Natasha quotes from Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

Natasha

I know who killed Fury. Most of the intelligence community doesn't believe he exists. The ones who do call him the Winter Soldier. He's credited with over two dozen assassinations in the last fifty years.

Rogers

So, he's a ghost story.

Natasha

Five years ago I was escorting a nuclear engineer out of Iran, somebody shot out my tires near Odessa. We lost control, went straight over a cliff, I pulled us out, but the Winter Soldier was there. I was covering my engineer, so he shot him straight through me. [Pulls up her shirt to show him the bullet wound on the side of her belly] A Soviet slug, no rifling. Bye-bye bikinis.

Rogers

Yeah, I bet you look terrible in them now.

Natasha

Going after him is a dead end. I know, I've tried. [Holds up the flash drive] Like you said, he's a ghost story.

Rogers

Well, let's find out what the ghost wants.

Natasha

Was that your first kiss since 1945?

Rogers

That bad huh?

Natasha

I didn't say it was bad.

Rogers

Well, it kinda sounded like that.

Natasha

No, I was just wondering.

Rogers

That was not my first kiss since 1945. I'm 95, I'm not dead.

Natasha

Nobody special, though?

Rogers

Believe it or not, it's kind of hard to find someone with shared life experience.

Natasha

Well, that's alright, you just make something up.

Rogers

What, like you?

Natasha

I don't know. The truth is a matter of circumstances, it's not all things to all people all the time. And neither am I.

Rogers

That's a tough way to live.

Natasha

It's a good way not to die, though.

Rogers

You know, it's kind of hard to trust someone when you don't know who that someone really is.

Natasha

Yeah. Who do you want me to be?

Rogers

How about a friend?

Natasha

Well, there's a chance you might be in the wrong business, Rogers.

Rogers

How did you get here?

Invited.

Natasha

It was Operation Paperclip after World War II. S.H.I.E.L.D recruited German scientists with strategic values.

They thought I could help their cause. I also helped my own.

Rogers

HYDRA died with the Red Skull.

Cut off one head, two more shall take its place.

Rogers

Prove it.

Accessing archive. [The computer screen shows them old footage of the Red Skull and the original S.H.I.E.L.D founders] HYDRA was founded on the belief that humanity could not be trusted with its own freedom. What we did not realize was that if you try to take that freedom, they resist. The war taught us much. Humanity needed to surrender its freedom willingly. After the war, S.H.I.E.L.D was founded and I was recruited. The new HYDRA grew. A beautiful parasite inside S.H.I.E.L.D. For seventy years, HYDRA has been secretly feeding crisis, reaping war. And when history did not cooperate, history was changed. [The computer screen shows field reports with photos of the Winter Soldier, carrying out top-level assassinations for HYDRA]

Natasha

That's impossible, S.H.I.E.L.D would have stopped you.

Accidents will happen. [The computer screen shows them HYDRA had killed Howard and Maria Stark making it look like a car accident, along with the recent death of Fury] HYDRA created a world so chaotic that humanity is finally ready to sacrifice its freedom to gain its security. Once the purification process is complete, HYDRA's new world order will arise. We won, Captain. Your death amounts to the same as your Life; a zero sum. [In anger Steve suddenly smashes the computer screen. Zola's face reappears on another] As I was saying…

Rogers

What's on this drive?

Project Insight requires insight. So I wrote an algorithm.

Natasha

What kind of algorithm? What does it do?

The answer to your question is fascinating. Unfortunately, you shall be too dead to hear it. [Bunker door starts to close; Steve throws his shield to keep it open, but it bounces off and the door closes]

Natasha

Steve, we got a bogey! Short-range ballistic. Thirty seconds, tops.

Rogers

Who fired it?

Natasha

S.H.I.E.L.D.

I'm afraid I have been stalling, Captain. Admit it, it's better this way. [Steve pulls out a grate in the floor and jumps through it with Natasha] We are, both of us, out of time.
[The missile hits, reducing the bunker to rubble]

Natasha

Where did Captain America learn to steal a car?

Nazi Germany. And we're borrowing it, get your feet off the dash.

Natasha

Alright I have a question for you. Uh, which you do not have to answer. I feel like if you don't answer it though, you're kind of answering it-

What?

Natasha

Was that your first kiss since 1945?

That bad huh?

Natasha

I didn't say that.

Well, it kinda sounds like that's what you said.

Natasha

No, I didn't. I just wondered how much practice you've had.

You don't need practice.

Natasha

Everybody needs practice.

That was not my first kiss since 1945. I'm 95, I'm not dead.

Natasha

Nobody special, then?

Believe it or not, it's kind of hard to find someone with shared life experience.

Natasha

Well, that's alright, you just make something up.

What, like you?

Natasha

I don't know. The truth is a matter of circumstances, it's not all things to all people all the time. And neither am I.

That's a tough way to live.

Natasha

It's a good way not to die, though.

You know, it's kind of hard to trust someone when you don't know who that someone really is.

Natasha

Yeah. Who do you want me to be?

How about a friend?

Natasha

Well, there's a chance you might be in the wrong business, Rogers.