Heartbreak Ridge (1986) - Quotes

Military Brotherhood in Action

Highway, Choozoo: [Grinning and heading out] Semper Fi, sir.

Colonel Meyers: Ooh-rah...

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Impending Military Operation Announcement

Stitch Jones: Yeah, Gunney, what's the deal, man? This is another bullshit alert, right?

Thomas Highway: We're going to war, men.

Stitch Jones: Mother of Jesus.

Thomas Highway: We're going to assist in an operation on the island of Grenada to rescue of the American citizens there.

Stitch Jones: The island of what?

Major Malcolm A. Powers: Grenada. It's a Caribbean island also known as "The Isle of Spice". It's 86 nautical miles from the northeast coast of Venezuela. Now our mission is to helo-cast into a small bay into the west side of the island and recon in advance before the Marine landing force.

Stitch Jones: Yes, yes, I can do that, man. I forgot my suntan oil.

Thomas Highway: Come on, it's time to earn your pay. Let's go.

Lieutenant Ring: Come on, pick it up. Let's go.

PA Announcer: Now hear this. Now hear this. Flight deck, prepare to launch helo. Prepare to launch helo.

Major Malcolm A. Powers: Over there!

Thomas Highway: Your glasses. Get ready!

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Debate on Loyalty and Comfort in Conflict

Webster: I thought you guys didn't like Highway. I heard that AK-47 fire comin from your A.O. Don't you guys wanna go back to the way things were? Nobody fuckin with you?

Stitch Jones: Looks to me like nobody's gonna fuck with us the way things are right now.

Webster: There's weekend liberty in it for all of y'all. I'll start with you.

Profile: [flatly] I got nothin to say.

Webster: You.

Quinones: [grins] No habla inglés.

Webster: Things are gonna go hard on all of you if you don't cooperate.

Fragetti: We ain't got nothin to say to you, Webster.

Stitch Jones: [imitates Gunny Highway's deep voice] Why don't you take your ass back to that faggot 1st Platoon of yours? And, uh- Don't go away mad. Just go away. You been told.

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The Significance of Heartbreak Ridge

Stitch Jones: I ain't never heard of no Heartbreak Ridge.

Choozoo: It ain't in any of the history books. Just a little piece of war. Hell, the place didn't even have a name; just a number. Stony Jackson took one look up and said, "Ladies, if it don't kill us, it'll surely break our hearts.

Stitch Jones: Who's Stony Jackson?

Choozoo: [[w:Medal of Honor|Medal of Honor] He was our platoon sergeant. He was the one recommended Highway for his Congressional ].

Stitch Jones: [[Medal of Honor|CMH] Gunny Highway won the ]?

Choozoo: [[w:Human wave attack|human wave] He charged two machine gun nests by himself. Didn't sleep for three days. The final ], he held off almost singlehandedly. When it was over, there's me, Stony Jackson, Tom Highway. We're the only ones still alive.

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Controversy Surrounds Contest Results and Reactions

Roy Jennings: Tonight's winner is Miss Sarita Dwayne!

Stitch Jones: Wait a minute, man. That's bullshit.

Thomas Highway: I don't play none of this jail give-up-the-booty bullshit. Powers will thin-slice your prick as soon as the war goes.

Aggie: What a dirty mess.

Thomas Highway: What a dirty, stinking mess. He needs you, Aggie.

Aggie: Until the next war.

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Chain of Command and Request Forms

Major Powers: Fill out the proper request forms and send it through the chain of command.

Highway: [''In disbelief''] Request forms?

Major Powers: Ten-hut!

Colonel Meyers: At ease, men.

Major Powers: Major Malcom Powers, sir. Annapolis, Class of 71.

Colonel Meyers: How are your men doing, Major?

Major Powers: My men are ready to fight to the death to protect our country, sir.

Colonel Meyers: [A beat as Colonel Meyers, a combat veteran, looks at him; ''Notices Highway''] Let's hope that won't be necessary. Have we ever served together?

Highway: I don't know, sir. Sergeant Major Choozoo and I were in 2nd Battalion, 7th in 68.

Colonel Meyers: I had a rifle company in 1st Battalion, 7th.

Highway: [smiles] Well, we sure as hell chewed some of the same dirt, sir.

Colonel Meyers: That's for sure. What's your assessment of this alert?

Highway: It's a clusterfuck.

Colonel Meyers: Say again?

Highway: Marines are fighting men. They shouldn't be sitting around on their sorry asses filling out request forms for equipment they should already have.

Colonel Meyers: Interesting observation, Gunny. Carry on, Major.

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Tension and Chaos in a Combat Situation

Frageti: What the hell was that?

Highway: You're dead, Marine! You just stepped on four booby traps and blew your legs off! We'll have to send out a search party for your testicles! Now where the hell's your backup?

Frageti: Profile.

Highway: [Turns back to the three Marines who tripped over the rope] What the fuck good are you doing back there? Without any cover fire I get my ass blown off! While you guys are sitting there pumpin the neighbor's dog we get every swingin dick in this platoon killed!

Stitch Jones: Hey, chill out, man; that's what we're here for.

Highway: Say what?

Stitch Jones: We're here for that! We've ambushed Major Powers three times and always right here; we know what we're doing.

Highway: Well, Shit-For-Brains, who says we're gonna ambush Major Powers right here?

Stitch Jones: Hey, you didn't hear Lieutenant Ring? Major Powers wants us to die in a loud, grotesque, military manner.

Highway: I don't give a fuck about Major Powers! My job is to keep you men alive. Let's move on.

Major Powers: We should be coming to the ambush site over the next hill.

Sergeant Major Choozoo: [sarcastic] Sure does help knowin where and when you're gonna be hit, sir.

Highway: [''they let First Platoon walk farther into the ambush''] Easy. Give em a few more yards, then we'll nail the coffin shut. Okay now.

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Mind Over Matter in Conflict

Stitch Jones: You see, it's all a question of mind over matter. We no longer mind, cause, you don't matter. You've been voted out of office, baby.

Highway: Mister Jones, you fall out in that street or I'm gonna kick your ass right off this fuckin planet.

Stitch Jones: Oh, I don't think so, babe. Swede!

Recon Platoon: [Chanting loudly] Swede, Swede, Swede, Swede, Swede!

Stitch Jones: Uh, Gunny, I'd like you to meet my big friend, Swede Johanson. Swede, say something charming to the man.

Swede Johanson: I'm gonna rip your head off and shit down your neck.

Highway: [Swede does; punches Swede, knocking him to the floor] Stick your chin up. Higher. Now get your ass out in that street, ladies. Right this second.

Stitch Jones: [hastily] Uh, I'll catch you later, Swede!

Dating Expectations and Misunderstandings

Tom Highway: Hey, baby.

Little Mary Jackson: Well, I called his wife--

Tom Highway: Do you fool around on the first date?

Little Mary Jackson: Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!

Little Mary Jackson: Damn you, girl. Do you know how to write and call?

Tom Highway: Well, I didn't want you to cause any sleepless nights thinking about me.

Little Mary Jackson: I'll get you a beer.

Tom Highway: Great. I could use one. Sure, you look great. They don't make them like you anymore, sweetheart.

Little Mary Jackson: (sits at bar) Oh, hell, sure they do. But if you want a lot from a woman, you have to give a lot.

Tom Highway: Yes, it's this kid. It seemed that marriage and the Marine Corps weren't too compatible.

Little Mary Jackson: Panther piss. The best years of my life were with a Marine. Now if I was a little younger, I'd make you eat your words and curl your toes.

Tom Highway: Yeah, I bet you could.

Little Mary Jackson: (smiling) Aggie always kept a smile on your face.

Tom Highway: That was pain.

Little Mary Jackson: Tom, she's in town.

Tom Highway: Oh, well, I figured as much. But if she's looking for more alimony, she's in real trouble this time. Because I got myself so broke, I couldn't get myself out of sight if it took a quarter to go around the world.

Little Mary Jackson: (smiling) She's cocktailing over at the Palace.

Tom Highway: Oh, well, I figure she'd be married to a general by now. Oh, can I get my old room back?

Little Mary Jackson: Hell, yes. You're going to see her?

Tom Highway: Hell no. Can I run a tab on this?

Little Mary Jackson: Hell, no.

Tom Highway: (laughing) Tough woman, tough woman.

Military Banter in Heartbreak Ridge

Sergeant Major Choozoo: [''Entering the office''] Hey, crotch rot, you gonna slurp my lifer's juice out of my own cup?

Gunnery Sergeant Highway: Yeah, I should've gotten shots beforehand.

Choozoo: If your brain was half as quick as your mouth, skunk stool, you'd be a friggin twenty-star general by now.

Highway: And if I was half as ugly as you, Sergeant Major, I'd be a poster boy for a prophylactic.

Choozoo: [''Hugs Highway''] Still a mean and nasty bastard. God-damn good to see you, Tom! Back where you belong!

Highway: Hey, go easy on me, or else everybody's gonna think I'm spoken for.

Understanding the Enemy's Weaponry

Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Highway: [[AK-47] This is the ] assault rifle, the preferred weapon of your enemy, and it makes a distinctive sound when fired at you, so remember it.