The Best The Postman Quotes

Larry: I tried to be an actor when I was young. I wasn't a good actor, but now after seeing you at least I can die knowing I wasn't the worst one.
The: How much did you pay to get in, Larry? So bite me!

Postman: The President's name... is Richard Starkey!

The: Wouldn't it be great if wars could be fought just by the assholes who started them?

The: Can you ride?
Old: No, can't walk to good either.
The: So why are you here?
Old: I know stuff.

General: You see the reason you don't want to die for anything is because you have nothing to die for. That's the difference between you and me. You don't believe in anything.
The: I believe in the United States.

The: It takes one postman to make someone else a postman.
Ford: Sorta like vampires, huh?

The: Uh... Strangers... I hate this. Do they want to share what they got or take what you got? Do you say 'hi' or do you blow them away?

Postman: I know you. You're... famous.
Bridge: I was once... sorta.

[the Postman is performing Shakespeare]
The: It's a tale told by...
Piano: [prompting him] An idiot.
The: ...by a moron! Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Bridge: I heard of you, man. *You're* famous!
The: Yeah, I guess I am.

[Hours after The Postman arrived in town, a woman has asked to have his child]
The: It's gotta be the uniform.

The: You're no general. You're not even a good painter.

Luke: The General is a great man!
Postman: [incredulous] The General is a fucking lunatic!

Irene: [to the Postman] You're a godsend. A savior!
The: No, I'm... I'm just the Postman.

The: Tell me something: how much mail can a dead Postman deliver?

[Clutching a spoon as a weapon]
The: Don't make me use this.

Postman: When I was a kid, we all wore our hats backwards. We thought it was cool.

The: [shivering in the postal van, sees a skeleton] Hi, how you doing?

The: Once more into the breach, my friends, once more. We'll close the wall with our dead. In peace, nothing so becomes a man as modesty and humility, but when the blast of war blows in our ears, then imitate the action of the tiger, summon up the blood, disguise fair nature with rage and lend the eye a terrible aspect.