Captain America: The First Avenger Quotes

Peggy Carter: Wait! [she kisses Steve]
Peggy Carter: Go get him. [surprised by the kiss, Steve looks at Colonel Phillips]
Col. Chester Phillips: I'm not kissing you.

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Abraham Erskine: Do you want to kill Nazis?
Steve Rogers: Is this a test?
Abraham Erskine: Yes.
Steve Rogers: I don't want to kill anyone. I don't like bullies; I don't care where they're from.

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Abraham Erskine: Whatever happens tomorrow you must promise me one thing. That you will stay who you are. Not a perfect soldier, but a good man.

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Steve Rogers: [showing his shield to Peggy]What do you think? [Peggy unloads her gun into the shield]
Peggy Carter: [sweetly]Yes. I think it works.

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[Steve finds Bucky strapped to a table in one of Schmidt's testing labs and quickly releases him from it]Steve Rogers: It's me. It's Steve.
James 'Bucky' Barnes: [groggily]Steve?
Steve Rogers: Come on.
James 'Bucky' Barnes: Steve.
Steve Rogers: I thought you were dead.
James 'Bucky' Barnes: [aware of Steve's new size]I thought you were smaller.

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Steve Rogers: There's not gonna be a safe landing, but I can try and force it down.
Peggy Carter: I'll-I'll get Howard on the line. He'll know what to do.
Steve Rogers: There's not enough time. This thing's moving too fast and it's heading for New York. I gotta put her in the water.
Peggy Carter: Please don't do this. W-we have time. We can work it out.
Steve Rogers: Right now I'm in the middle of nowhere. If I wait any longer a lot of people are gonna die. Peggy, this is my choice.
Steve Rogers: [turns the plane toward earth]Peggy...
Peggy Carter: I'm here.
Steve Rogers: I'm gonna need a rain check on that dance.
Peggy Carter: All right. A week next Saturday at The Stork Club.
Steve Rogers: You've got it.
Peggy Carter: Eight o'clock on the dot. Don't you dare be late. Understood?
Steve Rogers: You know, I still don't know how to dance.
Peggy Carter: I'll show you how. Just be there.
Steve Rogers: We'll have the band play something slow. [the ship Cap is piloting is about to crash onto an icy land in the Arctic]
Steve Rogers: I'd hate to step on your... [the radio goes to static]
Peggy Carter: Steve? Steve? [Colonel Phillips is nearby as a tear drops down Peggy's face]
Peggy Carter: Steve? [Colonel Phillips walks off. Peggy is alone, silently sobbing]

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Steve Rogers: Can I ask a question?
Abraham Erskine: Just one?
Steve Rogers: Why me?
Abraham Erskine: I suppose that's the only question that matters.
Abraham Erskine: [Displaying a wine bottle]This is from Augsburg, my city. So many people forget that the first country the Nazis invaded was their own. You know, after the last war, they... My people struggled. They... they felt weak... they felt small. Then Hitler comes along with the marching, and the big show, and the flags, and the, and the... and he... he hears of me, and my work, and he finds me, and he says You. He says You will make us strong. Well, I am not interested. So he sends the head of Hydra, his research division, a brilliant scientist by the name of Johann Schmidt. Now Schmidt is a member of the inner circle and he is ambitious. He and Hitler share a passion for occult power and Teutonic myth. Hitler uses his fantasies to inspire his followers, but for Schmidt, it is not fantasy. For him, it is real. He has become convinced that there is a great power hidden in the earth, left here by the gods, waiting to be seized by a superior man. So when he hears about my formula and what it can do, he cannot resist. Schmidt must become that superior man.
Steve Rogers: Did it make him stronger?
Abraham Erskine: Yeah, but... there were other... effects. The serum was not ready. But more important, the man. The serum amplifies everything that is inside, so good becomes great; bad becomes worse. This is why you were chosen. Because the strong man who has known power all his life, may lose respect for that power, but a weak man knows the value of strength, and knows... compassion.
Steve Rogers: Thanks. I think.
Abraham Erskine: [Gesturing toward the wine]Get it, get it. Whatever happens tomorrow, you must promise me one thing. That you will stay who you are, not a perfect soldier, but a good man.

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Johann Schmidt: No matter what lies Erskine told you, you see, I was his greatest success! [Schmidt removes his face mask and reveals his face as the Red Skull to Steve and Bucky]
James 'Bucky' Barnes: [to Steve]You don't have one of those, do you?

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Peggy Carter: How do you feel?
Steve Rogers: Taller.

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Red Skull: Arrogance may not be a uniquely American trait, but I must say, you do it better than anyone. But there are limits to what even you can do, Captain, or did Erskine tell you otherwise?
Steve Rogers: He told me you were insane.
Red Skull: Ah. He resented my genius and tried to deny me what was rightfully mine, but he gave you everything. So, what made you so special?
Steve Rogers: Nothing. I'm just a kid from Brooklyn.

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James 'Bucky' Barnes: [discovering Steve is taller]What happened to you?
Steve Rogers: I joined the Army.

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[talking about Steve taking the Super-Soldier formula]James 'Bucky' Barnes: Did it hurt?
Steve Rogers: A little.
James 'Bucky' Barnes: Is this permanent?
Steve Rogers: So far.

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Steve Rogers: I know this neighborhood. I got beat up in that alley. And that parking lot. And behind that diner.

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Timothy 'Dum Dum' Dugan: Wait. You know what you're doing?
Steve Rogers: Yeah. I knocked out Adolf Hitler over 200 times.

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Peggy Carter: You can't give me orders!
Steve Rogers: The hell I can't! I'm a Captain! [smiles]

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James 'Bucky' Barnes: [looking down a long and steep zip line they'll soon be traveling]Remember when I made you ride the Cyclone on Coney Island?
Steve Rogers: Yeah, and I threw up?
James 'Bucky' Barnes: This isn't payback, is it?
Steve Rogers: [grinning]Now why would I do that?

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Steve Rogers: [after being injected in the arm]That wasn't so bad.
Abraham Erskine: That was penicillin.

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Peggy Carter: You're late. [hold up broken transmitter]
Steve Rogers: I couldn't call my ride.

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Howard Stark: Seems harmless enough. Hard to see what all the fuss is about. [gets thrown back]
Howard Stark: Write that down.

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HYDRA Soldier: Cut off one head, two more shall...
Col. Chester Phillips: [blows him away]Let's go find two more!

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[last lines][Steve Rogers finds himself in New York]Nick Fury: At ease, soldier! Look, I'm sorry about that little show back there, but we thought it best to break it to you slowly.
Steve Rogers: Break what?
Nick Fury: You've been asleep, Cap. For almost 70 years. [Steve is silent with shock]
Nick Fury: You gonna be okay?
Steve Rogers: Yeah. Yeah, I just... I had a date.

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Howard Stark: The moment you think you know what's going on in a woman's head is the moment your goose is well and truly cooked .

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[Steve starts yelling]Peggy Carter: Shut it down!
Abraham Erskine: Kill the reactor, Mr. Stark! Turn it off! Kill it! Kill the reactor!
Steve Rogers: [from within the chamber]No! Don't! I can do this!

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[Captain America goes to the edge of the dock to rescue the boy thrown in the water by the spy]Boy at Dock: Go get him! I can swim.

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Abraham Erskine: [knocking on the capsule Steve is locked in for the procedure to change him]Steven, can you hear me?
Steve Rogers: It's probably too late to go to the bathroom, right?

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Col. Chester Phillips: Sit down. [Colonel Phillips puts down a tray of food at a table]
Dr. Arnim Zola: What is this?
Col. Chester Phillips: Steak.
Dr. Arnim Zola: What is in it?
Col. Chester Phillips: Cow.

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Howard Stark: Fondue is just cheese and bread, my friend.

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Steve Rogers: Dr. Erskine said that the serum wouldn't just effect my muscles, it would effect my cells. Create a protective system of regeneration and healing. Which means, um, I can't get drunk. Did you know that?
Peggy Carter: Your metabolism burns four times faster than the average person. He thought it could be one of the side effects.

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Steve Rogers: You ready to follow Captain America into the jaws of death?
James 'Bucky' Barnes: Hell, no! The little guy from Brooklyn who was too dumb not to run away from a fight. I'm following him. [Smiles]
James 'Bucky' Barnes: But you're keeping the outfit, right?
Steve Rogers: You know what? It's kinda grown on me.

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Col. Chester Phillips: [looking over the men]You're not REALLY thinking about picking Rogers, are you?
Abraham Erskine: I wasn't just THINKING about it. He is a clear choice.
Col. Chester Phillips: When you brought a ninety-pound asthmatic onto my army base, I let it slide. I thought What the hell, maybe he'd be useful to you like a gerbil. Never thought you'd pick him.
Peggy Carter: [to soldiers doing push-ups]UP!
Col. Chester Phillips: You put a needle in that kid's arm it's gonna go right through him.
Peggy Carter: [to the soldiers doing jumping jacks]Come on, girls!
Col. Chester Phillips: [looking at Steve's best effort but belabored execution]Look at that. He's makin' me cry.
Abraham Erskine: I am looking for qualities beyond the physical.
Col. Chester Phillips: Do you know how long it took to set up this project? Of all the groveling I had to do in front of Senator What's-his-name's committee?
Abraham Erskine: Yes, I'm well aware of your efforts.
Col. Chester Phillips: Then throw me a bone. Hodge passed every test we gave him. He's big, he's fast, he obeys orders - he's a soldier.
Abraham Erskine: He's a bully.
Col. Chester Phillips: You don't win wars with niceness, doctor. You win wars with guts. [the Colonel pulls the pin of a grenade and throws it among the recruits]
Col. Chester Phillips: GRENADE!

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