Erik Selvig Quotes in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

Thor: [comes to Selvig for help] This may be dangerous...

Erik Selvig: I would be disappointed if it wasn't.

Thor: You know, I had it all backwards. I had it all wrong.

Erik Selvig: It's not a bad thing finding out that you don't have all the answers. You start asking the right questions.

Thor: For the first time in my life, I have no idea what I'm supposed to do.

Erik Selvig: Anyone who's ever going to find his way in this world, has to start by admitting he doesn't know...

[Thor brings a drunken Selvig home]

Jane Foster: What happened?

Thor: He's fine! We drank, we fought - he made his ancestors proud!

Jane Foster: Put him on the bed.

Erik Selvig: [to Thor] Oh, I still don't think you're the god of thunder. But you ought to be!

[after credits]

[Dr Selvig wanders around an underground base]

Nick Fury: [greeting him] Dr. Selvig.

Erik Selvig: So, you're the man behind all this? It's quite a labyrinth. I was thinking that you had taken me down here to kill me.

Nick Fury: I've been hearing about the New Mexico situation. Your work has impressed a lot of people who are much smarter than I am.

Erik Selvig: I had a lot to work with: the Foster theory, a gateway to another dimension... it's unprecedented...

[Fury doesn't respond]

Erik Selvig: ...isn't it?

Nick Fury: Legend tells us one thing; history, another. But, every now and then, we find something that belongs to both.

[Fury opens a suitcase, which contains a small cube]

Erik Selvig: What is it?

Nick Fury: Power, Doctor. If we figure out how to tap it, maybe unlimited power.

[Loki is seen in a reflection, smiling]

Loki: [whispers to Selvig] Well, I guess that's worth a look.

Erik Selvig: Well, I guess that's worth a look.

Jane Foster: Years of research, gone.

Darcy: They even took my iPod.

Erik Selvig: What about the backups?

Jane Foster: They took our backups. They took the backups of our backups. They were extremely thorough.

Darcy: I just downloaded, like, 30 songs onto there.

Jane Foster: [about the mythology book] Where'd you find this?

Erik Selvig: The children's section. I just wanted to show you how silly his story was.

Jane Foster: But you're the one who's always pushing me to chase down every possibility, every alternative.

Erik Selvig: I'm talking about science, not magic.

Jane Foster: Well, "magic's just science we don't understand yet." Arthur C. Clarke.

Erik Selvig: Who wrote science-fiction.

Jane Foster: A precursor to science fact!

Erik Selvig: In some cases, yeah.

Jane Foster: Well, if there's an Einstein-Rosen bridge, then there's something on the other side. And advanced beings could have crossed it!

Erik Selvig: Oh, Jane.

Darcy: A primitive culture like the Vikings might have worshiped them as deities.

Jane Foster: Yes! Yes, exactly. Thank you.

Erik Selvig: It's not a bad thing finding out that you don't have all the answers. You start asking the right questions.

Erik Selvig: [about Jane] I've seen the way she looks at you. If you hurt her...

Thor: I swear to you, I mean her no harm.

Agent Coulson: Dr. Selvig, keep him away from the bars!

Thor: Where are we going?

Erik Selvig: To get a drink!

Erik Selvig: I knew this scientist, a pioneer in gamma radiation. SHIELD showed up, and that's the last I heard from him.

Erik Selvig: I've got the particle detectors... Darcy, do you have the SHIELD satellite codes?

Darcy: Yeah! Have you seen my taser?

Erik Selvig: It's in the car, come on Jane!