Berets Quotes

Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I`m not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be. I was proud when President Nixon (Richard Nixon) ordered the mining of Haiphong Harbor, which we should have done long ago, because I think we`re helping a brave little country defend herself against Communist invasion. That`s what I tried to show in The Green Berets (1968) and I took plenty of abuse from the critics. Did you ever see reviews like that? Reviews with hatred and nastiness."

I had the feeling my career was going to decline back in `68. I`d just had a big hit with The Green Berets (1968), but I wasn`t getting any younger and I knew Hellfighters (1968) wasn`t going to set the box office on fire. Then I read a script for a film called True Grit (1969).

(on The Green Berets (1968)) When I saw what our boys are going through - hell - and how the morale was holding up, and the job they were doing, I just knew they had to make this picture.

The Green Berets (1968) made $7,000,000 in the first three months of its release. This so-called intellectual group aren`t in touch with the American people, regardless of (J. William Fulbright`s) blatting, and Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern and Ted Kennedy. In spite of them the American people do not feel that way. Instead of taking a census, they ought to count the tickets that were sold to that picture.