Apocalypse Now quotes

View Quote What the hell do you know about surfing, Major? You're from god damned New Jersey.

View Quote We use Wagner. My boys love it. It scares the hell outta' the slopes.

View Quote Don't these people ever give up?

View Quote ****ing savages!

View Quote Outstanding, Red Team, outstanding! Getcha a case of beer for that one.

View Quote Lance Johnson the surfer?

View Quote You can take that boat anywhere that suits you, young captain.

View Quote This is the way the ****ing world ends. Look at this ****ing shit we're in man. Not with a bang, but with a whimper. And with a whimper, I'm ****ing splitting, Jack. (Note: This is a variation on T.S. Eliot's The Hollow Men – "This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper".)

View Quote Zap em' with your sirens, man! Zap em' with your sirens!

View Quote Roxanne: There are two of you. One that kills and one that loves.

View Quote Zack Johnson (radio announcer): And now here's another blast from the past coming out to Big Cind, all alone in the men's room out there with the First Battalion Thirty-fifth Infantry, and dedicated by the fire team at An Khe to their groupie CO Fred the Head: The Rolling Stones' Satisfaction.

View Quote Clean: This sho' nuff a bizarre sight in the middle-a all this shit!

View Quote Colonel Lucas: Your mission is to proceed up the Nung River in a Navy patrol boat. Pick up Colonel Kurtz's path at Nu Mung Ba, follow it and learn what you can along the way. When you find the Colonel, infiltrate his team by whatever means available and terminate the Colonel's command.
Willard: Terminate?..... the Colonel?
General Corman: He's out there operating without any decent restraint, totally beyond the pale of any acceptable human conduct. And he is still in the field commanding troops.
Jerry (CIA Civilian): Terminate..... with extreme prejudice.
Colonel Lucas: You understand, Captain, that this mission does not exist, nor will it ever exist.

View Quote Kurtz: Did they say why, Willard, why they want to terminate my command?
Willard: I was sent on a classified mission, sir.
Kurtz: It's no longer classified, is it? Did they tell you?
Willard: They told me that you had gone totally insane, and that your methods were unsound.
Kurtz: Are my methods unsound?
Willard: I don't see any method at all, sir.
Kurtz: I expected someone like you. What did you expect? Are you an assassin?
Willard: I'm a soldier.
Kurtz: You're neither. You're an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks, to collect a bill.

View Quote Willard: Who's in charge here, soldier?
Infantryman: Ain't you?
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Willard: Soldier, do you know who's in command here?
The Roach: Yeah. [turns away]