Jay "Chef" Hicks [sobbing; after Willard executes a dying Vietnamese woman]
**** you. **** you. **** them.
3rd most-quoted character in Apocalypse Now (1979): in 13 of its 93 quotes
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More lines from Jay "Chef" Hicks
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Jay "Chef" Hicks [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!
Jay "Chef" Hicks (after learning the purpose of Willard's mission)
Shit. ****in' Vietnam mission! I'm short and we gotta go up there so you can kill one of our own guys? That's ****in' great! That's just ****in' great, man. Shit. That's ****in'... crazy! I thought you were going in there to blow up a bridge, or, some **** railroad tracks or somethin'.
Jay "Chef" Hicks I'm asleep. I'm asleep and dreaming I'm on this shitty boat.
Jay "Chef" Hicks Never get out of the boat!
Jay "Chef" Hicks (Referring to Kurtz)
He's worse than crazy, he's evil!
Jay "Chef" Hicks I used to think if I died in an evil place, then my soul wouldn't make it to heaven. Well, ****. I don't care where it goes as long it ain't here.
Jay "Chef" Hicks [after being given a "tour" of Kurtz's camp, which contained rows of human heads impaled on spikes and displayed around ancient temples, Chef is horrified]
"This Colonel guy? He's wacko, man! He's far worse than crazy, he's evil! I mean, that's what the man's got set up here. It's ****in' pagan idolatry! Look around you. Shit! He's loco... I ain't afraid of all them ****in' skulls and altars and shit. I used to think if I died in an evil place, then my soul wouldn't be able to make it to Heaven. But now? ****, I mean, I don't care where it goes, as long as it ain't here! So whaddya wanna do? I'll kill the ****..."
Scenes with Jay "Chef" Hicks
3 scenes 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]
My mission is to make it up into Cambodia. There's a Green Beret Colonel up there who's gone insane. I'm supposed to kill him.
Chef That's **** typical! Shit. ****in' Vietnam mission! I'm short and we gotta go up there so you can kill one of our own guys? That's ****in' great! That's just ****in' great, man. Shit. That's ****in'... crazy! I thought you were going in there to blow up a bridge, or, some **** railroad tracks or somethin'.
Chef [the boat has arrived at the Do Lung bridge, which is a combat zone]
Lance, hey Lance. What do you think?
Lance It's beautiful.
Chef What's the matter with you? You're acting kinda weird.
Lance Hey, you know that last tab of acid I was saving? I dropped it.
Chef You dropped acid? ... Far out.
