Full Metal Jacket is a 1987 film directed, produced and written by Stanley Kubrick.
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1- “Tonight, you pukes will sleep with your rifles. You will give your rifle a girl’s name because this is the only pussy you people are going to get. Your days of finger-banging ol’ Mary-Jane Rottencrotch through her pretty pink panties are over! You’re married to this piece. This weapon of iron and wood. And you will be faithful.” (to the Marines’ recruits) – Gny. Sgt. Hartman, ‘Full Metal Jacket’.
2- “God has a hard-on for Marines because we kill everything we see! He plays His games, we play ours! To show our appreciation for so much power, we keep heaven packed with fresh souls!” – Gny. Sgt. Hartman, ‘Full Metal Jacket’.
3- “Your rifle is only a tool. It is a hard heart that kills. If your killer instincts are not clean and strong you will hesitate at the moment of truth. You will not kill. You will become dead marines and then you will be in a world of shit because marines are not allowed to die without permission.” – Gny. Sgt. Hartman, ‘Full Metal Jacket’.
4- “Most of you will go to Vietnam. Some of you will not come back. But always remember this: Marines die. That’s what we’re here for. But the Marine Corps lives forever. And that means you live forever.” (giving a speech to the graduating recruits) – Gny. Sgt. Hartman, ‘Full Metal Jacket’.
5- “Because I am hard, you will not like me. But the more you hate me, the more you will learn. I am hard, but I am fair. There is no racial bigotry here. I do not look down on niggers, kikes, wops or greasers. Here you are all equally worthless.” (during the introduction speech for the Marines’ training) – Gny. Sgt. Hartman, ‘Full Metal Jacket’.
6- “If you ladies leave my island, if you survive recruit training, you will be a weapon. You will be a minister of death praying for war. But until that day you are pukes. You are the lowest form of life on Earth. You are not even human fucking beings.” (during the introduction speech for the Marines’ training) – Gny. Sgt. Hartman, ‘Full Metal Jacket’.
7- “I don’t like the name Lawrence, only faggots and sailors are called Lawrence. From now on you’re Gomer Pyle.” – Gny. Sgt. Hartman, ‘Full Metal Jacket’.
8- “I bet you’re the kind of guy that would fuck a person in the ass and not even have the goddamn common courtesy to give him a reach-around. I’ll be watching you.” – Gny. Sgt. Hartman, ‘Full Metal Jacket’.
9- “You’re so ugly you could be a modern art masterpiece!” – Gny. Sgt. Hartman, ‘Full Metal Jacket’.
10- “Are you quitting on me? Well, are you? Then quit, you slimy f***ing walrus-looking piece of sh*t. Get the f*** off of my obstacle. Get the f*** down off of my obstacle. Now. Move it. I’m going to rip your balls off, so you cannot contaminate the rest of the world. I will motivate you, Private Pyle, if it short-d*cks every cannibal on the Congo.”– Gny. Sgt. Hartman, ‘Full Metal Jacket’.
11- “Oh that’s right, Private Pyle, don’t make any f***ing effort to get to the top of the f***ing obstacle. If God would have wanted you up there he would have miracled your ass up there by now, wouldn’t he?”– Gny. Sgt. Hartman, ‘Full Metal Jacket’.
12- “Today… is Christmas! There will be a magic show at zero-nine-thirty! Chaplain Charlie will tell you about how the free world will conquer Communism with the aid of God and a few marines! God has a hard-on for marines because we kill everything we see! He plays His games, we play ours! To show our appreciation for so much power, we keep heaven packed with fresh souls! God was here before the Marine Corps! So you can give your heart to Jesus, but your ass belongs to the Corps! Do you ladies understand?”– Gny. Sgt. Hartman, ‘Full Metal Jacket’.
13- “Were you born a fat, slimy, scumbag puke pieca’ sh*t Private Pyle, or did you have to work on it?”– Gny. Sgt. Hartman, ‘Full Metal Jacket’.
14- “I’ll bet you’re the kind of guy that would f*** a person in the ass and not even have the goddam common courtesy to give him a reach-around. I’ll be watching you”– Gny. Sgt. Hartman, ‘Full Metal Jacket’.
15- “The deadliest weapon in the world is a marine and his rifle. It is your killer instinct which must be harnessed if you expect to survive in combat. Your rifle is only a tool. It is a hard heart that kills. If your killer instincts are not clean and strong you will hesitate at the moment of truth. You will not kill. You will become dead marines and then you will be in a world of sh*t because marines are not allowed to die without permission. Do you maggots understand?”– Gny. Sgt. Hartman, ‘Full Metal Jacket’.
16- “Bullshit. It looks to me like the best part of you ran down the crack of your mama’s ass and ended up as a brown stain on the mattress.”– Gny. Sgt. Hartman, ‘Full Metal Jacket’.
17- “What is your major malfunction, numbnuts? Didn’t Mommy and Daddy show you enough attention when you were a child?”– Gny. Sgt. Hartman, ‘Full Metal Jacket’.
18- “Today you people are no longer maggots. Today you are Marines. You’re part of a brotherhood.”– Gny. Sgt. Hartman, ‘Full Metal Jacket’.
19- “Pyle, you climb obstacles like old people f***.”– Gny. Sgt. Hartman, ‘Full Metal Jacket’.
20- “Tonight, you men will sleep with your rifles. You will give your rifle a girl’s name because this is the only p*ssy you people are going to get. Your days of finger-banging ol’ Mary J. Rottencrotch through her pertty pink panties are over! You’re married to this piece. This weapon of iron and wood. And you will be faithful.”– Gny. Sgt. Hartman, ‘Full Metal Jacket’.
21- “Get your fat ass up there! I’ll bet if there was some p*ssy up there you would get up there, wouldn’t you?”– Gny. Sgt. Hartman, ‘Full Metal Jacket’.
22- “Private Joker is silly and ignorant, but he’s got guts. And guts is enough.”– Gny. Sgt. Hartman, ‘Full Metal Jacket’.
23- “Do you feel dizzy? Do you feel faint! Jesus H. Christ! I think you’ve got a hard-on!” – Gny. Sgt. Hartman, ‘Full Metal Jacket’.
24- “I wanted to see exotic Vietnam… the crown jewel of Southeast Asia. I wanted to meet interesting and stimulating people of an ancient culture… and kill them. I wanted to be the first kid on my block to get a confirmed kill!”– Pvt. J.T. ‘Joker’ Davis, ‘Full Metal Jacket’.
25- “A day without blood is like a day without sunshine.” – Pvt. J.T. ‘Joker’ Davis, ‘Full Metal Jacket’.
26- “I am so happy that I am alive, in one piece and short. I’m in a world of shit… yes. But I am alive. And I am not afraid.” (in Vietnam during the war)– Pvt. J.T. ‘Joker’ Davis, ‘Full Metal Jacket’.
27- “The dead know only one thing: it is better to be alive.”– Pvt. J.T. ‘Joker’ Davis, ‘Full Metal Jacket’.
28- “I hate Vietnam. There’s not one horse in this whole country. There’s not one horse in Vietnam. There’s somethin’ basically wrong with that.” – Pvt. Cowboy, ‘Full Metal Jacket’.
29- “What do I think about the U.S. involvement in the war? I think we should win it.” (being interviewed) – Animal Mother, ‘Full Metal Jacket’.
30- “- Gny. Sgt. Hartman: I am Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, your senior drill instructor. From now on you will speak only when spoken to, and the first and last words out of your filthy sewers will be “Sir”. Do you maggots understand that?
– Recruits: Sir, yes Sir.” -‘Full Metal Jacket’.
31- “- Gny. Sgt. Hartman: Private Pyle, if there is one thing in this world that I hate, it is an unlocked footlocker! You know that don’t you?
– Pvt. Leonard ‘Gomer Pyle’ Lawrence: Sir, yes, sir.
– Gny. Sgt. Hartman: If it wasn’t for dickheads like you, there wouldn’t be any thievery in this world, would there?” (after discovering Pvt. Leonard ‘Gomer Pyle’ Lawrence’s unlocked footlocker) -‘Full Metal Jacket’.
32- “- Pvt. J.T. ‘Joker’ Davis: I wanna slip my tube steak into your sister. What’ll you take in trade?
– Pvt. Cowboy: What do you got?” -‘Full Metal Jacket’.
33- “- Gny. Sgt. Hartman: As soon as your bunks are done, I want you two turds to clean the head.
– Pvt. J.T. ‘Joker’ Davis, Pvt. Cowboy: Sir, yes, sir.
– Gny. Sgt. Hartman: I want that head so sanitary and squared-away that the Virgin Mary herself would be proud to go in and take a dump.” -‘Full Metal Jacket’.
34- “- Gny. Sgt. Hartman: How tall are you, private?
– Pvt. Cowboy: Sir, five-foot-nine, sir.
– Gny. Sgt. Hartman: Five-foot-nine, I didn’t know they stacked shit that high!” -‘Full Metal Jacket’.
35- “- Gny. Sgt. Hartman: Get your fat ass up there! I’ll bet if there was some pussy up there you would get up there, wouldn’t you?
– Pvt. Leonard ‘Gomer Pyle’ Lawrence: Sir, yes sir!” (while Pvt. Leonard ‘Gomer Pyle’ Lawrence is on the obstacle course) -‘Full Metal Jacket’.
36- “- Pvt. ‘Snowball’ Brown: Sir, Private Brown, sir!
– Gny. Sgt. Hartman: Bullshit! From now on you’re Private Snowball. Do you like that name?
– Pvt. ‘Snowball’ Brown: Sir, yes, sir!
– Gny. Sgt. Hartman: Well there’s one thing that you won’t like, Private Snowball: they don’t serve fried chicken and watermelon on a daily basis in my mess hall.” (Pvt. ‘Snowball’ Brown is an African-American) -‘Full Metal Jacket’.
37- “- Poge Colonel: You write “Born to Kill” on your helmet and you wear a peace button. What’s that supposed to be, some kind of sick joke?
– Pvt. J.T. ‘Joker’ Davis: No, sir.
– Poge Colonel: You’d better get your head and your ass wired together, or I will take a giant shit on you.”-‘Full Metal Jacket’.
38- “- Pvt. J.T. ‘Joker’ Davis: How can you shoot women or children?
– Doorgunner: Easy! Ya just don’t lead ’em so much! Ain’t war hell?” -‘Full Metal Jacket’.
39- “- Gny. Sgt. Hartman: Where the hell are you from anyway, private?
– Pvt. Cowboy: Sir, Texas, sir.
– Gny. Sgt. Hartman: Holy dog shit! Texas? Only steers and queers come from Texas, Private Cowboy, and you don’t look much like a steer to me, so that kinda narrows it down.” -‘Full Metal Jacket’.
40-“- Gny. Sgt. Hartman: Do any of you people know where these individuals learned how to shoot? Private Joker?
– Pvt. J.T. ‘Joker’ Davis: Sir, in the Marines, sir!
– Gny. Sgt. Hartman: In the Marines! Outstanding! Those individuals showed what one motivated Marine and his rifle can do! And before you ladies leave my island, you will all be able to do the same thing!” (referring to Lee Harvey Oswald and mass murderer Charles Whitman) -‘Full Metal Jacket’.
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