They Quotes

Drifter: What's wrong with having it good for a change? Now they're gonna let us have it good if we just help 'em. They're gonna leave us alone, let us make some money. You can have a little taste of that good life too. Now, I know you want it. Hell, everybody does.
Frank: You'd do it to your own kind.
Drifter: What's the threat? We all sell out every day, might as well be on the winning team.

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Lei Zhao: [about the way Asians are being portrayed in the media] We can do more than kung-fu. We need to get out there. This is not our image. We are not Chuan-Pei Pi Pa Jelly Candy. We are something bigger than that.

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Lt. John Brickley: Oh, Snuffy... how about getting some torpedoes from you?
Submarine commander: For those cracker boxes of yours? No telling when we'll see a mother ship again.
Lt. John Brickley: How long have you been on patrol?
Submarine commander: Since the day the war started.
Lt. 'Rusty' Ryan: What did you get?
Submarine commander: Two small freighters. We had hard luck.
Lt. John Brickley: Well, while you've been cruising around the Pacific, those 'cracker boxes' have sunk two converted cruisers, an auxiliary aircraft carrier, a 10,000-ton tanker, a large freighter, a flock of barges and numerous sons of Nippon!
Lt. 'Rusty' Ryan: And also in our brief career, we've carried more messages than Western Union!
Submarine commander: Well, look, I'd love to help you out, fellas. But you know, I got orders...
Lt. John Brickley: Snuffy... who played the leading lady in "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" in 1932 at the Academy?
Lt. 'Rusty' Ryan: And does your crew know about it?
Submarine commander: [after a long pause] How many do you want?
Lt. John Brickley: You've got sixteen?
Lt. 'Rusty' Ryan: We'll take eight.
Lt. John Brickley: And we'll try and put 'em where they belong.
Submarine commander: Thanks. [walks away slowly]

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