Movie Quotes

Guard at Liberty Gate:
[after catching James coming back into the camp after having snuck out] What were you doing out there?


Staff Sergeant William James:
Visiting a whorehouse.


Guard at Liberty Gate:
Okay. If I let you back in, will you tell me where it is exactly?

Staff Sergeant William James:
There's enough bang in there to blow us all to Jesus. If I'm gonna die, I want to die comfortable.

Sergeant JT Sanborn:
I'm ready to die, James.


Staff Sergeant William James:
Well, you're not gonna die out here, bro.


Sergeant JT Sanborn:
Another two inches, shrapnel zings by; slices my throat- I bleed out like a pig in the sand. Nobody'll give a shit. I mean my parents- they care- but they don't count, man. Who else? I don't even have a son.


Staff Sergeant William James:
Well, you're gonna have plenty of time for that, amigo.


Sergeant JT Sanborn:
Naw, man. I'm done. I want a son. I want a little boy, Will. I mean, how do you do it, you know? Take the risk?


Staff Sergeant William James:
I don't know. I guess I don't think about it.


Sergeant JT Sanborn:
But you realize every time you suit up, every time we go out, it's life or death. You roll the dice, and you deal with it. You recognize that don't you?


Staff Sergeant William James:
Yea... Yea, I do. But I don't know why.

[sighs]


Staff Sergeant William James:
I don't know, JT. You know why I'm that way?


Sergeant JT Sanborn:
No, I don't.

Colonel John Cambridge:
[waving] So long. Thank you.

Staff Sergeant William James:
This box is full of stuff that almost kill me.

Contractor Team Leader:
We have a flat tire, can you help us?


Staff Sergeant William James:
Sure, yeah. You got any spares?


Contractor Team Leader:
Well, we have spares, but we used up our wrench.


Staff Sergeant William James:
How do you use up a wrench?


Contractor Team Leader:
Well, the uh, guy over there with the red thing on his head, he threw it at someone.


Staff Sergeant William James:
Ha ha! Alright.

[gives thumbs up to Eldridge]


Contractor Team Leader:
Thank you.

[introduces the soldiers]


Contractor Team Leader:
This is Chris. This is the wrench man.


Staff Sergeant William James:
Hello, Wrench Man.


Contractor Team Leader:
That's Jimmy.


Sergeant JT Sanborn:
You know you can shoot people here. You don't have to throw wrenches.


Contractor Feisal:
Fuck off!

Opening Quote by Chris Hedges:
The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.

Colonel Reed:
You the guy in the flaming car, Sergeant James?


Staff Sergeant William James:
Afternoon, sir. Uh, yes, sir.


Colonel Reed:
Well, that's just hot shit. You're a wild man, you know that?


Staff Sergeant William James:
Uh, yes, sir.


Colonel Reed:
He's a wild man. You know that? I want to shake your hand.


Staff Sergeant William James:
Thank you, sir.


Colonel Reed:
Yeah. How many bombs have you disarmed?


Staff Sergeant William James:
Uh, I'm not quite sure.


Colonel Reed:
Segeant?


Staff Sergeant William James:
Yes, sir.


Colonel Reed:
I asked you a question.


Staff Sergeant William James:
Eight hundred seventy-three, sir.


Colonel Reed:
Eight hundred! And seventy-three. Eight hundred! And seventy-three. That's just hot shit. Eight hundred and seventy-three.


Staff Sergeant William James:
Counting today, sir, yes.


Colonel Reed:
That's gotta be a record. What's the best way to... go about disarming one of these things?


Staff Sergeant William James:
The way you don't die, sir.


Colonel Reed:
That's a good one. That's spoken like a wild man. That's good.

Spc. Owen Eldridge:
Aren't you glad the Army has all these tanks parked here? Just in case the Russians come and we have to have a big tank battle?


Sergeant JT Sanborn:
I'd rather be on the side with the tanks, just in case, than not have them.


Spc. Owen Eldridge:
Yeah, but they don't do anything. I mean, anyone comes alongside a Humvee, we're dead. Anybody even looks at you funny, we're dead. Pretty much the bottom line is, if you're in Iraq, you're dead. How's a fucking tank supposed to stop that?


Sergeant JT Sanborn:
Would you shut the fuck up, Owen?


Spc. Owen Eldridge:
Sorry. Just tryin' to scare the new guy.

Sergeant JT Sanborn:
I can't get it in.


Sgt. Matt Thompson:
What do you mean you can't get it in? Pretend it's your dick.


Sergeant JT Sanborn:
How about I pretend it's your dick?


Sgt. Matt Thompson:
Well in that case you'll never get it in.

Staff Sergeant William James:
[Speaking to his son] You love playing with that. You love playing with all your stuffed animals. You love your Mommy, your Daddy. You love your pajamas. You love everything, don't ya? Yea. But you know what, buddy? As you get older... some of the things you love might not seem so special anymore. Like your Jack-in-a-Box. Maybe you'll realize it's just a piece of tin and a stuffed animal. And the older you get, the fewer things you really love. And by the time you get to my age, maybe it's only one or two things. With me, I think it's one.

Staff Sergeant William James:
Everyone's scarred about something, you know?

Staff Sergeant William James:
You'll get it, though. You'll get it.

Staff Sergeant William James:
[to Iraqi street kid] I wanna buy another DVD. But, if it's shaky - look at me - out of focus, or any way not 100%, I'm gonna chop off your head with a dull knife. How do you feel about - I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding

[hands him his money]


Staff Sergeant William James:
you're a good kid,

[hugging kid's head]


Staff Sergeant William James:
you're a good kid, aren't ya...