Renaissance Man (1994)

Share this quote on facebook Soldiers: [chanting] Hamlet's mother, she's the queen / Buys it in the final scene / Drinks a glass of funky wine / Now she's Satan's Valentine.

Share this quote on facebook Miranda: I'd rather be a Double D than a swinger from the ugly tree, you fat pig.

Share this quote on facebook Bill: GO NAVY.

Share this quote on facebook Bill: Hi, I'm Bill Rago. I've never taught before... and you've never thought before. So, good luck to all of us.

Share this quote on facebook [Bill writes "oxymoron" on the board]
Jamaal: You can't say that. That is a diss. I ain't no ox moron.
Bill: No, no, no. Not ox moron, schmuck; oxymoron. That's when you take two words that are totally opposite and you jam them together, like, uh 'Military Intelligence'... 'Dark Victory'... 'Thunderous Silence'... [getting no response] Girly Man! [class laughs] Now we'll end today with an oxymoron from Shakespeare himself,

Share this quote on facebook Bill: All I know is, the choices you make dictate the life you lead. "To thine own self be true."

Share this quote on facebook Soldier 1: Has anyone seen my green socks?
Solider 2: We all got green socks.

Share this quote on facebook [reading about why they joined the Army]
Tommy Lee: There's these woods behind our trailer park. This old guy lives in the woods there. Everybody in town swore he was crazy. He showed me how to hunt, and how to be real quiet, and how to listen. He said he had seen everything in the world he wanted to see, and he ain't never wanted to leave those woods. Well, me and my daddy got laid off at the paper mill, and whilst I spent about five months watching TV with my brothers, I kept thinking of what the old man said. Finally, I decided that I did want to see more of the world, and what was behind that trailer park. And that's why I joined up.
Miranda: I liked living with my aunt, Mavis, in Chicago the best. Bust last summer, my mother, Ruthie, came back and we drove to Atlanta. She said, "We don't have to stay long," but then she met a man, and they take off. I waited around for a while, waiting for her to come back, but everybody keep saying, "Just go on home." I don't know where that is. So I take the bus to Cleveland and spend two days staring at the poster behind the driver saying, "Be all you can be." So I think about that for a week, and think I got to be somewhere, so here I am.
Jamaal: In my crib, there ain't never been a time where we eat, sleep, or nothing. You know, everybody just run around crazy. Half the time, I don't even know who we are. I must be the only person in the world who joined the army so he'd know exactly what time he'd be eating lunch.
Roosevelt: I wanted to learn a new trade.

Share this quote on facebook Bill: [about reading their essay] All right, who wants to start?
[no reply]
Bill: Nobody?
[snickers]
Bill: I thought this was the volunteer army...

Share this quote on facebook Bill: Write... why you're here.
Tommy Lee: This is where they told us to be.
Bill: No, no. Write about the magical twist of fate that prompted you to gravitate towards this institute of imbeciles.
Jamaal: [confused] What?
Bill: [very nonchalantly] Write why you joined the Army.

Share this quote on facebook One Man's Mission To Teach The Few, The Proud... The Impossible!

Share this quote on facebook There's only one man big enough to take them on...

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