Black Hawk Down (2001)

Josh Hartnett: Eversmann

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Quotes 

• Garrison : Good luck, boys. Be careful. Nobody gets left behind.

  Grimes : [looks at Eversmann's face] 

  Grimes : What's wrong?

  Eversmann : Nothing. He's just never done that before.

  Grimes : Oh, fuck!

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

• Eversmann : I was talking to Blackburn the other day, and he asked me "What changed? Why are we going home?" and I said "Nothing." That's not true either; I think everything's changed. I know I've changed.

  [sigh] 

  Eversmann : You know a friend of mine asked me before I got here; it's when we were all shipping out. He asked me "Why are you going to fight somebody else's war? What, do you think you're heroes?" I didn't know what to say at the time, but if he'd ask me again I'd say no. I'd say there's not way in hell. Nobody asks to be a hero.

  [beat] 

  Eversmann : It just sometimes turns out that way.

• Smith : I'm sorry.

  Eversmann : You have nothing to be sorry about. You saved Twombly, you did it perfect.

  Smith : You okay Twombs?

  Twombly : Yeah, I'm okay, Jamie.

  Eversmann : See, you did what you were trained to do. You should be proud of that, be proud of that.

  Smith : Ev?

  Eversmann : Yeah.

  Smith : Do me a favor, okay? Tell my parents that I fought well today. And tell them that I... that I... that I fought hard.

  Eversmann : You're gonna tell them yourself okay, Jamie?

  Smith : Are... are the humvees here?

  Eversmann : They're coming, Jamie. They're coming. You just gotta hold on for a little longer. Can you do that?

  Smith : I can, I can. It's nothing. It's nothing.

• [Jamie Smith bounces a basketball on the table where Eversman is working] 

  Eversmann : What the fuck, Smith?

  Smith : Well?

  Eversmann : "Well" what?

  Smith : We going out?

  Eversmann : Why should I tell you?

  Smith : Because I'm me!

• [after Eversmann debriefs his chalk on Wolcott's crashed helicopter] 

  Nelson : How come I gotta stay back here?

  Eversmann : Because you're dependable.

  Nelson : [to Twombly after Eversmann, Wadell, Schmid, and Galentine head for the crash site]  I hate being dependable, man.

• Eversmann : You okay?

  Todd Blackburn : Excited. In a good way. I've been training my whole life for this.

  Eversmann : You ever shot at anybody before?

  Todd Blackburn : No Sergeant.

  Eversmann : Me neither.

• [trying to start a conversation] 

  Eversmann : You know, it's kind of funny. Beautiful beach, beautiful sun. Could almost be a nice place to visit.

  "Hoot" : Almost.

• Eversmann : Remember, we're Rangers not some sorry-ass JROTC. We're Elite. Let's act like it out there. Hoo-ah?

  Rangers : Hoo-ah!

• Eversmann : You brought your gun?

  Todd Blackburn : Yes, Sarn't! Want me to shoot? I'm rested.

  Eversmann : When'd you get in?

  Todd Blackburn : Just now, Sarn't.