Apocalypse Now Quotes

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• 1. Colonel Kurtz: Are my methods unsound?
  2. Capt. Benjamin Willard: I don't see any method at all, sir.
  3. Colonel Kurtz: I expected someone like you. What did you expect? Are you an assassin?
  4. Capt. Benjamin Willard: I'm a soldier.
  5. Colonel Kurtz: You're neither. You're an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks, to collect a bill.
  – Submitted by Jim C (7 months ago)
• 1. Lt. Col. Kilgore: Charlie don't surf!
  – Submitted by Alex K (8 months ago)
• 1. Soldier in Trench: Ain't you?!
  – Submitted by Jesse K (8 months ago)
• 1. Colonel Kurtz: I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream; that's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor... and surviving.
  – Submitted by Gonzalo D (8 months ago)
• 1. Lt. Col. Kilgore: This war's gonna end someday.
  – Submitted by John H (8 months ago)
• 1. Lt. Col. Kilgore: How are you feeling Jimmy?
  2. Kilgore's Machine-Gunner: Like a mean motherfucker sir!
  – Submitted by Abhinav K (9 months ago)
• 1. Lt. Col. Kilgore: Charlie don't surf!
  – Submitted by Ronni R (10 months ago)
• 1. Capt. Benjamin Willard: I wanted a mission and for my sins they gave me one.
  – Submitted by Sam R (10 months ago)
• 1. Capt. Benjamin Willard: Never get out of the boat. Absolutely god damn right.
  – Submitted by John G (12 months ago)
• 1. Colonel Kurtz: You are neither. You are an errand boy sent by grocery clerks to collect a bill.
  – Submitted by John G (12 months ago)
• 1. Lt. Carlsen: You're in the asshole of the world Captain.
  – Submitted by Pete H (12 months ago)
• 1. Colonel Kurtz: Are you an assassin?
  2. Capt. Benjamin Willard: I'm a soldier.
  3. Colonel Kurtz: You're neither. You're an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks, to collect a bill.
  – Submitted by Pete H (12 months ago)
• 1. Colonel Kurtz: The horror.
  – Submitted by Robin S (13 months ago)
• 1. Capt. Benjamin Willard: I was given a mission...and for my sins they gave me one.
  – Submitted by Teddy S (15 months ago)
• 1. Colonel Kurtz: This is the end.
  – Submitted by Leon H (15 months ago)
• 1. Colonel Kurtz: You have to have men who are moral... and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordial instincts to kill without feeling... without passion... without judgment... without judgment! Because it's judgment that defeats us.
  – Submitted by Alexandar T (15 months ago)
• 1. Lt. Col. Kilgore: Charlie don't surf!
  – Submitted by Benjamin-Ian A (16 months ago)
• 1. Lt. Col. Kilgore: I love the smell of napalm in the morning. Smells like... victory.
  – Submitted by Benjamin-Ian A (16 months ago)
• 1. Playmate of the Year: Who are you?
  2. Clean: I'm next, ma'am.
  – Submitted by Lukas F (17 months ago)
• 1. Capt. Benjamin Willard: Everyone gets everything he wants. I wanted a mission, and for my sins, they gave me one. Brought it up to me like room service.
  – Submitted by Kevin C (18 months ago)
• 1. Chef: Never get out of the boat.
  – Submitted by Steven W (18 months ago)
• 1. Colonel Kurtz: Are my methods unsound?
  2. Capt. Benjamin Willard: I don't see any method at all sir.
  – Submitted by Joseph W (18 months ago)
• 1. Colonel Kurtz: [voiceover] The horror... the horror.
  – Submitted by Evan R (21 months ago)
• 1. Capt. Benjamin Willard: Yes sir. Insane sir. Obviously insane.
  – Submitted by Alex S (21 months ago)
• 1. Lt. Col. Kilgore: I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... [sniffing, pondering]
  2. Lt. Col. Kilgore: ...victory. Someday this war's gonna end. [suddenly walks off]
  – Submitted by Connor G (21 months ago)
• 1. Chief: Captain. You're giving away our fuel for a Playmate of the Month?
  2. Capt. Benjamin Willard: Nope. Playmate of the Year, Chief.
  – Submitted by Jorge S (22 months ago)
• 1. Capt. Benjamin Willard: Saigon... Shit... I'm still only in Saigon... Every time I think I'm gonna wake up back in the jungle. When I was home after my first tour it was worse. I'd wake up and there'd be nothing. I hardly said a word to my wife until I said yes to a divorce. When I was here I wanted to be there. When I was there, all I could think of was getting back into the jungle. I'm here a week now, waiting for a mission, getting softer. Every minute I stay in this room I get weaker. And every minute Charlie squats in the bush he gets stronger. Each time I look around the walls move in a little tighter...
  – Submitted by Jorge S (22 months ago)
• 1. Colonel Kurtz: But we must kill them. We must... incinerate them. Pig after pig, cow after cow, village after village, army after army... and they call me an assassin. What do you call it when the assassins accuse the assassin? They lie... They lie, and we have to be merciful for those who lie... Those nabobs, I hate them. I do hate them.
  – Submitted by Jorge S (22 months ago)
• 1. Lt. Col. Kilgore: I am beyond their timid lying morality, and so I am beyond caring.
  – Submitted by Daniel W (22 months ago)
• 1. Capt. Benjamin Willard: Everyone gets everything he wants. I wanted a mission, and for my sins they gave me one.
  – Submitted by Owen J (22 months ago)
• 1. Lt. Col. Kilgore: I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
  – Submitted by Kerby H (22 months ago)
• 1. Colonel Kurtz: We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders won' t allow them to write 'fuck' on their airplanes because it's obscene!
  – Submitted by Sam B (22 months ago)
• 1. Colonel Kurtz: The horror... the horror.
  – Submitted by Chris D (23 months ago)
• 1. Colonel Kurtz: You're neither. You're an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks, to collect a bill.
  – Submitted by Chris D (23 months ago)
• 1. Capt. Benjamin Willard: They said you'd gone totally insane and that your methods were... unsound.
  2. Colonel Kurtz: Do you think my methods are unsound?
  3. Capt. Benjamin Willard: I don't see any method at all.
  – Submitted by Stu S (23 months ago)
• 1. Lt. Col. Kilgore: Charlie don't surf.
  – Submitted by Debbie N (24 months ago)
• 1. Colonel Kurtz: We must kill them. We must incinerate them. Pig after pig... cow after cow... village after village... army after army...
  – Submitted by Chris P (2 years ago)
• 1. Chief: Why do all you guys sit on your helmets?
  – Submitted by Chris P (2 years ago)
• 1. Lt. Col. Kilgore: I love the smell of Napalm in the morning!
  – Submitted by Tyler C (2 years ago)