Volunteers (1985)
Tom Hanks: Lawrence Bourne III
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Quotes
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Chung Mee : Opium is my business. The bridge mean more traffic. More traffic mean more business. More business mean money. More money mean more power.
Lawrence Bourne III : Yeah, well, before I commit any of that to memory, would there be anything in this for me?
Chung Mee : Speed is important in business. Time is money.
Lawrence Bourne III : You said opium was money.
Chung Mee : Money is Money.
Lawrence Bourne III : Well then, what is time again?
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Lawrence Bourne III : It's not that I can't help these people. It's just I don't want to.
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Lawrence Bourne III : I need to have a talk with you; sort of a little father-son chat.
Lawrence Bourne Jr : Have we ever done this before?
Lawrence Bourne III : No, we're breaking new wind. Dad, I need $28,000; it's the matter of a little gambling debt. I can assure you it will never happen again.
Lawrence Bourne Jr : Well, I must say it doesn't surprise me. You have been a constant disappointment to your mother and me ever since the day we brought you home from the orphanage.
Lawrence Bourne III : Stop it, Dad. You know I'm not adopted.
Lawrence Bourne Jr : [Puts his head in his hands] I know, but please; just allow me this little fantasy.
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Beth Wexler : Bangkok. Already.
Lawrence Bourne III : Well, we've been talking now for, oh my, ten hours, twenty two minutes.
Beth Wexler : Kent, I'm really lucky to be assigned with you.
Lawrence Bourne III : You know, uh, Beth, we're going to be awfully busy once we get to, uh...
Beth Wexler : Loong Ta.
Lawrence Bourne III : Loong Ta. Yes, of course. Uh, what say we, you and I, take the first night out, just for ourselves, huh? A bit of dinner, maybe a few drinks, and then see a little bit of the city, huh? I mean, there really is only one thing we haven't shared.
Beth Wexler : [laughs] Very funny.
Lawrence Bourne III : [Takes Beth's hand and starts kissing her hand and up her arm]
Beth Wexler : [Pulls her hand away] Thank you just the same.
Lawrence Bourne III : Beth, now, we've been moony-eyed since Istanbul, why fight it?
Beth Wexler : Kent, why are you doing this? I thought we were becoming friends?
Lawrence Bourne III : Well, this is what I do with my friends.
Beth Wexler : You mean, you've just been trying to go to bed with me?
Lawrence Bourne III : Well I think I've put in the hours, don't you?
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Lawrence Bourne III : Stewardess! Stewardess?
Tammy : Can I help you?
Lawrence Bourne III : Yes, hi. I need to send a telegram, right now, this instant.
Tammy : A telegram? Well, I suppose I could relay something to the captain, and he could pass it on along.
Lawrence Bourne III : Fine, get this down:
[Writes down message]
Lawrence Bourne III : To Lawrence Bourne Jr, Number One Bourne Lane, Darien, Connecticut: 'Lawrence, have made grave error. Have joined Peace Corps and gone to Thailand. Please arrange for my immediate return. Your loving son, blah, blah, blah Lawrence.'
Tammy : Are you sure about this?
Lawrence Bourne III : Do I look like I'm associated with this hootenanny?
Tammy : [Looks around] Okay.
Lawrence Bourne III : Thank you. And when you come back, bring me anything with alcohol in it.
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Kent Sutcliffe : Bourne, it's eight o'clock. Graduation breakfast is at nine, graduation is at ten.
Lawrence Bourne III : Well, Bootsy, we'd better get down to the real sex then.
Bootsy : Graduation! My speech.
[leaps out of bed]
Bootsy : I don't even have a theme yet!
[to Kent]
Bootsy : I'm the valedictorian at Smith.
[Leaves holding her clothes]
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Lawrence Bourne III : Did you knock out Lucille and tie her up?
At Toon : No, she did it herself. You should've been there.
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Tom Tuttle : I don't understand it. I explained the bridge; everything was A-Okay. Then I mentioned the teakwood we'd be using, and they went all heathen on me.
At Toon : The problem is, you're an asshole.
Tom Tuttle : All right, let's not get personal.
[pause. Realizes he should be shocked to hear a villager speaking English]
Tom Tuttle : Who said that?
Lawrence Bourne III : It should have been me.
At Toon : You're an asshole, Peace Corps guy. You can't cut down those trees. They're sacred! The spirit that guards the village lives in those trees. Don't they teach you nothing?
Lawrence Bourne III : [to Tom] He might be just a marvelous mimic.
[to At Toon]
Lawrence Bourne III : You speak English.
At Toon : As good as him. You better pick another set of trees, 'cause no one touches those, Champ.
Tom Tuttle , Lawrence Bourne III : [laughing] Champ!
Lawrence Bourne III : Who are you?
At Toon : I'm At Toon. I spent four years in American school in Bangkok. I'm the sharpest thing this village ever seen, so they sent me. Big deal, less headaches here!
Lawrence Bourne III : Astonishing.
At Toon : Believe it, Hot Rod!
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Lawrence Bourne III : Excuse me, I'm, uh, just going by height of course, but, uh, are you in charge here?
John Reynolds : Yes, John Reynolds.
Lawrence Bourne III : Lawrence Bourne III, Johnny.
John Reynolds : Bourne, I've got a telegram for you.
Lawrence Bourne III : Hmm.
[Speaking to Beth]
Lawrence Bourne III : Last chance.
Beth Wexler : Over my dead body.
Lawrence Bourne III : Interesting.
John Reynolds : You must have some friends in pretty high places, Bourne.
John Reynolds : Yeah, well, we do consider Washington our General Store.
John Reynolds : Damndest thing I ever saw. Training waived, location approval, Just like that, you're officially in the Peace Corps.
[to Beth]
John Reynolds : Beth?
Lawrence Bourne III : [Bourne reads his telegram] Hey! John, John, John, This, this is ridiculous. Really, now I am obviously not, of Peace Corps fiber. It's not that I can't help these people, it's just that I don't want to.
John Reynolds : You know, looking at you I think two years in Loong Ta might do you some good.
Tom Tuttle : Hi, Tom Tuttle, from Tacoma Washington. Where do we saddle up for Loong Ta?
John Reynolds : He's going, too?
Tom Tuttle : Hey, Larry!
John Reynolds : Yeah, I'll be taking you all in by chopper.
Tom Tuttle : Chopper! Holy Cow! All, right, I call shotgun on this one! I got dibs on that, Larry, sorry.
[Turns to shake hands with Beth]
Tom Tuttle : Tom Tuttle, Tacoma Washington.
Beth Wexler : Hi, Beth.
Tom Tuttle : Hey!
Beth Wexler : Are you going to Loong Ta?
Tom Tuttle : Loong Ta? I'll give you a hand over here.
Lawrence Bourne III : I'm stationed with him?
[John nods]
Lawrence Bourne III : John, for what I'm about to do, you should be ashamed.
[Lawrence gets down on his knees]
Lawrence Bourne III : I'd like to go home, please. Please, can I go home? Please? Just let me go home. Can I go home?
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Lawrence Bourne III : [throwing cigarettes and gum to the villagers] That's right, Lawrence Bournes III; rich American.
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Beth Wexler : [Lawrence is trying to talk Beth into bed] I thought we were becoming friends!
Lawrence Bourne III : This is what I do with my friends.
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John Reynolds : Don't move, not an inch. Bourne, this is the end of the line.
Lawrence Bourne III : You make one move towards me, and I'll signal my friends down there, and they'll blow us both to kingdom come, and, hey, wait a minute!
John Reynolds : I tell you what I'm going to do, I'm going to kill you, and I'm going to skin you, and I'm going to use your shin bone for a pencil box. Ain't nobody around this time, Bourne. It's just you, me,
[John thumbs his knife's edge]
John Reynolds : and Mike.
Lawrence Bourne III : Well, that's fair.
John Reynolds : Stand up.
Lawrence Bourne III : You know, there never was a time when brains didn't triumph over brawn.
John Reynolds : Let's see what you've got, boy.
John Reynolds : Oh, I've got brains.
[Looks up at the sky]
John Reynolds : Is that a Russian Mig-25?
Lawrence Bourne III : [Looks up at sky and lowers his knife] Where?
Lawrence Bourne III : [Knocks John over the bridge railing and into the river]
John Reynolds : Gol Durn!
Lawrence Bourne III : [Dives into the river] Whoa!
