Jarhead (2005)
Peter Sarsgaard: Alan Troy
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Quotes
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Troy : Fuck politics. We're here. All the rest is bullshit.
All Marines : Yeah.
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Troy : I love it out here, this is what I want - 'cause I count for something. Back home, I'd be working some nowhere job, nobody'd even know I was alive. 'We burn the fat off our souls,'... Hemingway said that.
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[repeated line]
Troy : Welcome to The Suck.
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Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford : You poor bastard. I bet your recruiter promised you a whole wide world of pussy, huh?
Kruger : Fuckin' eh. Cocksucker knew the price of every whore from Olangapo to Stockholm.
Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford : And here we are, headed to the desert - no pussy in a thousand miles.
Kruger : Fucked by the green weenie again!
Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford : Well, what would you be doing if you were a civilian? Staying up late, jacking off, playing Metroid - trying to get to that ninth level?
Troy : You know what happens when you get there?
[laughs]
Troy : Nothing. You just start all over again.
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Troy : We're the leopards... the lions. Those who will take our place will be jackals... hyenas - and all us leopards, lions, jackals, and sheep will go on thinking ourselves the salt of the earth.
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[in an NBC suit]
Troy : [in a Darth Vader voice] Luke, come over to the Dark Side.
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Troy : [to Anthony Swofford] We're going to fuckin' war.