Apocalypse Now quotes
89 total quotesJay "Chef" Hicks
Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore
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We must kill them. We must incinerate them. Pig after pig. Cow after cow. Village after village. Army after army. And they call me an assassin. What do you call it when the assassins accuse the assassin? They lie. They lie, and we have to be merciful, for those who lie. Those nabobs. I hate them. I do hate them.
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We train young men to drop fire on people. But their commanders won't allow them to write "****" on their airplanes because it's obscene!
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We use Wagner. My boys love it. It scares the hell outta' the slopes.
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What the hell do you know about surfing, Major? You're from god damned New Jersey.
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Which way, Captain? (Willard replies, "you know the way, Chief") You're on your own, Captain. Still wanna go on? Like this bridge: we build it every night. Charlie blows it right back up again. Just so the generals can say the road's open. Think about it. Who cares?
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You can take that boat anywhere that suits you, young captain.
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You either surf or you fight.
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You got us in this mess, and now you can't get us out, because you don't know where the hell you're going, do you? (Willard doesn't answer) Do you? You son of a bitch! You bastard!
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You know, I've pulled a few special Ops in here. About six months ago, I took a man who was going past the bridge at Do Lung. [pause] He was regular army, too. I heard he shot himself in the head.
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You smell that? Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve hours. When it was all over I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like ... victory.
Note: bolded line is ranked #12 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.
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You're neither! You're an errand boy sent by grocery clerks....to collect a bill.
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Zap em' with your sirens, man! Zap em' with your sirens!
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[after the tiger attack] You can kiss my ass 'cause I'm bugging out! I didn't drop out of the goddamn eigth grade for this shit, man! I only wanted to learn to cook, I only wanted to ****in' cook, man!
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[sobbing; after Willard executes a dying Vietnamese woman] **** you. **** you. **** them.