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Best Quotes

posted 9 years ago by Wuchakk
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It's amazing the wealth of great quotes that are in this movie, like "I love the smell of napalm in the morning." I'll cite a few; feel free to cite some others.

Willard: "Saigon... s***."

Kilgore: "What the hell do you know about surfing, Major? You're from goddamned New Jersey!"

Willard: "He was close, real close."

Willard (about Colonel Kilgore): "Well, he wasn't a bad officer, I guess. He loved his boys, and he felt safe with him. He was just one of those guys with that weird light around him. He just knew he wasn't gonna get so much as a scratch here."

Kurtz: "We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders won't allow them to write *beep* on their airplanes because it's obscene!"

Kurtz: "Are my methods unsound?"
Willard: "I don't... see... any method... at all... sir."

Kilgore's taped message to the PBR team: "I will not hurt or harm you. Just give me back the board, Lance. It was a good board and I like it. You know how hard it is to find a board you like."

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[–] Wuchak (8772) 6 years ago

"Suki -- suki yaki"

[–] TexasJack (12516) 6 years ago

“Even the jungle wanted him dead, and that’s who he really took his orders from anyway.”

[–] Wuchak (8772) 5 years ago

Kurtz: "And I thought, my God... the genius of that! The genius! The will to do that! Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure."

[–] Wuchak (8772) 5 years ago

He goes on to say: "These men who fought with their hearts, who had families, who had children, who were filled with love... but they had the strength... the strength... to do that. If I had ten divisions of those men, our troubles here would be over very quickly."

[–] Wuchak (8772) 5 years ago

Followed by: "You have to have men who are moral... and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordial instincts to kill without feeling... without passion... without judgment... without judgment! Because it's judgment that defeats us."

[–] Wuchak (8772) 5 years ago

"Hey, soldier: Do you know who is in command here?"
"Yeah."

[–] Wuchak (8772) 5 years ago

Compare this one with the similar quote (previously noted on this thread) wherein Willard asks a different soldier the same question and he replies "Ain't you?"

[–] Wuchak (8772) 5 years ago

"I told you not to stop."

[–] Wuchak (8772) 5 years ago

"Hey, buddy, you gonna shut the door?!"

[–] Roguemail (1614) 5 years ago

"Never get out of the boat...absolutely goddam right."

I always thought of that line when I made questionable decisions in my life...in a kind of 'should not have done that' kind of fashion.

[–] Wuchak (8772) 5 years ago

"Well, let's see what we have here... roast beef and usually it's not bad."

[–] Wuchak (8772) 5 years ago

"That's Cambodia, Captain."