that.
- [Giant looks at a comic with a robot like himself on the cover]
- Hogarth Hughes: Oh, that's Atomo, the metal menace. He's not a hero, he's a villain. But you're not like him. You're a good guy, like Superman.
- The Iron Giant: Super... man.
- Hogarth Hughes: [seeing the shot deer] It's dead.
- The Iron Giant: Dead?
- [the Giant tries to pick up the deer]
- Hogarth Hughes: Don't do that!
- The Iron Giant: But... why?
- Hogarth Hughes: It's dead, understand? They shot it, with that gun.
- [the Giant looks at the gun; his eyes narrow and turn red]
- Hogarth Hughes: Hey, are you all right?
- The Iron Giant: [snaps out of it] Gun.
- Hogarth Hughes: Yes. Guns kill.
- The Iron Giant: Guns kill.
- Hogarth Hughes: [picking up a rock] See this? This is called a rock. Rock.
- The Iron Giant: [a little rusty] Rock.
- Hogarth Hughes: Good.
- The Iron Giant: [picks up a boulder] Rock?
- Hogarth Hughes: Yes!
- The Iron Giant: [picks up a tree] Rock.
- Hogarth Hughes: No, no. That is a tree. Rock... tree. Get it?
- The Iron Giant: Rock... tree.
- Hogarth Hughes: That's right!