Band of Brothers (2001)
Ron Livingston: Lewis Nixon
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Quotes
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Richard Winters : [about Nixon's drinking] Nix, what are you going to do in battle?
Cpt. Nixon : Oh, I have every confidence in my scrounging abilities, and I have a case of Vat 69 hidden in your footlocker.
Richard Winters : [chuckles, thinks it's a joke. Pauses, realizes that he's not kidding] Really?
Cpt. Nixon : Oh, yeah.
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Cpt. Nixon : Sobel's a genius. I had a headmaster in prep school who was just like him. I know the type.
Richard Winters : Lew, Michaelangelo's a genius. Beethoven's a genius.
Cpt. Nixon : You know a man in this company who wouldn't double-time Currahee with a full pack, just to piss in that man's morning coffee?
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Richard Winters : [Cpt. Nixon won't wake up] Let's go. C'mon, you got 10 minutes.
Cpt. Nixon : [sleepily] Go away.
Richard Winters : C'mon, big guy, let's go.
Cpt. Nixon : Ah, leave me alone!
Richard Winters : [tossing the contents of a nearby pitcher on Nix' head] Okay...
Cpt. Nixon : GOD DAMMIT! Ahhh, that's my own PISS, for Christ's sake!
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Cpt. Nixon : [regarding the flower on a dead German soldier] That's edelweiss. It grows in the mountains, above the treeline. Which means he climbed up there to get it. Supposed to be the mark of a true soldier.
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Cpt. Nixon : What do you think about New Jersey?
Richard Winters : New Jersey?
Cpt. Nixon : There's a company in Nixon, New Jersey. It's called Nixon Nitration Works.
Richard Winters : Sounds picturesque.
Cpt. Nixon : Yeah, well, oddly enough, I know the owners. Probably gonna expect me to make something of myself. I thought maybe I'd drag you along with me.
Richard Winters : Are you offering me a job?
Cpt. Nixon : We'll see how you do on your interview, but, you know, a man of your qualifications... I think probably scrape something up commensurate with your current salary level.
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Cpt. Nixon : Hitler's dead.
Liebgott : Holy shit.
Cpt. Nixon : Shot himself in Berlin.
Sgt. Denver 'Bull' Randleman : Is the war over, sir?
Cpt. Nixon : No. We have orders to Berchtesgaden. We move out in one hour.
Pvt. David Kenyon Webster : Why? The man's not home. He should have killed himself three years ago. Saved us a lot of trouble.
Cpt. Nixon : Yeah, he should have. But he didn't.
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Nixon : Division has decided to pluck one officer from each regiment who served in the heroic defense of Bastogne and send them back to the States on a thirty day furlough... get him out banging the drum for the war bonds, that kind of thing. Turns out I've been plucked.
Richard Winters : Hey, that's fantastic, Lew. Good for you.
Nixon : Thank you.
Richard Winters : But how does your leaving help me?
Nixon : It doesn't. I'm not going. I've already seen the States, I grew up there. That's why I came to Europe. I just wish they told me a war was going on. Anyway, this thing is wasted on me, but I'm sure we could find an officer somewhere in this battalion that could use a long trip home.
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Richard Winters : Harry, fire's not a good idea.
Harry Welsh : Just a couple of minutes. We're in a dell.
Richard Winters : A dell? Like where fairies and gnomes live?
Cpt. Nixon : I swear I thought I could smell a fire... I DID smell a fire. Are you out of your mind?
Richard Winters : Well, we're in a dell.
Cpt. Nixon : Huh?
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Cpt. Nixon : [about Major Winters] I heard reports about a redheaded eskimo. Thought I'd check it out.
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Richard Winters : [after a bullet ricochets off of Nixon's helmet] NIX!
Cpt. Nixon : I'm all right! I'm all right... am I all right?
[looking at Winters annoyed]
Cpt. Nixon : Stop looking at me like that!
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Cpt. Nixon : What do you think I should write these parents, Dick?
Richard Winters : Hear what I said, Nix? You've been demoted.
Cpt. Nixon : Yeah, demoted, gotcha. Because I don't know how to tell them their kids never made it out of the goddamn plane.
Richard Winters : You tell them what you always tell them: their sons died as heroes.
Cpt. Nixon : [cynically] You really still believe that?
Richard Winters : [pauses, considering] Yeah. Yeah, I do.
[Challenges]
Richard Winters : Don't you?
Cpt. Nixon : [chuckles, uncertainly]
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Cpt. Nixon : Who are you?
2nd Lt. Henry Jones : 2nd Lt. Henry Jones, sir.
Cpt. Nixon : Right, our West Pointer. When'd you graduate?
2nd Lt. Henry Jones : June 6th, sir.
Cpt. Nixon : Of last year?
2nd Lt. Henry Jones : Yes, D-Day, sir.
Cpt. Nixon : [laughs] Don't get hurt.
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Richard Winters : How'd it go? The drop?
Cpt. Nixon : We took a direct hit over the drop zone. I got out, two others got out.
Richard Winters : And the rest of the boys?
Cpt. Nixon : Oh, they blew up in Germany somewhere... Boom.
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Herbert Sobel : What is this? Anybody?
Cpt. Nixon : Er... it's a can of peaches, Sir.
Herbert Sobel : Lieutenant Nixon thinks this is a can of peaches. That is incorrect, Lieutenant. Your weekend pass is cancelled. This is United States Army property which was taken without authorization from my mess facility. And I will not tolerate thievery in my unit. Whose footlocker is this?
Richard Winters : Private Park's, Sir.
Herbert Sobel : Get rid of him.
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Harry Welsh : I made up my mind, Nix. I got the points, I'm going back to Kitty.
Cpt. Nixon : Harry, do you really think that Kitty hasn't run off with some 4-F by now?
Harry Welsh : [laughing] Son of a bitch, that's not even funny...
Richard Winters : Harry, ignore him.
