Black Hawk Down (2001) quotes

Cast
Josh Hartnett.
Ewan McGregor.
Sam Shepard.

160 elite U.S. soldiers drop into Somalia to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord.

When I go home people’ll ask me, “Hey Hoot, why do you do it man? What, you some kinda war junkie?” You know what I’ll say? I won’t say a goddamn word. Why? They won’t understand. They won’t understand why we do it. They won’t understand that it’s about the men next to you, and that’s it. That’s all it is.
– Hoot

We just lost the initiative.
– Garrison

Nobody asks to be a hero, it just sometimes turns out that way.
– Eversmann

Colonel, they’re shooting at us! Colonel, they’re shooting at us!
– Pilla
Well shoot back!
– McKnight

Are you alright?
– Sanderson
Yeah, I can hear bells ringin’!
– Grimes

Where’s the rescue squad?
– Durant
We’re it.
– Shughart

Y’know what I think? Don’t really matter what I think. Once that first bullet goes past your head, politics and all that shit just goes right out the window.
– Hoot

Well, I’m here to kick some ass.
– Todd Blackburn

Look, these people, they have no jobs, no food, no education, no future. I just figure that we have two things we can do. Help, or we can sit back and watch a country destroy itself on CNN. Right?
– Eversmann

If we don’t hold down this city we are gonna have 100 caskets to fill by morning.
– General Garrison

Pretty funny, hoo-ah?
– Steele

Once that first bullet goes past your head, politics and all that shit just goes right out the window.
– Hoot

This isn’t Iraq, you know. Much more complicated than that.
– General Garrison

You shouldn’t have come here. This is a civil war. This is our war, not yours.
– Atto
300,000 dead and counting. That’s not a war Mr. Atto. That’s genocide.
– General Garrison

No one gets left behind, you know that.
– Struecker

The Humvees ain’t coming back for us, dude.
– Nelson

Danny, you understand me? No one gets left behind!
– General Garrison

It’s what you do right now that makes a difference.
– Struecker