100 Best Captain America: The First Avenger Quotes

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

- Levels at 100%.
- Good.
- We may dim half the lights in Brooklyn, but we are ready as we'll ever be.
- Erskine: Agent Carter?
- Don't you think you would be more comfortable in the booth?
- Yes, of course. Sorry.
- Good.

- For what?
- For making it clear how obviously mad you are.
- Berlin is on this map!
- Soitis.
- You will be punished for your insolence!
- You will be brought before the fiihrer himself!

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

Gabe: Who are you supposed to be?
Steve: I'm... Captain America.
[Steve walks off to free the soldiers trapped below]
James: I beg your pardon?

- Don't take it so hard.
- Maybe she's got a friend.
Howard: Emission signature is unusual.
- Alpha and beta ray neutral.
- Though I doubt
- Rogers picked up on that.
- Seems harmless enough.
- Hard to see what all the fuss is about.

Johann: 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: [to Steve] You don't have one of those, do you?

- What?
- The sanity of the plan is of no consequence.
- And why is that?
- Because he can do it!
- What's his target?
- His target is everywhere.

- Uh,
- I don't think they were all married.
- You're a hero.
- Well, that depends on the definition, really.
- The women of America, they owe you their thanks.
- And seeing as they're not here...

Peggy: How do you feel?
Steve: Taller.

Steve: [after one of Steve's "Captain America" shows] What are you doing here?
Peggy: Officially I'm not here at all. That was quite a performance.
Steve: Yeah, uh... I had to improvise a little bit. The crowds I'm used to are usually more, uh...
[Struggles to find a word]
Peggy: I understand you're America's new hope.
Steve: Bond sales take a ten percent bump in every state I visit.
Peggy: Is that Senator Brandt I hear?
Steve: At least he's got me doing this. Phillips would have had me stuck in the lab.
Peggy: And these are your only two options? A lab rat or a dancing monkey? You were meant for more than this, you know?
[Steve looks like he's about to say something, then closes his mouth]
Peggy: What?
Steve: You know for the longest time I dreamed about coming overseas and being on the front lines. Serving my country. I finally get everything I wanted, and I'm wearing tights.

- I merely developed the weapons.
- I cannot fire them.
- Finish your mission, doctor, before the American finishes his.
Manager: Sir!
- I'm sorry, herr schmidt.
- We fought to the last man.
- Evidently not.

- Increase the output by 60% and see to it our other facilities do the same.
- But these prisoners,
- I'm not sure they have the strength.
- Then use up what strength they have left, doctor.
- There are always more workers.
- Not now!

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

Steve: Sir, if you're going after Schmidt, I want in
Col. Chester Phillips: You're an experiment. You're going to Alamogordo.
Steve: The serum worked.
Col. Chester Phillips: I asked for an army and all I got was you. You are not enough.

Col. Chester Phillips: [looking over the men] You're not REALLY thinking about picking Rogers, are you?
Abraham: 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: [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: [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: 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: 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: 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!

Peggy: Tell me, did you truly like your friend? Did you respect him?
Steve: [surprised] Yes!
Peggy: Well then, stop blaming yourself! Give your friend the respect of making his own decisions!

Manager: Where is he now?
- Hydra's last base is here.
- In the alps, 500 feet below the surface.
- Morita: So what are we supposed to do?
- I mean, it's not like we can just knock on the front door.
Steve: Why not?
- That's exactly what we're going to do.

- You could have the power of the gods!
- Yet you wear a flag on your chest and think you fight a battle of nations!
- I have seen the future, captain!
- There are no flags!
- Not my future!
- What have you done?
- No!

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.

- Come on, let's go. Up.
- Sir? Are we going to the roof?
- What about me?
- Where will I sit?
- Not a scratch, doctor.
- Not a scratch.

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

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

[a body is discovered in the Arctic]
SHIELD: Base. Get me a line to the Colonel! I don't care what time it is! This one's waited long enough.

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

- I had him on the ropes.
- I know you did.
- Get down!
- Fire again!

- I took a chance with you, agent Carter.
- And now America's golden boy and a lot of other good men are dead
- 'cause you had a crush.
- It wasn't that. I had faith.
- Well, I hope that's a big comfort to you when they shut this division down.
- What the hell's going on out there?

- Lieutenant!
- What is it?
- My god.
- Base, get me a line to the colonel.
- Man on radio: [It's 3:00 A.M., sir.
- I don't care what time it is.
- This one's waited long enough.

- Are you sure this thing works?
- It's been tested more than you, pal.
- Get back here!
- We're taking you all the way in!
- As soon as I'm clear, you turn this thing around and get the hell out of here!
- You can't give me orders!
- The hell I can't! I'm a captain!

Peggy: You have no idea how to talk to a woman, do you?
Steve: I think this is the longest conversation I've had with one. Women aren't exactly lining up to dance with a guy they might step on.

- a good man.
- To the little guys.
- No, no. Wait, wait. What I am doing?
- No, you have procedure tomorrow.
- No fluids.
- All right. We'll drink it after.
- No, I don't have procedure tomorrow.
- Drink it after? I drink it now.

- Twenty percent.
- Forty.
- Sixty.
- Stabilizing at 70%.
- I have not come all this way for safety, doctor.

Red: You could have the power of the gods! Yet you wear a flag on your chest and think you fight a battle of nations! I have seen the future, Captain! There are no flags!
Captain: Not my future!

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

- On your left!
- Up top!
- No, no! What are you doing?
- Our forces are outmatched.
- Keep moving! Grab those grenades!

- I can offer you a chance.
- Only a chance.
- I'll take it.
- Good.
- So where is the little guy from? Actually?
- Brooklyn.
- Congratulations, soldier.

Senator: Geez! Somebody get THAT kid a SANDWICH.

Manager: At ease, soldier!
- Look, I'm sorry about that little show back there, but we thought it best to break it to you slowly.
- Break what?
- You've been asleep, cap.
- For almost 70 years.

Boy: Let me go!
- Woman: Let go of my son!
- Woman: No! Don't hurt him!
- Wait, don't! Don't!
- No! Don't!
- Go get him! I can swim!

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

Timothy: [looks at Jim Morita while asking Captain America] What, are we taking everybody?
Jim: I'm from Fresno, Ace.

General: I thought he'd be taller.

- I think they only know the one song, but, um,
- I'll see what I can do.
- Man 3: You do that, sweetheart.
- Nice boots, tinker bell!
- Come on, guys, we're all on the same team here.
- Hey, captain! Sign this!

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

- Exactly.
- Give the order to open fire.
- Fool!
- You cannot control the power you hold.
- You will burn!
- I already have.

- How come it's not standard issue?
- That's the rarest metal on earth.
- What you're holding there, that's all we've got.
- You quite finished, Mr. stark?
- I'm sure the captain has some unfinished business.
- What do you think?

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

- Man 3: You think this is about appearances?
- Your hydra division has failed to deliver so much as a rifle in over a year.
- And we had learned through local intelligence you had mounted a full-scale incursion into Norway.
- The fuhrer feels... how does he put it?
- "The red skull has been indulged long enough!"

- All right.
- The tree line is northwest,
- 80 yards past the gate.
- Get out fast and give 'em hell.
- I'll meet you guys in the clearing with anybody else I find.
- Wait. You know what you're doing?
- Yeah. I've knocked out Adolf Hitler over 200 times.

- Get in!
- Keep it steady! Wait!
- Go get him.
- I'm not kissing you!

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

Steve: Where are we going?
James: The future.

- They've come for it!
- They have before.
- Not like this.
- Let them come.
- They'll never find it.

Red: 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: He told me you were insane.
Red: 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: Nothing. I'm just a kid from Brooklyn.

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

- Open it!
- Quickly, before he gets...

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

- How can I?
- You're taking all the stupid with you.
- You're a punk. Jerk.
- Be careful.
- Don't win the war till I get there!
- Bucky: Come on, girls.
- They're playing our song.

- what if I told you that in just a few short years, your automobile won't even have fo touch the ground at all?
- Yes. Thanks, Mandy.
- With stark gravitic reversion technology you'll be able to do just that.
- Holy cow.

- Fellas.
- Ah!

Dr. Arnim Zola: I don't eat meat.
Col. Chester Phillips: Why not?
Dr. Arnim Zola: It disagrees with me.
Col. Chester Phillips: How about cyanide? Does that give you the rumbly tummy, too?

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

[last lines]
[Steve Rogers finds himself in New York]
Nick: 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: Break what?
Nick: You've been asleep, Cap. For almost 70 years.
[Steve is silent with shock]
Nick: You gonna be okay?
Steve: Yeah. Yeah, I just... I had a date.

- This way.
- What are we doing here?
- Follow me.
- Wonderful weather this morning, isn't it?
- Yes, but I always carry an umbrella.

- No matter what lies erskine told you, you see, I was his greatest success!

- I thought you were smaller.
- Come on.
- What happened to you?
- I joined the army.
- Did it hurt? =a little.
- Is this permanent?
- So far.

Steve: What about the others? Are you planning a rescue mission?
Col. Chester Phillips: Yeah, it's called winning the war.
Steve: But if you know where they are, why not at least...
Col. Chester Phillips: They're thirty miles behind the lines, through some of the most heavily fortified territory in Europe. We'd lose more men than we'd save, but I don't expect you to understand that because you're a chorus girl.
Steve: I think I understand just fine.
Col. Chester Phillips: Well, then understand it somewhere else.

- It is not something one buries.
- But I think it is close, yes?
- I cannot help you.
- No. But maybe you can help your village.
- You must have some friends out there.
- Some little grandchildren, perhaps?
- I have no need for them to die.

- of freedom is never too high.
Manager: Let's go! Get on with it!
- Hey, just start the cartoon!
- Hey, you wanna shut up?
- Announcer: Together with allied forces, we'll face any threat, no matter the size.

Nick: Trouble sleeping?
- You're here with a mission, sir?
- I am.
- Trying to get me back in the world?
- Trying to save it.
Nick: You think you're the only hero in the world?

James: [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: Yeah, and I threw up?
James: This isn't payback, is it?
Steve: [grinning] Now why would I do that?

Steve: [after Howard and Peggy steal a plane to get Steve across the front lines] You know, you two are going to be in a lot of trouble when you land.
Peggy: And you won't?
Steve: Where I'm goin', if anybody yells at me I can just shoot 'em.

- I don't know.
- It's probably a weather balloon.
- I don't think so.
- You know, we don't have the equipment for a job like this.
- How long before we can start craning it out?
- I don't think you quite understand.
- You guys are gonna need one hell of a crane.

- I am a great fan of your films!
- So, Dr. erskine managed it after all.
- Not exactly an improvement, but still, impressive.
- You've got no idea.
- Haven't I?

- Base, we're in.
- Man on radio: Copy that.
- What is this?
- Careful.

- Only the good stuff.
- Announcer over pa: Welcome to the modern marvels pavilion and the world of tomorrow.
- A greater world. A better world.
- Oh, my god! It's starting! [Giggles]
- Female announcer: Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Howard stark!

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

HYDRA: Cut off one head, two more...
- Let's go find two more!
- You're late.
- Weren't you about to...
- Right.

- Yes, I think it works.
- I had some ideas about the uniform.
- Whatever you want, pal.

- Taxi driver: What are you doing?
- Buddy, are you all right?
- Hey, this guy's been shot!
- I had him!
- Sorry!
- I'm sorry!
Manager: I don't believe it!
- Whoa, whoa, whoa!

- Who the hell are you?
- The first of many.
- Cut off one head,
- Two more shall take its place.
- Hail hydra.

- Taller.
- You look taller.
- How do you like Brooklyn now, senator?
- I can think of some folks in Berlin who are about to get very nervous.
Brandt's Aide: Congratulations, doctor.
- Thank you, sir.

- I can do this all day.
- Of course you can, of course.
- But, unfortunately,
- I am on a tight schedule.
- Soam I.

- A lot of people are asking for funds, colonel.
- Oh, this is...
- Fred clemson, state department.
- If this project of yours comes through, we'd like to see it used for something other than headlines.
- Jesus. Somebody get that kid a sandwich.

- If they shoot down one plane, hundreds more will rain fire upon them!
- If they cut off one head, two more shall take its place.
- Hail hydra.
- Hail hydra!
- Hail hydra!
- Hail hydra! Hail hydra!
- Hail hydra! Hail hydra!

Steve: 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: Your metabolism burns four times faster than the average person. He thought it could be one of the side effects.

- Serum infusion beginning in five, four, three, two, one.

- I got to put her in the water.
- Please, don't do this.
- We have time. We can work it out.
- 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.

- Hey. Not exactly a buick.
- That one. "Zundung.”
- Zlindung?
- Get this thing going, dugan!
- I didn't know you spoke German.
- Three semesters at Howard, switched to French, girls much cuter.
- Didn't ask for the résumé.

Steve: You save me any of that schnapps?
Abraham: Not as much as I should have. Sorry.

- Shall I give the order?
- It has been given.
- Good.
- Dr. zola!
- What do you think?
- A masterpiece.

- Wherever he's going, they must need him bad.
- Let's get going, because they're moving like the devil.
- We only got about a 10-second window.
- You miss that window, we're bugs on a windshield.
- Mind the gap.
- Better get moving, bugs!

Howard: 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 .

- You pretend to be a simple soldier, but in reality, you are just afraid to admit that we have left humanity behind.
- Unlike you, I embrace it proudly.
- Without fear!
- Then how come you're running?

Peggy: [to soldiers in training] Faster, ladies! Come on! My GRANDMOTHER has more life in her, God rest her soul. MOVE IT!

- Hell, no.
- That little guy from Brooklyn who was too dumb not to run away from a fight.
- I'm following him.
- But you're keeping the outfit, right?
- You know what?
- It's kind of growing on me.

Steve: [picking up a shield] What about this one?
Howard: No, no, that's just a prototype.
Steve: What's it made of?
Howard: Vibranium. It's stronger than steel and a third the weight. It's completely vibration absorbent.

- Gotta be a rope or something!
- Just go! Get out of here!
- No! Not without you!

- To the captain.
Manager: Sir?
- Take us to the next grid point.
- But there's no trace of wreckage.
- And the energy signature stops here.
- Just keep looking.

Peggy: Gentlemen, I'm Agent Carter. I supervise all operations of this division.
Gilmore: What's with the accent, Queen Victoria? Thought I was signing up for the U.S. Army.
Peggy: What's your name, soldier?
Gilmore: Gilmore Hodge, your Majesty.
Peggy: Step forward, Hodge.
[Hodge steps forward]
Peggy: Put your right foot forward.
Gilmore: Are we dancing? Cause I got a few moves I know you'll like.
[Peggy punches him in the face]