Ace Levy Quotes in Starship Troopers (1997)

[Ace is having difficulty with throwing knives]

Ace Levy: Sir, I don't understand. Who needs a knife in a nuke fight anyway? All you gotta do is push a button, sir.

Career Sergeant Zim: Cease fire. Put your hand on that wall trooper. PUT YOUR HAND ON THAT WALL!

[Zim throws a knife and hits Ace's hand pinning it to the wall]

Career Sergeant Zim: The enemy can not push a button... if you disable his hand. Medic!

[after Rico gets a Dear John from Carmen]

Ace Levy: Funny how they always want to be friends after they rip your guts out.

General Owen: I had to evade capture. The lives of the Federation were at stake.

Ace Levy: [background] Fire in the Hole!

[explosion]

General Owen: [startled by the explosion] I have operational knowledge of what were up to out here.

Jean Rasczak: [to Diz] Dizzi, give me a status report.

Johnny Rico: [softly] She's working on it.

General Owen: [points to a dead soldier with his head hollowed out] Here, they did it to Farley, they got into his mind. They made Farley call Headquarters.

Johnny Rico: The distress call was a trap.

General Owen: They're just like us. They wanna know what makes us tick. They wanna know us, so they can KILL us!

Jean Rasczak: [into his radio] This is Rasczak, prepare for attack. I repeat, prepare for attack!

Johnny Rico: Who are these kids?

Ace Levy: We got reinforced. Most of them are fresh out of boot.

Johnny Rico: We're the old men, Ace.

Ace Levy: Shoot a nuke down a bug hole, you got a lot of dead bugs.

Ace Levy: Everybody needs a friend like me.

Ace Levy: Don't worry, you still got me to kick around.