Apocalypse Now quotes

View Quote You either surf or you fight.

View Quote Roxanne: The war will still be here tomorrow.

View Quote Lance Johnson the surfer?

View Quote The crew were mostly just kids. Rock 'n' rollers with one foot in their graves.

View Quote Unass that shit, get it out of here.

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

View Quote He was one of those guys that had that weird light around him. You just knew he wasn't going to get so much as a scratch here.

View Quote **** it. I'm gonna get me some mangoes.

View Quote One through nine, no maybes, no supposes, no fractions. You can't travel in space, you can't go out into space, you know, without, like, you know, uh, with fractions – what are you going to land on – one-quarter, three-eighths? What are you going to do when you go from here to Venus or something? That's dialectic physics.

View Quote On the river, I thought that the minute I looked at him, I'd know what to do, but it didn't happen. I was in there with him for days, not under guard, I was free, but he knew I wasn't going anywhere. He knew more about what I was going to do than I did. If the Generals back in Nha Trang could see what I saw, would they still want me to kill him? More than ever, probably. And what would his people back home want if they ever learned just how far from them he'd really gone? He broke from them, and then he broke from himself. I'd never seen a man so broken up and ripped apart.

View Quote Roxanne (after asking if Willard will go back to America after the war and he replies no): Then you are like us; your home is here.

View Quote No wonder Kurtz put a weed up Command's ass. The war was being run by a bunch of four star clowns who were gonna end up giving the whole circus away.

View Quote I will not hurt or harm you. Just give me back the board, Lance. It was a good board – and I like it. You know how hard it is to find a board you like. (repeated over helicopter loudspeaker)

View Quote Oh man, the shit piled up so fast in Vietnam you needed wings to stay above it.

View Quote I worry that my son might not understand what I've tried to be. And if I were to be killed, Willard, I would want someone to go to my home and tell my son everything – everything I did, everything you saw – because there's nothing that I detest more than the stench of lies. And if you understand me, Willard, you will do this for me.