47 Movie Quotes about Vietnam War (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Apr 30, 2026

Memorable quotes about vietnam war, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 A House subcommittee report says illegal drugs killed 160 American G.I.s last year, 40 of them in Vietnam.

Quote from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

2 Ho Chi Minh is a son of a _. Got the blue balls, crabs and the seven-year itch.

Quote from Full Metal Jacket

3 I thought I was going back to Vietnam, but instead, they decided the best way for me to fight the Communists was to play Ping-Pong.

Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump in Forrest Gump (1994)

4 How would you feel about that, Muhammad, being sent to Vietnam? -Don't feel nothing. I'm not excited at all.

Muhammad Ali in The Greatest (1977)

5 You think Rambo was the only guy who had a tough time in Vietnam?

Sylvester Stallone as John J. Rambo in Rambo 1 - First Blood

6 Oh, man, the _ piled up so fast in Vietnam, you needed wings to stay above it.

Quote from Apocalypse Now

7 Oh, man, are you flipped out on one of your Vietnam trips, man?

Cheech Marin as Pedro De Pacas in Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke

8 What the _ does anything have to do with Vietnam?

Jeff Bridges as Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski; Jeffrey The Dude Lebowski in The Big Lebowski

9 The war is over for me now, but it will always be there the rest of my days...

Charlie Sheen as Private Chris Taylor in Platoon

10 We've been through some tough ones before, kid. North of Da Nang, 50 clicks from the D.M.Z., we all got taken by Charlie. But we made our opportunities. We got loose.

Dirk Benedict as Faceman in The A-Team