Apocalypse Now quotes

View Quote If I say it's safe to surf this beach, Captain, then it's safe to surf this beach!

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

View Quote Chef: How come all you guys sit on your helmets?
Soldier: So we don't get our balls blown off.
[Chef laughs a little, seems to think for a second and then sits on his helmet]

View Quote Kilgore: How're you feeling, Jimmy?
Door Gunner: Like a mean mother****er, sir!

View Quote Lt. Carlsen: You're in the asshole of the world, Captain!

View Quote I was going to the worst place in the world, and I didn't even know it yet. Weeks away and hundreds of miles up a river that snaked through the war like a main circuit cable – plugged straight into Kurtz. It was no accident that I got to be the caretaker of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz's memory – any more than being back in Saigon was an accident. There is no way to tell his story without telling my own. And if his story really is a confession, then so is mine.

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

View Quote You either surf or you fight.

View Quote Hubert: You are fighting for the biggest nothing in history.

View Quote Everyone gets everything he wants. I wanted a mission, and for my sins, they gave me one. Brought it up to me like room service. It was a real choice mission, and when it was over, I'd never want another.

View Quote Lance: Disneyland. ****, man, this is better than Disneyland.

View Quote Charlie don't surf!

View Quote Lance Johnson the surfer?

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