Steve Butler Quotes in Heaven & Earth (1993)

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  • Steve Butler: [after nearly killing Le with his gun after an argument] I can't! I can't live without you! They got me so tied up.

    Le Ly: Who's doing this to you?

    Steve Butler: The Marine Corps. I'm not going to get the civilian job I promised you. I'm up for an Admin Board, and they're going to kick me out. You don't know the half of it, darling. You don't know the half of it.

    Le Ly: Tell me. You must tell me all. You'll feel better.

    Steve Butler: I'm a killer, baby. I killed so many over there. I got so good at it they assigned me to the projects. You know, Black Ops. We killed sometimes three or four a night. All kinds. Rice farmers. Rich fat cats bankrolling the VC unit. It was a complete mind fuck. Psy Ops, baby, knives, rip a man's guts out, take a bite out of his liver and drop it on his chest so he won't get to Buddha heaven. Leave him laying on the road. Cut his nuts out, stuff 'em in his mouth, sew his lips up like Frankenstein, and leave him laying in bed in his house. Well, blame it on the VC. I didn't care. Drugs, running guns, slavery, you name it. One time this guy killed a gook girl I was shacking with. We weren't supposed to fraternize with any Viet nationalists outside channels, so they killed her. They cut her throat from ear to ear. I was in hell, baby. I was in pure hell. And maybe I went dinky dau over there. Maybe I am nuts. Who the fuck knows? The more I killed, the more they gave me to kill. You know what it's like doing that? It's like being eaten alive from the inside out by a belly full of sharks. You gotta keep hitting, you gotta keep moving, because if you ever stop, the fucking sharks will eat you alive. Well, one day they cut me off. And then one day I found you. And it all changed, I thought. But baby, nothing ever changes. So fuck me, right?

    [tries to kill himself with his own gun, but Le Ly stops him and hurls it aside]

    Le Ly: No! No! It's okay.

    Steve Butler: [sobbing] What's gonna happen to me, baby? I'm scared to death!

    Le Ly: I don't know. I, too, was a soldier in past lives. I hurt many people. I lied, I stealed, I hate. Now I pay. Soldiers try to kill my life. Long time, I have no man love me. No respect. It's my fate. We're the same, Steve. We have made bad karma. And our soul debt will come due, if not in this life, then in another. But we can't give up. We must try. Different skin, same suffering.

    Steve Butler: Le, can you love me? Can you *really* love me?

  • Steve Butler: [motioning the helicopter] Get the fuck outta here!

  • Steve Butler: [showing Le Ly some photographs] This is Mom's eighth dog. She has the eight ugliest dogs in the United States!

    [he and Le Ly laugh]

  • Steve Butler: [notices a little photograph on table] Is this your little brother?

    Le Ly: What?

    Steve Butler: Is this handsome little boy your relative?

    Le Ly: My son.

    Steve Butler: Ah, of course he is!

    [laughs]

    Steve Butler: He looks a lot like you. A lot of spirit around the eyes.

  • Le Ly: You still here?

    Steve Butler: You said I could rest.

  • Steve Butler: [Kneels in front of Le Ly] Even if I could speak your language I couldn't tell you how I feel about you.

  • Steve Butler: She knows exactly what she's got, and what she's left behind!

  • Alice: Let me guess: 40, married, marketing, two kids.

    Steve Butler: 38, stripper/waitress,but born to be a singer.

    Alice: Fuck you, I'm a teacher!

    Steve Butler: No, I was talking about me. You wanna see a dance? It's 100 bucks.

  • Steve Butler: Fuck you money is the ultimate liberator.

  • Steve Butler: I don't know what to say anymore. But where we are now, where we're headed! We might be betting more than we think. Everything that we have is on the table now. And that's just not ours to lose.

  • [last lines]

    Steve Butler: You the owner of this place?

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