Blood Diamond Quotes - Blood Diamond Quotations, Famous Sayings

Danny Archer: Because I stole a GPS, that's how.

Danny Archer: You risk my life like that again... and I'll peel your face back off your head. You understand?

Solomon Vandy: I thought you would steal it from me.
Danny Archer: Yeah, yeah, it occured to me, huh?

Danny Archer: Without me you're just another black man in Africa.

Danny Archer: So, don't tell me you're here to make a difference, huh?
Maddy Bowen: And you're here to make a buck?
Danny Archer: I'm here for lack of a better idea.
Maddy Bowen: That's a shame.

Maddy Bowen: The entire country's at war. Why should I help this one person?
(pause)
Maddy Bowen: I can't believe I just said that.

Captain Poison: Young man, young man, listen to me. The gov'mint wants you to vote. They say "the future is in your hands." We now the future. So we take your hands! No more hands, no more voting!

Maddy Bowen: The people back home wouldn't buy a ring if they knew it cost someone else their hand.

Commander Zero: You get something for me?
Danny Archer: And yourself get something for me, huh?
Commander Zero: You bring the plane back first.
Danny Archer: Are you craze? You get for pay me first for them.
Commander Zero: (Commander Zero hands Danny a small bag of diamonds, Danny checks its content)
Danny Archer: This no fine, huh? This no fine.
Commander Zero: This all you get!
Danny Archer: Then your boys then can use one ol' rotten AK them against them government troops and their new weapons them, huh?
Commander Zero: Maybe I could just kill you and take what you bring back!
Danny Archer: Then you get one more dead body instead of aeroplane way full with grenade launchers. So I'm think I'm gonna go to them government, huh? Them government, at least them go pay me, huh?
Commander Zero: Wait, wait. Wait, my friend. This is the thing you want? Here.
(Commander Zero pours diamonds from a can in Danny's hands)
Commander Zero: So many I not know what do with them all. - Hey, Archer, next time, you bring satellite TV, eh? I wanna see Baywatch.
Danny Archer: Ja. Ja, ja.

(about her article about the war)
Solomon Vandy: So when people in your country read it, they will come help, yes?
Maddy Bowen: Probably not.

Danny Archer: American, huh?
Maddy Bowen: Guilty.
Danny Archer: Well, Americans usually are.
Maddy Bowen: ...Says the white South African?
Danny Archer: Ts ts ts ts. I'm from Rhodesia!
Maddy Bowen: We say Zimbabwe now, don't we?
Danny Archer: Do we?
Maddy Bowen: Last time I checked.

Maddy Bowen: Tell me where you are, and I will come help you.
Danny Archer: (after seeing his blood mix in with the red earth) I'm right where I'm supposed to be...

Solomon Vandy: I understand White people want our diamonds, yes. But how can my own people do this to each other?

Maddy Bowen: Three out of five ex-boyfriends polled think I need to be in a constant state of crisis. Maybe I just give a shit.

(as they were encountering some child soldiers while driving)
Danny Archer: Drive right at them, they'll panic.
Benjamin Kapanay: No, do you know where the word "infantry" comes from, it means: Child Soldier. They're just children.