Disabled Veteran Quotes in The Fisher King (1991)

Disabled Veteran: Didja hear that Jimmy Nickles got picked up yesterday?

Jack Lucas: Oh, yeah?

Disabled Veteran: Yeah. He got caught pissin' on a bookstore. Man is a *pig*. No excuse for that.

[lady drops coins in his cup]

Disabled Veteran: Thank you, baby. It's social anarchy when people start pissing on bookstores.

[man throws coins on the ground near his feet, which Disabled Veteran cannot reach]

Jack Lucas: Asshole. He didn't even look at you.

Disabled Veteran: He's payin' so he don't have to look. See... guy goes to work every day, eight hours a day, seven days a week. Gets his nuts so tight in a vice that he starts questioning the very fabric of his existence. Then one day, 'bout quitting time, Boss calls him into the office and says, "Hey Bob, whyncha come on in here and kiss my ass for me, will you?" Well, he says, "Hell with it. I don't care what happens, I just want to see the expression on his face as I jab this pair of scissors into his arm."

[sighs]

Disabled Veteran: Then he thinks of me. He says, "Waitaminit. I got both my arms, I got both my legs. At least I'm not begging for a living. Sure enough, Bob's gonna put those scissors down and pucker right up. See, I'm what you call kind of a "moral traffic light", really. I'm like sayin', "Red! Go no further! Boooo-ee boooo-ee boooo-ee..."