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Tommy Lee Jones, Kenneth Choi, Chris Evans, JJ Feild, Neal McDonough, Bruno Ricci, Hugo Weaving, Derek Luke, Sebastian Stan, and Hayley Atwell in Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)

Sebastian Stan: James Buchanan 'Bucky' Barnes

Captain America: The First Avenger

Sebastian Stan credited as playing...

James Buchanan 'Bucky' Barnes

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Quotes13

  • Johann Schmidt: 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 'Bucky' Barnes: [to Steve] You don't have one of those, do you?
  • [Steve finds Bucky strapped to a table in one of Schmidt's testing labs and quickly releases him from it]
  • Steve Rogers: It's me. It's Steve.
  • James 'Bucky' Barnes: [groggily] Steve?
  • Steve Rogers: Come on.
  • James 'Bucky' Barnes: Steve.
  • Steve Rogers: I thought you were dead.
  • James 'Bucky' Barnes: [aware of Steve's new size] I thought you were smaller.
  • [talking about Steve taking the Super-Soldier formula]
  • James 'Bucky' Barnes: Did it hurt?
  • Steve Rogers: A little.
  • James 'Bucky' Barnes: Is this permanent?
  • Steve Rogers: So far.
  • James 'Bucky' Barnes: [discovering Steve is taller] What happened to you?
  • Steve Rogers: I joined the Army.
  • James 'Bucky' Barnes: [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 Rogers: Yeah, and I threw up?
  • James 'Bucky' Barnes: This isn't payback, is it?
  • Steve Rogers: [grinning] Now why would I do that?
  • Steve Rogers: You ready to follow Captain America into the jaws of death?
  • James 'Bucky' Barnes: Hell, no! The little guy from Brooklyn who was too dumb not to run away from a fight. I'm following him.
  • [Smiles]
  • James 'Bucky' Barnes: But you're keeping the outfit, right?
  • Steve Rogers: You know what? It's kinda grown on me.
  • Steve Rogers: Where are we going?
  • James 'Bucky' Barnes: The future.
  • [from trailer]
  • Col. Chester Phillips: General Patton has said that wars are fought with weapons but are won by men.
  • Loud Jerk: You just don't know when to give up, do ya?
  • Steve Rogers: I could do this all day.
  • Col. Chester Phillips: Our goal is to create the greatest army in history.
  • Steve Rogers: I should be going with you. Look, I know you don't think I can do this...
  • James 'Bucky' Barnes: This isn't a back alley, Steve. It's war!
  • Col. Chester Phillips: But every army begins with one man.
  • Abraham Erskine: Five tries in five different cities. I can offer you a chance.
  • Col. Chester Phillips: He will be the first in a new breed of super-soldier.
  • Steve Rogers: Why me?
  • Abraham Erskine: Because a weak man knows the value of strength, of the value of power.
  • Steve Rogers: That wasn't so bad.
  • Abraham Erskine: That was penicillin.
  • Col. Chester Phillips: We are going to win this war because we have the best men.
  • Abraham Erskine: Now, Mr. Stark.
  • [Howard Stark engages the machine]
  • Col. Chester Phillips: And they will, personally, escort Adolf Hitler to the gates of Hell.
  • [Before Rogers and Barnes part ways]
  • James 'Bucky' Barnes: Don't do anything stupid until I come back.
  • Steve Rogers: How can I? You're taking all the stupid with you.
  • Steve Rogers, James 'Bucky' Barnes: I had him on the ropes.
  • James 'Bucky' Barnes: Why are you so keen to fight? There are so many important jobs.
  • Steve Rogers: What am I gonna do? Collect scrap metal...
  • James 'Bucky' Barnes: Yes!
  • Steve Rogers: ...in my little red wagon.
  • James 'Bucky' Barnes: Why not?
  • Steve Rogers: I'm not gonna sit in a factory, Bucky.
  • James 'Bucky' Barnes: I don't...
  • Steve Rogers: Bucky, come on! There are men laying down their lives. I got no right to do any less than them. That's what you don't understand. This isn't about me.
  • James 'Bucky' Barnes: Right. Cause you got nothing to prove.
  • Steve Rogers: [James is dressed in his army uniform] You get your orders?
  • James 'Bucky' Barnes: The one-o-seventh. Sergeant James Barnes. Shipping out for England first thing tomorrow.
  • Steve Rogers: I should be going.
  • James 'Bucky' Barnes: Come on, man. My last night! Gotta get you cleaned up.
  • Steve Rogers: Why? Where are we going?
  • James 'Bucky' Barnes: The future.
  • [He hands him the newspaper he was holding. Steve opens it to see the ad for World Exposition of Tomorrow, 1943]
  • James 'Bucky' Barnes: How many times is this?
  • [giving Steve's enlistment form a once-over]
  • James 'Bucky' Barnes: Oh, you're from Paramus now? You know it's illegal to lie on the enlistment form. And seriously, Jersey?

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