Soldier #1 Quotes in Starship Troopers (1997)

[first lines]

Newsreel announcer: Young people from all over the globe are joining up to fight for the future.

Soldier #1: I'm doing my part.

Soldier #2: I'm doing my part.

Soldier #3: I'm doing my part.

Young kid dressed up as a soldier: I'm doing my part too.

[Soldiers laugh]

Newsreel announcer: They're doing their part. Are you? Join the Mobile Infantry and save the world. Service guarantees citizenship.

[3 Soviet soldiers on patrol in the highlands of Arapho National Forest have found an arrow at the side of the road]

Yuri: [speaking Russian] Look. Look what I've found. An Indian arrow.

Soldier #1: [notices it is a manufactured arrow] I did not know these Indians used steel.

Yuri: Sure, you fool. They used the melted sabers of Federalist Cossacks.

Soldier #1: [notices the platic tail] Did these Indians work in plastic too?

Yuri: You idiot, this is bone, polished to a high sheen.

Yuri: [after spotting Toni & Erica] Stop!

Soldier #2: Watch out! She has a weapon.

Soldier #1: [speaking Russian] Stop, damn it!

[fires his AK-47]

Soldier #1: [Danny has managed to draw a bead on the first soldier & shoots him in the back with an arrow. The man screams & backs away from Erica, then tries to climb up the bank but is pulled off balance by Toni & Erica]

Soldier #1: [speaking Russian] Help me, comrades! I'm dying!

[Toni has managed to get control of the man's AK-47 & kills him with it. The second Soviet soldier goes down a hill when Robert steps out from behind a tree. As the soldier raises his AK-47 to shoot, Robert kills him with a shotgun blast. Yuri takes off toward the jeep with Daryl, Robert & Jed in pursuit and shooting at him]

Alexander Hartdegen: How did this happen?

Soldier #1: The moon. Come on, move it.

Alexander Hartdegen: That's impossible. What happened?

Soldier #1: What, you been living under a rock?

Alexander Hartdegen: Yes, I've been living under a rock! Now tell me...

Soldier #1: The demolitions for the lunar colony screwed up the orbit, okay? The moon's breaking up, all right? Now, come on.

Soldier 1: Sir, how do we write this one up? I mean, what do we say happened here?

soldier 2: Nothin'. Nothin' happened here at all. MIA. We didn't find anyone. d'you understand me?

Soldier #1: Now that Tom is dead, I want to use his body to create an android-like robot. I'd appreciate you approving my application.

Soldier #2: You're assured of success?

Soldier #1: Yes.

Soldier #2: Okay, it's approved.

Soldier #1: Where is Navarre?

Phillipe: Navarre? Navarre? Ah, yes. Big man, black horse. I thought I saw him ride south, toward Aquila

Soldier #2: Ha, then we ride north.

Phillipe: It isn't polite to assume that someone is a liar when you've only just met them.

Soldier #1: And yet you knew we would. We ride south.

Phillipe: [talking to God] I told the truth, Lord. How can I learn any moral lessons when you keep confusing me this way?

General Grawl: [to Chuck] Tell us your invasion plans! And don't bother taking over my mind. If you do, Captain Kisno has orders to shoot me. If you take over Captain Kisno's mind, Lieutenant Groit has orders to shoot him. If you take over Lieutenant Groit's mind, Sergeant York will shoot Captain Kisno, Lieutenant Groit and myself along with these three soldiers. Each man has a designated target in the squad. Should you succeed in taking over all of our minds, Corporal Hisk has orders to electrocute everyone. If this fails, the entire base is rigged to blow at the touch of a button.

Soldier #1: Uh, General, sir? Am I to shoot Hecknavar or Kolski?

Soldier #2: I shoot Kolski.

General Grawl: No. You shoot Meckavoy.

Soldier #2: Then who shoots Kolski?

Soldier #3: I can shoot myself.

General Grawl: That won't be necessary. Hecknavar, you shoot Kolski, Captain Kisno and and graze Corporal Hisk.

Soldier 1: There goes old blood-and-guts.

Soldier 2: Yeah, our blood, his guts.

Soldier 1: You seen my green socks?

Soldier 2: We all got green socks.

[Chris has just gotten to Vietnam. Some passing veterans shout at him]

Soldier 1: New meat! You dudes gonna love the Nam.

Soldier 2: For fucking ever.

Soldier 1: I'm not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of getting killed.

Soldier 2: That's as clear as mud.

Soldier 1: Well, which would you rather be done in by: a bayonet or a machine gun?

Soldier 2: Oh, a machine gun, naturally.

Soldier 1: Naturally, that's just my point. They're both pieces of steel ripping into your guts, only the machine gun is quicker, cleaner, and less painful, isn't it?

Soldier 2: Yeah, but what does that prove?

Soldier 1: That proves that most of us are more afraid of getting hurt than of getting killed. Look at Bernard. He panics when it comes to gas. Gas doesn't bother me a bit. He's seen photos of gas cases. Doesn't mean anything to me. But I'll tell you something though, I'd hate like the devil to be without my tin hat. But on the other hand I don't mind not having a tin hat for my tail. Why is that?

Soldier 2: You're darn tootin', because...

Soldier 1: Because I know a wound to the head would hurt much more than one to the tail. The tail is just meat but the head- ah, the head is all bone.

Soldier 2: That's...

Soldier 1: Tell me this. Aside from the bayonet, what are you most afraid of?

Soldier 2: High explosives.

Soldier 1: Exactly, and it's the same with me, because, because I know that it can chew you up worse than anything else. Look, just like I'm trying to tell you, if you're really afraid of dying you'd be living in a funk all the rest of your life because you know you've got to go someday, anyday. And besides...

Soldier 2: Yes?

Soldier 1: If it's death that you're really afraid of why should you care about what it is that kills you?

Soldier 2: Oh, you're too smart for me, Professor. All I know is, nobody wants to die.

[first lines]

Father: Please!

[is struck by butt of gun]

Soldier 1: Women to the left, men to the right.