Private Joker [narrating]
Parris Island, South Carolina. The Marine Corps Training Depot. An eight-week college for the phony tough and the crazy brave.
Most-quoted role: Private Joker in Full Metal Jacket (1987), 25 quotes
Movies Private Joker Private Joker [being interviewed]
I wanted to see exotic Vietnam... the crown jewel of Southeast Asia. I wanted to meet interesting and stimulating people of an ancient culture... and kill them. I wanted to be the first kid on my block to get a confirmed kill!
Private Joker [narrating]
My thoughts drift back to erect nipple wet dreams about Mary Jane Rottencrotch and the Great Homecoming **** Fantasy. I am so happy that I am alive, in one piece, and short. I'm in a world of shit... yes. But I am alive. And I am not afraid.
Dr. Don Francis This may be the first epidemic in history of which no one officially died.
Dr. Robert Gallo All right, explain one thing to me. Ten times ten times ten, my name is in every book ever written on the human retrovirus. Why would you get in bed with the French instead of me?
Dr. Don Francis Is it you against the French? I thought we were all against the virus. If you go to court now, everybody loses. You, the people who die while you quibble...
Dr. Robert Gallo [Interrupting]
What do you want?
Dr. Don Francis I want to stop you from turning a holocaust into an international pissing contest!
Eddie Papasano Let me tell you people something, no matter what happens here today, if you try to close my joint, I 'll sue the ass off you.
Dr. Don Francis Doesn't it bother you knowing that the people who have sex in your bath-house are playing Russian roulette?
Eddie Papasano Please just cut out this bullshit. We're all in this for one thing: money. I make'em when the guys come in. You doctors, you make'em when they go out.
Georg Bell
[Georg Bell visits the Straight Path offices]
Hitler's just called an emergency meeting at the Reichstag. He wants our approval for something he calls the "Enabling Act", which will turn this country into a police state, with him as absolute ruler.
Fritz Gerlich My God. No matter what he does, he just gets stronger!
Sepp
I'll bet the Nazis set the fire themselves.
Bell
There's something I haven't told you. Once this is out, Röhm will identify me as your source. My job as Röhm's press secretary was just a front. He hired me to get financing outside of Germany.
Sepp
Financing? For what?
Bell
The SA. He agreed to sign a contract with a man in London in exchange for exclusive oil imports to Germany.
Sepp
The Nazi Party was giving economic incentives to a foreign investor?
Gerlich What happened to Germans for Germany?
Bell
Exactly.
Fritz Gerlich He's insane. A complete psychotic. He may be a compelling speaker on stage, but in person I could see into his eyes and what I saw was... terrifying.
Gustav von Kahr And I intend to shut him down.
Fritz Gerlich With all due respect, Commissar Von Kahr, you need to handle him with care.
Gustav von Kahr Don't worry, I will. I know how to deal with Adolf Hitler.
Fritz Gerlich [via a letter to his wife]
My dearest Sophie. I don't know when, or if, I will ever see you again. I don't say this to shock. I say this because I must ask one more thing if you; please live. Urge others to speak out, even when what they have to say is not popular. Tell them to embrace courage as a gift, and pass it onto their children. [a montage ensues of Gerlich and other prisoners being escorted to Dachau Concentration Camp, and various arrests and executions of perceived Nazi opponents during the Night of the Long Knives, before we cut to Gerlich about to be executed in his cell at Dachau] You have always been my hope; the promise of goodness, and truth, and devotion. Knowing that those qualities still survive in this world lets me leave it with a lighter heart. Don't mourn; I've given everything I have to this struggle, and my only option, now, is to give the last, most precious thing. It will mark this moment in time forever, so that people will remember. Yours always, Fritz.