Stellan Skarsgård: Erik Selvig

Thor

Erik Selvig

[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!

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...

[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: Could you please stop with your iPod?

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.

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!

Jane Foster: I'm gonna get everything back.
Erik Selvig: Come on, please. Let me contact one of my colleagues. He's had some dealings with these people before. I'll e-mail him and maybe he can help.
Darcy: They took your laptop, too.

Erik Selvig: I only did it for Jane. Her father and I taught at university together. He was a good man. He never listened.
Thor: Neither did I. My father was trying to teach me something, but I was too stupid to see it.

Agent Coulson: [referring to Thor] That still doesn't explain how he managed to tear through our security.
Erik Selvig: Steroids! He's a bit of a fitness nut.