The 12 best quotes from 'Apocalypse Now'

We’ve picked out the best military movie quotes of all time, singling out the greatest lines from “Full Metal Jacket” specifically. Now it’s time to turn our attention to “Apocalypse Now.”

The Vietnam War classic from Francis Ford Coppola yields any number of iconic lines that fans and military members still quote at will (whether they know it or not), from Kilgore’s comments about napalm to an intelligence officer’s use of the phrase “with extreme prejudice.”

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1. Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore (Robert Duvall)

“I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn’t find one of ’em, not one stinkin’ dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like… victory.”

2. Capt. Benjamin L. Willard (Martin Sheen)

“Saigon… sh-t. I’m still only in Saigon.”

3. Col. Kilgore

“Someday this war’s gonna end.”

4. Capt. Willard

“Terminate the colonel?”

To which a civilian intelligence official replied: “… Terminate with extreme prejudice.”

5. Capt. Willard

“Oh, man… the bullsh-t piled up so fast in Vietnam, you needed wings to stay above it.”

6. Capt. Willard

“Charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding tickets in the Indy 500.”

7. Capt. Willard

“‘Never get out of the boat.’ Absolutely goddamn right! Unless you were goin’ all the way… Kurtz got off the boat. He split from the whole f–kin’ program.”

8. Col. Kilgore

“If I say it’s safe to surf this beach, Captain, then it’s safe to surf this beach!”

9. Jay “Chef” Hicks (Frederic Forrest)

“I just wanted to learn to f—kin’ cook, man!”

10. Capt. Willard

“Who’s the commanding officer here?”Soldier: “Ain’t you?“

11. Col. Kilgore

“Charlie don’t surf!”

12. Col. Kurtz (Marlin Brando)

“The horror! The horror!”