Otis Young credited as playing...
Mulhall
- Buddusky: He don't stand a chance in Portsmouth, you know. You know that, don't you? Goddamn grunts, kickin' the shit outta him for eight years... he don't stand a chance.
- Mulhall: I don't want to hear about it.
- Buddusky: 'Maggot' this, 'maggot' that... Marines are really assholes, you know that? It takes a certain kind of a sadistic temperament to be a Marine.
- Meadows: If you're Catholic, do you think it's, uh, sacrilegious to chant?
- Buddusky: Did it get you laid?
- Meadows: No.
- Buddusky: Then, Meadows, what the fuck do you want to go on chanting for?
- Mulhall: Chant your ass off, kid. But any pussy you get in this world, you gonna have to pay for, one way or another.
- Buddusky: Hallelujah!
- Mulhall: I consider myself in jeopardy with you, man, understand? In jeopardy. This ain't no farewell party an' he ain't retirin'. Understand? He's a prisoner an' we're takin' 'im to the jailhouse. An' you have a tendency to forget that. You're a menace, man. You ain't no simple shit, Bad-Ass, you're a motherfuckin' menace. But from now on, MAA can go piss up a rope! You ain't no honcho! An' I wanna hear no more of this horseshit psychology jive! No more turnin' that boy's head around to prove what a fuckin' big man you are! You're a lifer like me! Navy's the best thing ever happened to me, an' I don't want'cha to fuck me up, ya understand?
- Mulhall: Tell you what, mister citizen bartender. You can take your beers and shove 'em up your ass sideways. Can you dig it?
- Mulhall: When you're in the Navy, shitbird, and you're in transit, nobody knows where the fuck ya are. Now go tell that MAA to fuck himself; I ain't goin' on no shit detail!
- Meadows: Hey, you guys mind if I say somethin'? That guy at the bar, why did you get so mad at him? I don't blame him not givin' me a beer.
- Buddusky: Hey, don't you never get mad at nobody?
- Meadows: Well, sure I do, yeah.
- Mulhall: Who do you get mad at?
- Meadows: Not at somebody who's doing their job.
- Buddusky: Who, then?
- Meadows: Injustice.
- Buddusky: Bullshit! You never get mad at nobody. You're just a pussy!
- Meadows: I do too get mad.
- Mulhall: Did you ever get mad at the old man for what he done to you?
- Meadows: Well, he was just...
- Buddusky: ...doin' his job. Hey, they're gonna take eight years outta your life, man.
- Meadows: Six years. You said six!
- Buddusky: Hey, what the fuck difference does it make? You don't even care about it.
- Mulhall: Come on, Badass, that don't help him.
- Buddusky: Fuck help, fuck fair! Fuck injustice! Don't you ever just wanna fuckin' whomp and stomp on someone, bite off their ear, just to do it...? I mean just to do it, just to get it out of your system?
- Mulhall: [Mulhall and Buddusky are making small talk, waiting for Meadows who is being serviced by a prostitute] You ever been married?
- Buddusky: Not so you'd notice.
- Buddusky: [after a pause] Yeah... once. A little girl in Torrance. You know where that is?
- Mulhall: Huh uh.
- Buddusky: It's near San Pedro on the way to Terminal Island, you know?
- Buddusky: Dottie Brown... She had great tits, and wore angora sweaters all the time. She wanted me to go to trade school and become a TV repair man. Driving around in all that smog and shit, fixing TVs out of the back of a VW bus.
- Buddusky: [looking depressed] I just couldn't do it.
- Meadows: I do remember something I got mad at. Something when I was in the brig, a Marine did.
- Buddusky: What happened? Grunts beat you up?
- Meadows: Yeah... but that didn't get me mad.
- Buddusky: Well, goddamn it, what *did* get you mad?
- Meadows: This Marine guard... he asked me if I believed in Jesus Christ. And I said, "Yeah." And he said that from now on, *he* was Jesus Christ, and I shouldn't ever forget it.
- Buddusky: What did you do? Did you hit him?
- Meadows: Now can you imagine that? That's awful!
- Buddusky: Did you cold-cock him?
- Meadows: He better hope the Chaplain don't catch him at that.
- Mulhall: Shit... most of the Navy Chaplains I know, they want to stand up on the bridge with the old man and look through aviator sunglasses.
- Meadows: Mule... it takes a lot of dedication to be a Chaplain in the Navy.
- Mulhall: It don't take diddly-shit, man!
- Buddusky: I'm telling you, Mule, we got it made. All we got to do is get rid of that silly looking creep there and we got these three chicks all to ourselves.
- Mulhall: We have, huh?
- Buddusky: Yeah. Why not?
- Mulhall: Because those three chicks would rather fuck each other than come near us, that's why not.