Selina Kyle (New Earth)/Quotes

Don't be a baby. You'll live, which is more than I can say for anyone else who trusted me tonight.

--Selina Kyle (New Earth)

I might be a lot of things, but I'm not a killer.

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A father's love can be a terrible thing… Now he would be with her forever…

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He looks like he's let himself go, like he's had some tough times.

--Selina Kyle (New Earth)

Listen, Scream Queen, I steal. I don't kill! There's no glamour in it.

--Selina Kyle (New Earth)

My world is all just shades of grey, Batman. That's why you'll never really understand me. It's about good people being forced into bad situations. That's my territory... in between right and wrong. Which is a place you can never go. And we both know it.

--Selina Kyle (New Earth)

Hasaragua. Armpit of the western hemisphere.

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I like weapons that only the skilled can control... Guns are for jerks and cowards.

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This is one girl who isn't used to being stood up on Christmas Eve.

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What am I to you? An ally? Competition? Some stupid damsel in distress? I know there's something about me you want. I can tell. You go all rigid when I'm around. Let's do it. Right now. Take off the masks. No secrets.

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I'm a hell of a long distance from any kind of altruist -- but as far as I know, I haven't resigned from the human race.

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With a real partner the first time something goes wrong, you'll probably blame yourself.

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You were blind...but not to what you think.

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"Life bites, but so does D.E.O. Security"

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Harassment... No. Sexual... Why, of course.

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I...I have reason to believe that you are my mother and Carmine Falcone is my father.

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Human or not, living or undead - we girls have to stick together!

--Selina Kyle (New Earth)

Don't kick the cat again, Stan. Ever.

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You're just another cop, aren't you -- smarter, cooler, more seductive -- but a cop just the same... And I don't do cops. First round to me, lover.

--Selina Kyle (New Earth)

So you want to impress me or hire me or use me in some way. You've got something you want stolen, and I'm the girl for the job.

--Selina Kyle (New Earth)

So you want me to steal a big stone wheel that probably weighs as much as this ship? I'm not into heavy lifting.

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I don't get it. Why's everybody killing themselves to get this wheel?

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Listen to that big cat howl. Almost like it was--in the room with--us?

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Someone one said, "all cats are grey in the dark." It's time I became something more...something different. Something like...dark royalty.

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Unlike the fly-by-night-bat--a cat tends to bring things to people she likes.'

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No. Don't scream. Survive.

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We are not in control. Every now and then life likes to reiterate that little point. Some people find such reminders disconcerting. They spend their lives in breathless pursuit of meaningless goals, hoping to forget everything they know about their own mortality. Some people anchor themselves to something larger. Religion, Art, Justice. Anything they deem significant in a life that's not. We are not in control. If we were, surely we'd know better than to care about anything.

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If I'm a thief, why am I spending so much time rescuing people lately?

--Selina Kyle (New Earth)

We have received reliable information that the criminal known as Catwoman intends to steal the discs.

--Selina Kyle (New Earth)

Money itself is valueless. It simply represents the ability to obtain that which is valuable--food, housing, gold, diamonds and so on.

--Selina Kyle (New Earth)

Come and chase me, Batman.

--Selina Kyle (New Earth)

That's a little inconsistent, you say, with my image as a bad girl. The kindness doesn't mesh with the cruelty. How can I be nasty and nice? You just can't figure me out? Hey, what did you expect? I'm a cat.

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Reports of my death... yada yada yada...

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Black Mask isn't exactly the Riddler, is he? I know he's gunning for me. This thing has been brewing for years, in one way or another.

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This...this is what I missed...the rush of adrenaline...the burst of energy...

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People in Gotham, they've seen a lot of weird stuff. They see lunatics in costumes running around every day. Most of them don't pay much attention.

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I don't get you people. You call yourself the "Justice" Society, but you care more about the law than justice.

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You should understand, Holly. More than anyone else. Sometimes you have to take a life... to save a life.

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I looked up to see who saved us, and I could barely believe my eyes. It was Catwoman.

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Just when did you install the car seat?

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Face it, Bruce... the world you and I live in? It's not a safe place for kids.

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You again? What are you? My conscience? The ghost of Christmas Past?

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And the really crazy thing, the thing that hasn't changed despite some all-powerful unknown dropping a bell ar on the entire city... It's still about the haves and the have-nots.

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Turns out that when the world goes crazy, I get all motherly with a side of vigilante.

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Next time, I'll steal your heart!

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Look, forgive me if I don't have a lot of faith in cops. They're just usually trying to shoot me.

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You know, the three of us have been living on the edge way too long. When we're not running from the police, we're fending off some costumed whack-job. Gotham is worse than ever. That gives us a choice -- we can get out, or band together.

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Just Pam embarking on another spree of entitlement and shattered hearts.

--Selina Kyle (New Earth)

I didn't lie to you. I physically couldn't tell you!

--Selina Kyle (New Earth)

Has pretending to be righteous made you as stupid as you are evil?

--Selina Kyle (New Earth)

Hey, Dirtface! You got blood on Mr. J! Come down here, beg foregiveness and lick it off!

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I've licked blood before... I like it.

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I don't care what the other girls say. You're fun.

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Isn't that how it always is? There's the man you want, and the man you can have, but they're never the same person.

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Like the view? It's about the only thing you're going to catch tonight.

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We've done this dance for a long time. Too long. Aren't you at all curious?

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Ivy took control of my mind. She made me do things I may have been prone to, but that's my decision. No one gets to violate me like that. Understood?

--Selina Kyle (New Earth)

Movie people are always saying that their industry is almost a hundred years old. So why is it still in puberty?

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Just goes to show there's more honest ways of making a dishonest living. But I like my style the best.

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And here I thought you were out of my life forever.

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I'd love to dance with you till my girlish heart positively melts--but I have business with your employer.

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I hate weaklings!

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Little birds should stay away from big bad kittycats.

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I don't know what creeps me out more. A big murderous gorilla on my tail. Or a big murderous gorilla that talks.

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I'm tolerating you because Cavanaugh wants you here and he's paying me ten mill to put up with you. Don't tempt me to take the loss.

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You've got powers, I've got nothing. You can handle yourself while I make good my getaway, J'onn. You can-- right?

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On the books, Catwoman's a bad guy. But then, according to a lot of conservatives... so are the members of the "Friends of the Earth Nature Magic Alliance"...

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Batman recently changed his costume and his style. But there's something more. He's not my dear old enemy at all. Because the man in the armor is an undersexed, sanctimonious dolt...who just threw me to the law for something I didn't even do.

--Selina Kyle (New Earth)

A girl's entitled to a little fun once in a while, isn't she?

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Maybe you did beat Bane...maybe you are tough...but I'm betting you've yet to face someone with smarts...finesse...and...technique.

--Selina Kyle (New Earth)

Crime needs its beauty sleep, not a few short cat naps.

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Oh, my Paws and Whiskers!

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Just what the hell are you supposed to be?

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I didn't take to crime so someone else could steal my loot and then toss me a cut like I was some dreary little salaried office worker! Bane runs this city like a king, but he doesn't run me!

--Selina Kyle (New Earth)

I had eleven pairs of shoes to pack. You can't put eleven pairs of shoes in a carry-on Eddie.

--Selina Kyle (New Earth)

Rabbiting? I've never rabbited in my life! I've pussy-footed. I've cat-scratched. I've even kittycornered. But I don't rabbit!

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I hate water!

--Selina Kyle (New Earth)

Ted, do you have any friends who aren't super heroes?

--Selina Kyle (New Earth)

What a night. I've still got my bank accounts, and all my I.D.... But my home, and everything in it, is totally gone. And I was blamed. You try to do something nice...

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I'm no saint... but sometimes you have to make a stand.

--Selina Kyle (New Earth)

Why am I here? On a Caribbean island, thousands of miles from home, in the garden of their supreme ruler... with what seems like every cop and soldier in the place pointing his weapon at me.

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I don't say religion is all good, or that worship of any kind is right for everyone. But people should be able to worship--or indulge their lack of belief--without fear.

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You have to remember that men are a lot like cats. When one of them offers you a dead rodent, it's the most valuable gift he can think of.

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This time I do it right. They may suspect me but they'll never see me. They may chase me but they'll never catch me. Never, never, ever catch me.

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They walk in her blood to take her last ten dollars, because they think she's not a person. But they're wrong... She was. They all were... And I will speak for them. Because no else will.

--Selina Kyle (New Earth)

Hey, they think you're "Freeze"!

--Selina Kyle (New Earth)

I'm warning you... don't back me into a corner!

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Batman can't possibly start up his own crew of super-crooks without me in it!

--Selina Kyle (New Earth)

Sorta goes against my nature, breaking into prison.

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Oh, Batman! I didn't know you were...in transition.

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Okay, so I had the jones in my bones so bad I mighta gotten a little blind.

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