Peggy Carter Quotes in Ant-Man (2015)

[first lines]

Hank Pym: Stark!

Howard Stark: He doesn't seem happy. Hello, Hank. You're supposed to be in Moscow.

Hank Pym: I took a detour... Through your defense lab.

[slams a vial of Pym particles on table]

Peggy Carter: Tell me that isn't what I think it is.

Hank Pym: That depends if you think it's a poor attempt to replicate my work. Even for this group, that takes nerve.

Mitchell Carson: You were instructed to go to Russia. May I remind you, Dr. Pym, that you're a soldier...

Hank Pym: I'm a scientist.

Howard Stark: Then act like one. The Pym Particle is the most revolutionary science ever developed. Help us put it to good work.

Hank Pym: I let you turned me into your errand boy, and now you try to steal my research?

Mitchell Carson: If only you'd protected Janet with such ferocity, Dr. Pym.

Hank Pym: Ah...

[Pym slams Carson's head into a desk]

Peggy Carter: Easy, Hank!

Hank Pym: You mention my wife again, and I'll show you ferocity.

Howard Stark: [as Carson stares at him] Don't look at me. You said it.

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.

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.

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]

Peggy Carter: How do you feel?

Steve Rogers: Taller.

Peggy Carter: You can't give me orders!

Steve Rogers: The hell I can't! I'm a Captain!

[smiles]

Peggy Carter: You're late.

[hold up broken transmitter]

Steve Rogers: I couldn't call my ride.

[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!

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.

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!

Peggy Carter: Gentlemen, I'm Agent Carter. I supervise all operations of this division.

Gilmore Hodge: What's with the accent, Queen Victoria? Thought I was signing up for the U.S. Army.

Peggy Carter: What's your name, soldier?

Gilmore Hodge: Gilmore Hodge, your Majesty.

Peggy Carter: Step forward, Hodge.

[Hodge steps forward]

Peggy Carter: Put your right foot forward.

Gilmore Hodge: Are we dancing? Cause I got a few moves I know you'll like.

[Peggy punches him in the face]

Peggy Carter: Tell me, did you truly like your friend? Did you respect him?

Steve Rogers: [surprised] Yes!

Peggy Carter: Well then, stop blaming yourself! Give your friend the respect of making his own decisions!

Steve Rogers: [after one of Steve's "Captain America" shows] What are you doing here?

Peggy Carter: Officially I'm not here at all. That was quite a performance.

Steve Rogers: 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 Carter: I understand you're America's new hope.

Steve Rogers: Bond sales take a ten percent bump in every state I visit.

Peggy Carter: Is that Senator Brandt I hear?

Steve Rogers: At least he's got me doing this. Phillips would have had be stuck in lab.

Peggy Carter: 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 Carter: What?

Steve Rogers: You know for the longest time I dreamed about coming overseas and be on the front lines. Serving my country. I finally get everything I wanted, and I'm wearing tights.

Steve Rogers: [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 Carter: And you won't?

Steve Rogers: Where I'm goin', if anybody yells at me I can just shoot 'em.

Col. Chester Phillips: Agent Carter co-ordinate with MI6. I want every allied eyeball looking for that main Hydra base.

Peggy Carter: What about us?

Col. Chester Phillips: We are gonna set a fire under Johann Schmidt's ass. What do you say, Rogers? It's your map, you think you can wipe Hydra off of it?

Steve Rogers: Yes, sir. I'll need a team.

Col. Chester Phillips: We're already putting together the best men.

Steve Rogers: With all due respect, sir, so am I.

Peggy Carter: What do you plan to do? Walk to Austria?

Steve Rogers: If that's what it takes.

Peggy Carter: You heard the Colonel, you're friend is most likely dead.

Steve Rogers: You don't know that.

Peggy Carter: Even so, he's devising a strategy to take...

Steve Rogers: By the time he's done that, it could be too late! You told me you thought I was meant for more than this. Did you mean that?

Peggy Carter: Every word.

Steve Rogers: Then you gotta let me go.

Peggy Carter: I can do more than that...

Peggy Carter: You have no idea how to talk to a woman, do you?

Steve Rogers: 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.

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

Peggy Carter: Steve. You're alive. You came back.

Steve Rogers: Yeah, Peggy.

Peggy Carter: It's been so long. So long.

Steve Rogers: Well, I couldn't leave my best girl. Not when she owes me a dance.

Steve Rogers: You should be proud of yourself, Peggy.

[looks at Peggy's family photos by her table beside her, showing her with her husband and children]

Peggy Carter: Mm. I have lived a life. My only regret is that you didn't get to live yours.

[Sees Steve is downcast]

Peggy Carter: What is it?

Steve Rogers: For as long as I can remember I just wanted to do what was right. I guess I'm not quite sure what that is anymore. And I thought I could throw myself back in and follow orders, serve. It's just not the same.

Peggy Carter: [chuckles] You're always so dramatic. Look, you saved the world. We rather... mucked it up.

Steve Rogers: You didn't. Knowing that you helped found S.H.I.E.L.D. is half the reason I stay.

Peggy Carter: [takes Steve's hand] The world has changed, and none of us can go back. All we can do is our best, and sometimes the best that we can do is to start over.

Peggy Carter: Your father was a preacher?

Rennie: Kind of a phony evangelist. I tell ya, he was about the meanest man I've ever met in my life. He just naturally liked to beat up on anything that was smaller than him. And of course, he could always say he was beating the fear of God into ya.

Peggy Carter: Well, where is he now?

Rennie: Well, I, ah, well I hope I know where he is. He was the first man I ever killed.