Forrest Gump (1994)
Gary Sinise: Lieutenant Dan Taylor
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Quotes
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Lieutenant Daniel Taylor : Have you found Jesus yet, Gump?
Forrest Gump : I didn't know I was supposed to be looking for him, sir.
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Forrest Gump : Lieutenant Dan, what are you doing here?
Lieutenant Daniel Taylor : I'm here to try out my sea legs.
Forrest Gump : But you ain't got no legs, Lieutenant Dan.
Lieutenant Daniel Taylor : [mildly irritated, but understanding] Yes... yes, I know that. You wrote me a letter, you idiot!
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Lieutenant Daniel Taylor : I never thanked you for saving my life.
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Lieutenant Daniel Taylor : Well, I told you that if actually got a shrimp boat I would be your first mate. And I am a man of my word. But if you think for a second that I am calling you "Sir," you got another thing comin'.
Forrest Gump : No, sir.
[Forrest's shrimp boat crashes on the docks in the distance]
Forrest Gump : That's my boat.
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Forrest Gump : Lieutenant Dan was always getting these funny feelings about a rock or a trail or the road, so he'd tell us to get down, shut up.
Lieutenant Daniel Taylor : Get down! Shut up!
Forrest Gump : So we did.
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Lieutenant Daniel Taylor : That's what all these cripples down at the VA talk about: Jesus this and Jesus that, have I found Jesus yet? They even had a priest come and talk to me. He said God is listening and if I found Jesus, I'd get to walk beside him in the kingdom of Heaven. Did you hear what I said? WALK beside him in the kingdom of Heaven! Well kiss my crippled ass. God is listening? What a crock of shit.
Forrest Gump : I'm going to heaven, Lieutenant Dan.
Lieutenant Daniel Taylor : Yeah? Well... before you go, why don't you get your ass down to the corner and get us another bottle of ripple?
Forrest Gump : Yes, sir.
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Lieutenant Daniel Taylor : [Forrest and Bubba salute Lt. Dan] Oh, get your hands down. Do not salute me. There are goddamn snipers all around this area who'd love to grease an officer. I'm Lieutenant Dan Taylor. Welcome to Fort Platoon.
[looks at Bubba]
Lieutenant Daniel Taylor : What's wrong with your lip?
Bubba : I was born with big gums, sir.
Lieutenant Daniel Taylor : Well, you better tuck that in. Gonna get that caught on a tripwire.
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Lieutenant Daniel Taylor : Where are you boys from in the world?
Forrest Gump , Bubba : Alabama, sir!
Lieutenant Daniel Taylor : You twins?
Forrest Gump : No, we are not relations Sir.
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Forrest Gump : [dejected] No shrimp.
Lieutenant Daniel Taylor : Where the Hell is this God of yours?
Forrest Gump : [narrating] It's funny Lieutenant Dan said that, 'cause right then, God showed up.
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Lieutenant Daniel Taylor : [to Forrest] We all have a destiny: nothing just happens, it's all part of a plan. I should have died out there with my men, now I'm nothing but a God damn cripple, a leg less freak, do you know what it's like not being able to use your legs? I had a destiny, I was supposed to die out there in the field with honor and you cheated me out of it. This wasn't supposed to happen to me
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Carla : Is your friend stupid or something?
Lieutenant Daniel Taylor : Hey! Don't call him stupid! You shut up! Don't you ever call him stupid!
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Lieutenant Daniel Taylor : They gave you the Congressional Medal of Honor
Forrest Gump : [with his back facing Lt. Dan, after leaving talk show studio, from hearing his voice] now, that's Lt. Dan
Forrest Gump : [turns around, excitingly] Lt. Dan!
Lieutenant Daniel Taylor : They gave you the Congressional Medal of Honor
Forrest Gump : yes sir, they surely did
Lieutenant Daniel Taylor : they gave you, an imbecile, a moron who goes on television and makes a fool out of himself in front of the whole damn country, the Congressional Medal of Honor
Forrest Gump : yes sir
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Forrest Gump : So what are you doing in New York, Lt. Dan?
Lieutenant Daniel Taylor : I am living off the government tit! Sucking it dry!
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Lieutenant Daniel Taylor : [while being ambushed] You guys get that pig unfucked and get it on the tree line!
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Lieutenant Daniel Taylor : [introducing Forrest and Bubba to his platoon in Vietnam] Look, it's pretty basic here: you stick with me and learn from the guys that have been in the country a while you'll be alright. There is an item of GI that can be the difference a live grunt and a dead grunt: socks, cushioned soled OD green, try and keep your feet dry while we're out humping I want you to remember to change your socks whenever we stop, Vietcong will eat a grunt's feet right off his legs, so you boys are from "Arkansas", I've been through there Little Rock is a fine town, now go shed down your gear see the platoon sergeant for what you need in the field if you boys are hungry we got steak burners right over here two standing orders in this platoon , one, take good care of your feet and two try not to do anything stupid, like getting yourself killed
Forrest Gump : I sure hope I don't let him down
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Lieutenant Daniel Taylor : [to Forrest] They gave you the Congressional Medal of Honor, they gave you, an imbecile, a moron who goes on television and makes a fool out of himself in front of the whole damn country, the Congressional Medal of Honor.
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Lieutenant Daniel Taylor : [after Carla and Lenore make fun of Forrest] You Goddamn Girls! Get the hell out of here!
Lieutenant Daniel Taylor : Go on! Get out of here!
Carla : You retard!
Lenore : You retard! You loser! You freak!