Starship Troopers (1997)

Jake Busey: Ace Levy

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Quotes 

• [Ace is having difficulty with throwing knives] 

  Ace Levy : Sir, I don't understand. Who needs a knife in a nuke fight anyway? All you gotta do is push a button, sir.

  Career Sergeant Zim : Cease fire. Put your hand on that wall trooper. PUT YOUR HAND ON THAT WALL!

  [Zim throws a knife and hits Ace's hand pinning it to the wall] 

  Career Sergeant Zim : The enemy can not push a button... if you disable his hand. Medic!

• 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!

• [after Rico gets a Dear John from Carmen] 

  Ace Levy : Funny how they always want to be friends after they rip your guts out.

• 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!

• Ace Levy : Everybody should have a friend like me.

• Ace Levy : Shoot a nuke down a bug hole, you got a lot of dead bugs.

• Ace Levy : Don't worry, you still got me to kick around.