Pilou Asbaek Quotes

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

The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan.

Vietnam was my nightmare for a good ten years.

'The Wall' doesn't recount a specific soldier's experience in Iraq, but it captures the spirit of many experiences that were shared with me and with Aaron Taylor-Johnson and with John Cena.

I've been in many wars already.

Few Americans born after the Civil War know much about war. Real war. War that seeks you out. War that arrives on your doorstep - not once in a blue moon, but once a month or a week or a day.

You don't have to be in Nam to be in Nam.

You come back from war, and you have a certain authority to talk about war.

The Vietnam War totally turned my life around. Some people's lives were eliminated or destroyed by the experience. I was one of the fortunate few who came out better off.

I don't think I'd call myself a war writer, but I would probably say I'm a writer who has written about war.

War was my university. Everything has proceeded from there.

I was interested in the war part of 'Star Wars,' so I started reading about what it's like to go to war, what that does to you psychically, about the adrenaline and the rush.

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

The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of soldiering at a time when we were being gung-ho about the whole thing of war.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can.

I feel that I am nine years old, seven and a half years in the Afghan Jihad, one and a half years in Jihad in Palestine and the rest of the years have no value.

'American Sniper' is a movie. War is a grim reality and with us still.

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

People always assume I was in a motorcycle wreck. My response to them: no, Taliban.

Both of my grandfathers served in World War II, both in the Pacific. One wouldn't talk about it, and one would.

As one who participated in all the wars of the state of Israel, I saw the horror of wars. I saw the fear of wars. I saw my best friends being killed in battles. I was seriously injured twice.

Quite a few of the dogs that come back from Afghanistan or Iraq or police dogs that are involved in violent confrontations where there's gunfire can in fact exhibit the symptoms and suffer from PTSD.

The military lead turbulent lives, but they are people like everybody else.

To achieve something in Afghanistan is difficult; to maintain it is much more difficult.

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.