The Messenger (I) (2009)

Ben Foster: Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery

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Quotes 

• Captain Tony Stone : It should be in the next couple of blocks...

  Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery : We should just ask someone.

  Captain Tony Stone : No! First of all, *men* don't ask for directions. Much less soldiers.

• Captain Tony Stone : I know what you're thinkin'. You're thinkin' shit, I'm a goddamn decorated war hero with three months left to serve, and they draft me into the angels-of-death squadron. I get a beeper, a canned speech, and a lunatic commanding officer to serve a fuckin' ocean of grief. Am I right?

  Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery : More or less, sir. Am I right?

• Captain Tony Stone : You gotta wake the fuck up! You're not in high school, you're not in a fuckin' rock band, you're in the Army.

  Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery : Yeah, I know. I know I'm in the Army. I gave blood to the Army. I got blown up in a fire-fight that lasted longer than your entire war. I didn't sunbath in Kuwait with the rest of the POGs.

• Captain Tony Stone : If she's into you, she's into some weird shit.

  Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery : Thank you, sir, I'll make a note of that.

• Olivia Pitterson : Did you ever loose anybody?

  Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery : Yeah. Friends, over there. My father, during peace time, drunk driver.

  Olivia Pitterson : Did they catch him?

  Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery : No, my father was the drunk driver.

• Captain Tony Stone : One more thing. You do not touch the Next-of-Kin. Avoid physical contact, unless it's a medical emergency, like they're having a heart attack or something. You're representing the Secretary of the Army, not Will Montgomery, so in case you feel like offering a hug or something... don't.

  Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery : [sarcastic]  I'm not gonna be offering any hugs, sir.

• Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery : Why did you join?

  Captain Tony Stone : A dare.

  Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery : A dare? Why are you still here?

  Captain Tony Stone : Well, they offered me a commission, and no one dared me to leave.

  Captain Tony Stone : And I dare you to stay.

• [last lines] 

  Olivia Pitterson : Why don't you come inside. You can give me your address, and I'll write you a letter.

  Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery : I'd like that.

• Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery : We walk into these people lives, we don't know shit.

  Captain Tony Stone : Trust me... you don't wanna know.

• Captain Tony Stone : You a head case?

  Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery : No, sir.

  Captain Tony Stone : I surely hope not.

• Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery : [At the local bar]  I'm gonna go home.

  Captain Tony Stone : What for? Internet porn? Come on, you even don't have a computer.