Thoughts on Year of the Dragon

 

via IMDB

"I'm tired of all this 'Chinese this, Chinese that.' You people, you think gambling, extortion, corruption are kosher? Because it's 1,000 years old? Well, all this 1,000-year-old stuff, it's a lot of shit to me. This is America you're living in and it's 200 years old. So you better get your clocks fixed. You're not special, and you're not beyond the law ... any more than the Puerto Ricans and the Polacks. So we're all gonna obey the law the way it says. So start doing something about it, and fast, or you're all gonna suffer. You can believe that."

Thoughts on Born on the Fourth of July

via The Fan Carpet

"Sometimes I wish, I wish I'd - The first time I got hit, I was shot in the foot. I could have laid down, I mean - who gives a fuck now if I was a hero or not? I was paralyzed, castrated that day; why? It was all so - stupid! I'd have my dick and my balls now, and some days, Timmy - some days I think I'd give everything I believe in - everything I got, all my values, just to have my body back again, just to be whole again. But I'm not whole; I never will be, and that's - that's the way it is, isn't it?"

" ... For Christ's sake, Ronnie, it's your birthday. You're alive. You made it! Smile."