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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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[–] 8 years ago

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[–] pjl69 8 years ago

The entire movie is quotable...

[–] Wuchakk 8 years ago

Kurtz: "I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream; that's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor... and surviving."

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[–] christomacin (4660) 7 years ago

"Oh man... the bullsh!t piled up so fast in Vietnam, you needed wings to stay above it."
"I wanted a mission, and for my sins, they gave me one."
"Even the jungle wanted him dead, and that’s who he really took his orders from anyway."
"Never get out of the boat."

[–] bigmal (93) 7 years ago

Git some Git some... I have been to the War museum at HMC and they have Hueys with miniguns that you can sit behind. Everyone that had a go shouted, "git some git some"...

[–] brux (14730) 7 years ago

That one where someone asks a soldier, who's in charge here,
and he replies, I thought you was, sir.

[–] Wuchak (8773) 5 years ago

Yeah, the soldier answers "Ain't you?" (lol)

[–] Wuchak (8773) 6 years ago

"Damn gook names; they all sound the same."

[–] Wuchak (8773) 6 years ago

"Don't look at the camera; don't look at the camera -- like you're fighting, like you're fighting -- don't look at the camera!"