Casper Van Dien credited as playing...
Johnny Rico
- Johnny Rico: I wanna join up. I think I got what it takes to be a Citizen.
- Jean Rasczak: Good for you! Go find out...
- Johnny Rico: Well... my parents are against it... and I know it's my choice. I was wondering. What would you do if you were me?
- Jean Rasczak: Figuring things out for yourself is the only freedom anyone really has. Use that freedom. Make up your own mind, Rico.
- Johnny Rico: Someone asked me once if I knew the difference between a civilian and a citizen. I know now. A citizen has the courage to make the safety of the human race their personal responsibility. Dizzy was my friend. She was a soldier. But most important, she was a citizen of the Federation.
- Jean Rasczak: You got 10 minutes to get ready and go.
- Johnny Rico: Yes sir.
- Jean Rasczak: [notices someone's hiding] Whos's in there with you?
- Dizzy: [shows up, slightly embarrassed] Flores, sir.
- Jean Rasczak: [smiles] Make it 20.
- Johnny Rico: Yes sir.
- Dizzy: 20 minutes?
- Johnny Rico: We can do it.
- Jean Rasczak: [after Rico denies Dizzy's request to dance] Rico - you once asked me for advice, want some now?
- Johnny Rico: Yes, sir!
- Jean Rasczak: Never pass up a good thing.
- Johnny Rico: These are the rules. Everybody fights, nobody quits. If you don't do your job I'll kill you myself. Welcome to the Roughnecks!
- Private Sugar Watkins: Rico's Roughnecks!
- Dizzy: Rico, I'm dying.
- Johnny Rico: No Diz, you'll be fine.
- Dizzy: But it's OK, because I got to have you.
- Johnny Rico: Who are these kids?
- Ace Levy: We got reinforced. Most of them are fresh out of boot.
- Johnny Rico: We're the old men, Ace.
- General Owen: I had to evade capture. The lives of the Federation were at stake.
- Ace Levy: [background] Fire in the Hole!
- [explosion]
- General Owen: [startled by the explosion] I have operational knowledge of what were up to out here.
- Jean Rasczak: [to Diz] Dizzi, give me a status report.
- Johnny Rico: [softly] She's working on it.
- General Owen: [points to a dead soldier with his head hollowed out] Here, they did it to Farley, they got into his mind. They made Farley call Headquarters.
- Johnny Rico: The distress call was a trap.
- General Owen: They're just like us. They wanna know what makes us tick. They wanna know us, so they can KILL us!
- Jean Rasczak: [into his radio] This is Rasczak, prepare for attack. I repeat, prepare for attack!
- Jean Rasczak: Rico. What is the moral difference, if any, between a civilian and a citizen?
- Johnny Rico: A citizen accepts personal responsibility for the safety and the body politic defending it with his life. A civilian does not.
- Jean Rasczak: The exact words of the textbook. But do you understand it? Do you believe it?
- Johnny Rico: I don't know.
- Jean Rasczak: No, of course you don't. I doubt anyone here would recognize civic virtue even if it reached up and bit you in the ass!
- Carl: We thought there might be a Brain Bug on 'P'.
- Carmen: You knew and still you sent them?
- Carl: We couldn't afford to launch an operation if there wasn't one.
- [both Carmen and Johnny look at Carl with contempt]
- Carl: You disapprove? Well, too bad! We're in this war for the species, boys and girls. It's simple numbers. They have more. And every day I have to make decisions that send hundreds of people like you to their deaths.
- Johnny Rico: Didn't they tell you, Colonel? That's what the Mobile Infantry is good for.
- Private Sugar Watkins: Gimme the nuke
- Johnny Rico: You trying to be a hero, Watkins?
- Private Sugar Watkins: Just trying to kill some bugs, sir.
- Net Correspondent: No one here in the AQZ knows exactly when the invasion of klendathu will occur. But everyone's talking about it and the talk says tomorrow. Here's a bunch of M.I. kids that look like they could eat bugs for lunch.
- Dizzy Flores: [chuckling] Yum, yum, yum.
- Net Correspondent: So trooper, you're not too worried about fighting the Arachnids?
- Ace Levy: Hey shoot a nuke down a bug hole, you got a lot of dead bugs am I right?
- Kitten Smith: I just hope it's not over before we get some.
- Net Correspondent: Some say the bugs were provoked by the intrusion of humans into their natural habitat, that a "Live-and-let-live" policy is preferable to war with the bugs.
- Johnny Rico: Let me tell you something. I'm from Buenos Aires, and I say kill them all!
- Carmen: Johnny, wait...
- Zander: Forget it, Ensign. He's mobile infantry. When you're paid to kill it doesn't pay to be polite.
- Johnny Rico: You got something to say about mobile infantry?
- Zander: You heard me. You want to make something of it... private?
- Johnny Rico: No, sir, not with an officer. The M.I. doesn't mint stupid troopers.
- Zander: Then let's disregard rank.
- [raising voice to speak to the crowd]
- Zander: Everybody hear that? Rank is not an issue here.
- Carmen: Zander, please, don't do this.
- Zander: Come on, what's he gonna do?
- [Zander turns towards Rico, who punches Zander in the jaw]
- [last lines]
- Newsreel announcer: We have the ships. We have the weapons. We need soldiers. Soldiers like Lieutenant Stack Lumbreiser...
- Lt. Lumbreiser: Over the target area now, Captain.
- Newsreel announcer: ...and Captain Carmen Ibanez.
- Carmen: This is the captain speaking. All personnel prepare for drop.
- Newsreel announcer: Soldiers like Private Ace Levy and Lieutenant John Rico.
- Johnny Rico: Come on you apes, you wanna live forever?
- Newsreel announcer: We need you all. Service guarantees citizenship.
- Carmen: Johnny, uh, you remember Zander, don't you?
- Zander: From the game today.
- [shakes Johnny's hand]
- Zander: No hard feelings?
- Johnny Rico: None at all. We won.
- Johnny Rico: This is Roughneck Two-Zero-One. We are under heavy attack!
- Radio operator: [voice] But we have Planet P as secure.
- Johnny Rico: This place crawls, sir! I request retrieval, now!
- Radio operator: [voice] What is your location?
- Johnny Rico: Come down on this transmission.
- Radio operator: [voice] On the outpost? That's crazy!
- Johnny Rico: Well, I hope you have a crazy pilot. Out.