Al Pacino Quotes

I suddenly remember something I've been told about fear. That amid a hail of machine gun fire you notice the existence of your skin.

My eyes are wide open... you serve in Iraq, your eyes are wide open.

I've certainly been mortared and rocketed a few times.

I was sent to Korea, which was excellent training for what came later. I was assigned to remain on duty until I completed one hundred combat missions - or got knocked out - whichever came first.

The choices Israelis face and the decisions they make, day in and day out, are literally the difference between life and death. In many ways, I liken their reactions to the way I felt while serving in Iraq.

I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.

I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.

I have been to Iraq on a number of occasions. I was with the first group that went in.

The thing that strikes you most about being a soldier in a war zone and in action to the small extent that I was, when actually people start shooting, which happened to me a couple of times, everything goes on automatic and there's a feeling of tremendous elevation and even elation.

I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.

After literally hundreds of firefights, Chosen Company became increasingly battle-hardened. And they also became increasingly suspicious of their Afghan counterparts, believing - with their lives on the line at the end of the day - that they could only truly rely on themselves.

A handful of men, inured to war, proceed to certain victory, while on the contrary, numerous armies of raw and undisciplined troops are but multitudes of men dragged to the slaughter.

I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.

I followed the war wherever I could reach it.

I understood that 'The Yellow Birds' would be a peculiar representation of the experience of being at war. I intended it to be so.

I fought in Korea, front line. I knew who the enemy were. The enemy were the people who were firing at me. And shooting at me.

We talk about war in America, we talk about it on an intellectual level. We don’t talk about the sound or smells of war…the pain

I do not have to watch late-night television, watch a movie, to find out what combat is like.

If the Marines today are doing exactly the same thing their dads did in Vietnam and their granddads did in Korea and World War II, then how in the hell can we say that they're not as good?

When I read the script of 'The Wall,' I saw how much different the war looks from the point of view of a soldier fighting it.

When I was in the Army, 100 percent of our effort was to really be sharp, and soldiers, we were under live fire all the time.

I've been to Afghanistan and Iraq a few times, and then I've done deployments elsewhere - with Special Forces, we go all over the place.

I don't have the experience of being in a war.

My fight-or-flight mechanism... had served me well in Gaza, in Afghanistan, and all the places I'd been.

I can't tell you the number of times I looked down at what was going on on the ground, or I was engaged in a fight somewhere, and I knew within a couple of minutes how I was going to screw up the enemy. And I knew it because I'd done so much reading.