Samuel L. Jackson: Nick Fury
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Quotes
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Sam Wilson : 41st floor! 41st!
Nick Fury : It's not like they put the floor numbers on the outside of the building.
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Nick Fury : Why make me head of SHIELD?
Alexander Pierce : Because you're the best. And the most ruthless person I ever met.
Nick Fury : I did what I did to protect people.
Alexander Pierce : Our enemies are your enemies, Nick. Disorder, war. It's just a matter of time before a dirty bomb goes off in Moscow, or an EMP fries Chicago. Diplomacy? Holding action, a band-aid. And you know where I learned that; Bogota. You didn't ask, you just did what had to be done. I can bring order to the lives of seven billion people by sacrificing twenty million. It's the next step, Nick, if you have the courage to take it.
Nick Fury : No, I have the courage not to.
[Moves to the retinal scanner]
Alexander Pierce : You don't you think we wiped your clearance from the system?
Nick Fury : I know you erased my password. Probably deleted my retinal scan. But if you want to stay ahead of me, Mr. Secretary...
[removes his eye patch]
Nick Fury : ... you need to keep both eyes open.
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Nick Fury : We have to assume everyone aboard those carriers is HYDRA. We have to get past them, insert these server blades. And maybe, just maybe, we can salvage what's left...
Steve Rogers : We're not salvaging anything. We're not just taking down the carriers, Nick. We're taking down S.H.I.E.L.D.
Nick Fury : S.H.I.E.L.D. had nothing to do with this.
Steve Rogers : You gave me this mission. This is how it ends. S.H.I.E.L.D.'s been compromised. You said so yourself. HYDRA grew right under your nose and nobody noticed.
Nick Fury : Why do you think we're meeting in this cave? I noticed.
Steve Rogers : How many paid the price before you did?
Nick Fury : Look, I didn't know about Barnes.
Steve Rogers : Even if you had, would you have told me? Or would you have compartmentalized that, too? S.H.I.E.L.D., HYDRA, it all goes.
Maria Hill : He's right.
Sam Wilson : [Fury glances at Natasha, who gives a quiet indication of the same opinion. Fury then looks at Wilson] Don't look at me. I do what he does, just slower.
Nick Fury : Well... It looks like you're giving the orders now, Captain.
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Steve Rogers : You just can't stop yourself from lying, can you?
Nick Fury : I didn't lie. Agent Romanoff had a different mission than yours.
Steve Rogers : Which you didn't feel obliged to share.
Nick Fury : I'm not obliged to do anything.
Steve Rogers : Those hostages could have died, Nick.
Nick Fury : I sent the greatest soldier in history to make sure that didn't happen.
Steve Rogers : Soldiers trust each other. That's what makes it an army. Not a bunch of guys running around shooting guns.
Nick Fury : Last time I trusted someone, I lost an eye. Look, I didn't want you doing anything you weren't comfortable with. Agent Romanoff is comfortable with everything.
Steve Rogers : I can't lead a mission when the people I'm leading have missions of their own.
Nick Fury : It's called compartmentalization. Nobody spills the secrets, because nobody knows them all.
Steve Rogers : Except you.
Nick Fury : You're wrong about me. I do share. I'm nice like that.
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Nick Fury : These new long range precision guns can eliminate a thousand hostiles a minute. The satellites can read a terrorist's DNA before he steps outside his spider hole. We're gonna neutralize a lot of threats before they even happen.
Steve Rogers : I thought the punishment usually came *after* the crime.
Nick Fury : We can't afford to wait that long.
Steve Rogers : Who's "we"?
Nick Fury : After New York, I convinced the World Security Council we needed a quantum surge in threat analysis. For once we're way ahead of the curve.
Steve Rogers : By holding a gun at everyone on Earth and calling it protection.
Nick Fury : You know, I read those SSR files. Greatest generation? You guys did some nasty stuff.
Steve Rogers : Yeah, we compromised. Sometimes in ways that made us not sleep so well. But we did it so the people could be free. This isn't freedom, this is fear.
Nick Fury : S.H.I.E.L.D. takes the world as it is, not as we'd like it to be. And it's getting damn near past time for you to get with that program, Cap.
Steve Rogers : Don't hold your breath.
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Nick Fury : [holds a photo of Alexander Pierce] This man declined the Nobel Peace Prize. He said that peace is not an achievement but a responsibility. It's stuff like this that gives me trust issues.
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Nick Fury : [at his own grave] If anyone asks for me, tell them I'm right here...
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Nick Fury : [sees cops staring at him] Wanna see my lease?
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Nick Fury : Tetradoxine B. Reduces the pulse to one heartbeat a minute. Banner made it for his stress-related issues. It didn't go well for him, but we found uses for it.
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Nick Fury : [about the Insight helicarriers] Yeah, I know. They're a little bit bigger than a .22.
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Steve Rogers : [in an elevator] You know, they used to play music.
Nick Fury : Yeah. My grandfather operated one of these things for forty years. My granddad - worked in a nice building; he got good tips. He'd walk home every night, roll of ones stuffed in his lunch bag. He'd say "hi", people would say hi back. Time went on, neighborhood got rougher. He'd say "Hi", they'd say, "Keep on steppin'." Granddad got to grippin' that lunch bag a little tighter.
Steve Rogers : Did he ever get mugged?
Nick Fury : [laughs] Every week some punk would say, "What's in the bag?"
Steve Rogers : Well, what did he do?
Nick Fury : He'd show 'em. A bunch of crumpled ones... and a loaded 0.22 Magnum. Granddad loved people. But he didn't trust them very much.
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Steve Rogers : [Comes home to find Fury in his apartment] I don't remember giving you a key.
Nick Fury : You really think I'd need one? My wife kicked me out.
Steve Rogers : Didn't know you were married.
Nick Fury : There are a lot of things you don't know about me.
Steve Rogers : I know, Nick. That's the problem.
[Flicks on a light, notices Fury is injured, is about to say something, but Fury gestures for him to be silent]
Nick Fury : [Holds up a message on his phone: EARS EVERYWHERE] I'm sorry to have do this, but I had no place else to crash.
[Holds about another message: SHIELD COMPROMISED]
Steve Rogers : Who else knows about your wife?
Nick Fury : [Another message: YOU AND ME] Just... my friends.
Steve Rogers : Is that what we are?
Nick Fury : That's up to you.
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Nick Fury : Project Insight has to be delayed.
Alexander Pierce : Nick, that's not a favor, that's a sub-committee hearing. A long one.
Nick Fury : It could be nothing. It probably is nothing. I just need time to make sure it's nothing.
Alexander Pierce : But if it's something?
Nick Fury : Then we'll both be damn glad those helicarriers aren't in the air.
Alexander Pierce : Fine. But you got to get Iron Man to stop by my niece's birthday party.
Nick Fury : Thank you, sir.
Alexander Pierce : And not just a flyby. He's got to mingle.
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Alexander Pierce : I work forty floors away and it takes a hijacking for you to visit?
Nick Fury : Well, a nuclear war would do it too.
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Nick Fury : About damn time.
