Platoon Quotes
Chris Taylor: He killed him, I know that he killed him, I saw his eyes when we came back in.
Rhah: How do you know the dinks didn't get him? You've got no proof, man.
Chris Taylor: The proof is in the eyes, when you know you know.
Rhah: How do you know the dinks didn't get him? You've got no proof, man.
Chris Taylor: The proof is in the eyes, when you know you know.
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Rhah: What did you turn in to the underworld for, Taylor?
King: This here ain't Taylor. Taylor's dead! This here is Chris. He's been resurrected.
King: This here ain't Taylor. Taylor's dead! This here is Chris. He's been resurrected.
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Sgt. Elias: What happened today was just the beginning. We're gonna lose this war.
Chris Taylor: Come on! You really think so? Us?
Sgt. Elias: We've been kicking other peoples asses for so long I figured it's time we got ours kicked.
Chris Taylor: Come on! You really think so? Us?
Sgt. Elias: We've been kicking other peoples asses for so long I figured it's time we got ours kicked.
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Sgt. Elias: Police up your spare rounds and frags. Don't leave nothin' for the dinks.
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Sgt. Barnes : You talking about killing? Hmm? Y'all experts? Y'all know about killing? I'd like to hear about it, potheads. [ takes pipe and inhales drag ]
Sgt. Barnes : Are you smoking this shit so's to escape from reality? Me, I don't need this shit. I am reality. There's the way it ought to be, and there's the way it is. Elias was full of shit. Elias was a crusader. Now, I got no fight... with any man who does what he's told. But when he don't, the machine breaks down. And when the machine breaks down, we break down. And I ain't gonna allow that... in any of you. Not one. [ hands pipe back and spits ]
Sgt. Barnes : Y'all love Elias. Oh, you wanna kick ass. Yeah. Well, here I am, all by my lonesome. And there ain't nobody gonna know. Six of you boys against me. Kill me. Huh. I shit on all of you.
Sgt. Barnes : Are you smoking this shit so's to escape from reality? Me, I don't need this shit. I am reality. There's the way it ought to be, and there's the way it is. Elias was full of shit. Elias was a crusader. Now, I got no fight... with any man who does what he's told. But when he don't, the machine breaks down. And when the machine breaks down, we break down. And I ain't gonna allow that... in any of you. Not one. [ hands pipe back and spits ]
Sgt. Barnes : Y'all love Elias. Oh, you wanna kick ass. Yeah. Well, here I am, all by my lonesome. And there ain't nobody gonna know. Six of you boys against me. Kill me. Huh. I shit on all of you.
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Sgt. Elias : I love this place at night. The stars... there's no right or wrong in them. They're just there.
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[ Chris has just gotten to Vietnam. Some passing veterans shout at him ]
Soldier 1 : You're gonna love the Nam.
Soldier 2 : For fucking ever.
Soldier 1 : You're gonna love the Nam.
Soldier 2 : For fucking ever.
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Sgt. Barnes : You all take a good look at this lump of shit. Remember what it looks like. You fuck up in a firefight... and I goddamn guarantee you a trip out of the bush - in a body bag! Out here, assholes, you keep your shit wired tight at all times! And that goes for you, shit-for-brains. You don't sleep on no fuckin' ambush! And the next sum'bitch I catch coppin Z's in the bush, I'm personally gonna take an interest in seein' him suffer. I shit you not. Doc, tag him and bag him!
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[ King is writing a letter to his girlfriend ]
Francis : It ain't D-E-R-E, it's D-E-A-R. And "Sarah" ain't got no two R's, King. Damn you're dumb.
King : It don't make no difference, she know what I mean. She don't read too good nohow.
Francis : It ain't D-E-R-E, it's D-E-A-R. And "Sarah" ain't got no two R's, King. Damn you're dumb.
King : It don't make no difference, she know what I mean. She don't read too good nohow.
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[ Refering to Vietnam ]
Chris Taylor : Somebody once wrote: "Hell is the impossibility of reason." That's what this place feels like. Hell.
Chris Taylor : Somebody once wrote: "Hell is the impossibility of reason." That's what this place feels like. Hell.
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[ Elias, Barnes and O'Neill argue about what to do with the "cherries." ]
Sgt. Elias : They don't know shit, Barnes, and chances are we're gonna run into something. Think about it.
Sgt. O'Neill : That's just great Bob. Whadda you want me to do? Send one of my guys out to get zapped so some lameass just in from the world can get his beauty sleep? Nah!
Sgt. Elias : Hey O'Neill, take a break! You don't have to be a prick every day of you life, you know.
Sgt. Elias : They don't know shit, Barnes, and chances are we're gonna run into something. Think about it.
Sgt. O'Neill : That's just great Bob. Whadda you want me to do? Send one of my guys out to get zapped so some lameass just in from the world can get his beauty sleep? Nah!
Sgt. Elias : Hey O'Neill, take a break! You don't have to be a prick every day of you life, you know.
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Junior : Simple, free your mind and the ass will follow.
Bunny : Hey, I can dig it, man. When you smoke that shit everything kind of gets weird, you know what I mean? You heard that story about the gooks putting chemicals in the grass so we don't fight and become pacifists?
Junior : Yeah, but don't you worry Bunny, 'cos you're used to kill anyway, man.
Bunny : Yeah, but I still like a piece of pussy once in a while. Ain't nothing like a piece of pussy, except maybe the Indy 500.
Junior : The only way you get some pussy man, is if a bitch dies and wills it to you. And then, maybe!
Bunny : Hey, I can dig it, man. When you smoke that shit everything kind of gets weird, you know what I mean? You heard that story about the gooks putting chemicals in the grass so we don't fight and become pacifists?
Junior : Yeah, but don't you worry Bunny, 'cos you're used to kill anyway, man.
Bunny : Yeah, but I still like a piece of pussy once in a while. Ain't nothing like a piece of pussy, except maybe the Indy 500.
Junior : The only way you get some pussy man, is if a bitch dies and wills it to you. And then, maybe!
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[ During the interrogation of a village chief after the platoon finds hidden weapons ]
Pvt. Gator Lerner : He says they had no choice... says the NVA killed their old honcho when he said no, and I say all the rice is theirs.
Sgt. Barnes : Oh, bull SHIT, Lerner!
Pvt. Gator Lerner : He says they had no choice... says the NVA killed their old honcho when he said no, and I say all the rice is theirs.
Sgt. Barnes : Oh, bull SHIT, Lerner!
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[ Manny has been killed and the platoon is looking for revenge ]
Chris Taylor : The village, which had stood for maybe a thousand years, didn't know we were coming that day. If they had, they would've run. Barnes was the eye of our rage. And through him, our captain Ahab, we would set things right again. That day we loved him.
Chris Taylor : The village, which had stood for maybe a thousand years, didn't know we were coming that day. If they had, they would've run. Barnes was the eye of our rage. And through him, our captain Ahab, we would set things right again. That day we loved him.
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Sgt. Elias : What happened today was just the beginning. We're gonna lose this war.
Chris Taylor : Come on! You really think so? Us?
Sgt. Elias : We've been kicking other peoples asses for so long I figured it's time we got ours kicked.
Chris Taylor : Come on! You really think so? Us?
Sgt. Elias : We've been kicking other peoples asses for so long I figured it's time we got ours kicked.
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Chris Taylor : Day by day I struggle to maintain not only my strength but also my sanity. It's all a blur. I have no energy to write. I don't know what's right or wrong anymore. The morale of the men is low, a civil war in the platoon. Half the men with Elias, half with Barnes. There's a lot of suspicion and hate. I can't believe we're fighting each other, when we should be fighting them.
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[ Refering to Elias ]
Rhah : And if there's a heaven and God I hope there is, I know he's sitting up there, drunk as a fucking monkey and smoking shit. Because he left his pains down here.
Rhah : And if there's a heaven and God I hope there is, I know he's sitting up there, drunk as a fucking monkey and smoking shit. Because he left his pains down here.
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King : [ Watching the ambush party leave into the jungle ] I'm glad I ain't going with them. Somewhere out there is the beast and he's hungry tonight.
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Bunny : You know Junior, some of the things we've done, man... I don't feel like we've done something wrong. Sometimes, man... I get this bad feeling. I told the padre the truth man, I like it here. Get to do what you want, nobody fucks with you. The only worry you got is dying. And if that happens you won't know about it anyway. So what the fuck man?
Junior : Shit! I gotta be in this hole with you man? I just know I shouldn't come.
Junior : Shit! I gotta be in this hole with you man? I just know I shouldn't come.
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Sgt. Barnes : What's the matter boy? He ain't gonna bite you. That's a good gook; good and dead.
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Sgt. Elias : Police up your spare rounds and frags. Don't leave nothin' for the dinks.
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