126 quotes found
"I remember my mother when she was dyin', looked all shrunk up and gray. I asked her if she was afraid. She just shook her head. I was afraid to touch the death I seen in her. I couldn't find nothin' beautiful or uplifting about her goin' back to God. I heard of people talk about immortality, but I ain't seen it. I wondered how it'd be like when I died, what it'd be like to know this breath now was the last one you was ever gonna draw. I just hope I can meet it the same way she did, with the same... calm. 'Cause that's where it's hidden - the immortality I hadn't seen."
"[voice over] We were a family. How'd it break up and come apart, so that now we're turned against each other? Each standing in the other's light. How'd we lose that good that was given us? Let it slip away. Scattered it, careless. What's keepin' us from reaching out, touching the glory?"
"Maybe all men got one big soul everybody's a part of, all faces are the same man."
"Wars don't ennoble men, it turns them into dogs, poisons the soul."
"Where's your spark now?"
"We're living in a world that's blowing itself to pieces as fast as everybody can arrange it."
"I might be the best friend you ever had, you don't even know it."
"What difference do you think you can make, one single man in all this madness? If you die, it's gonna be for nothing. There's not some other world out there where everything's gonna be okay. There's just this world. Just this rock."
"Property. The whole fucking thing's about property."
"Everything's a lie. Everything you hear, everything you see. So much to spew out. They just keep coming, one after another. You're in a box. A moving box. They want you dead, or in their lie... There's only one thing a man can do - find something that's his, and make an island for himself. If I never meet you in this life, let me feel the lack; a glance from your eyes, and my life will be yours."
"Why should I be afraid to die? I belong to you. If I go first, I'll wait for you there, on the other side of the dark waters. Be with me now."
"Love. Where does it come from? Who lit this flame in us? No war can put it out, conquer it. I was a prisoner. You set me free."
"[first lines, voice over] What's this war in the heart of nature? Why does nature vie with itself? The land contend with the sea? Is there an avenging power in nature? Not one power, but two?"
"[voice over] This great evil. Where does it come from? How'd it steal into the world? What seed, what root did it grow from? Who's doin' this? Who's killin' us? Robbing us of life and light. Mockin' us with the sight of what we might've known. Does our ruin benefit the earth? Does it help the grass to grow, the sun to shine? Is this darkness in you, too? Have you passed through this night?"
"One man looks at a dying bird and thinks there's nothing but unanswered pain. That death's got the final word, it's laughing at him. Another man sees that same bird, feels the glory, feels something smiling through it."
"[last lines, voice over] Where is it that we were together? Who were you that I lived with? Walked with? The brother. The friend. Darkness and light. Strife and love. Are they the workings of one mind? The features of the same face? Oh, my soul. Let me be in you now. Look out through my eyes. Look out at the things you made. All things shining."
"[voice over] I'm dying. Slow as a tree."
"[voice over] The closer you are to Caesar, the greater the fear."
"You're Greek, captain, aren't you? Did you ever read Homer? We read Homer at the Point. In Greek."
"[voice over] Shut up in a tomb. Can't lift the lid. Playing a role I never conceived."
"You attack hard and center! Go straight up that goddamn hill!"
"You are not taking your men into the jungle, to avoid a goddamn fight! Now, I want you to attack, I want you to attack right now with every man at your disposal!"
"How many men do you think it's worth? How many lives? One? Two? Three? Twenty? Lives will be lost in your company, Captain. If you don't have the stomach for it, now is the time to let me know."
"Look at this jungle. Look at the vines, the way they twine around the trees, swallowing everything. Nature's cruel, Staros."
"Are you righteous? Kind? Does your confidence lie in this? Are you loved by all? Know that I was, too. Do you imagine your sufferings will be less because you loved goodness? Truth?"
"Every man fights his own war."
"Sean Penn - 1st Sgt. Edward Welsh"
"Adrien Brody - Cpl. Fife"
"Jim Caviezel - Pvt. Witt"
"Ben Chaplin - Pvt. Bell"
"George Clooney - Capt. Bosche"
"John Cusack - Capt. Gaff"
"Woody Harrelson - Sgt. Keck"
"Elias Koteas - Cpt. Staros"
"Nick Nolte - Lt. Col. Tall"
"John C. Reilly - Sgt. Storm"
"Bush told the people to rise up against Saddam. They thought they'd have our support. They don't. Now they're getting slaughtered."
"It's good to be kings."
"In a war without heroes they are kings."
"They're deserters, rebels, and thieves, but in the nicest possible way."
"George Clooney - Major Archie Gates"
"Mark Wahlberg - Sergeant First Class Troy Barlow"
"Ice Cube - Staff Sergeant Chief Elgin"
"Spike Jonze - Private First Class Conrad Vig"
"Cliff Curtis - Amir Abdullah"
"Nora Dunn - Adriana Cruz"
"Jamie Kennedy - Private First Class Walter Wogaman"
"Saïd Taghmaoui - Captain Said"
"Mykelti Williamson - Colonel Ron Horn"
"Holt McCallany - Captain Doug van Meter"
"Judy Greer - Cathy Daitch"
"Liz Stauber - Debbie Barlow"
"What, the Army couldn't afford drapes? I mean, I'll be up at the crack of dawn here!"
"Has anyone ever died from basic?"
"[After being issued with an Army uniform] Excuse me, sir, is green the only color these come in?"
"Goldie Hawn - Pvt. Judy Benjamin"
"Eileen Brennan - Capt. Doreen Lewis"
"Armand Assante - Henri Alan Tremont"
"Robert Webber - Col. Clay Thornbush"
"Sam Wanamaker - Teddie Benjamin"
"Barbara Barrie - Harriet Benjamin"
"Mary Kay Place - Pvt./2LT. Mary Lou Glass"
"Harry Dean Stanton - 1Sgt. Jim Ballard"
"Albert Brooks - Yale Goodman"
"Alan Oppenheimer - Rabbi"
"Lee Wallace - Mr. Waxman"
"Hal Williams - Sgt. L.C. Ross"
"P. J. Soles - Pvt. Wanda Winter"
"Craig T. Nelson - Capt. William Woodbridge"
"The mother of all movies!"
"There's something funny in the air."
"Unprecendented! Uncut! Under 10 dollars!"
"Charlie Sheen - LT Sean "Topper" Harley"
"Cary Elwes - LT Kent Gregory"
"Valeria Golino - Ramada Thompson"
"Lloyd Bridges - RADM Thomas "Tug" Benson"
"Kevin Dunn - LCDR James Block"
"Jon Cryer - LT Jim "Wash Out" Pfaffenbach"
"William O'Leary - LT Pete "Dead Meat" Thompson"
"Kristy Swanson - Kowalski"
"Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. - Wilson"
"Bill Irwin - Leland "Buzz" Harley"
"Ryan Stiles - Dominic "Mailman" Farnum"
"Heidi Swedberg - Mary Thompson"
"Rino Thunder - Owatonna 'The Old One'"
"Charles Barkley - himself"
"Bill Laimbeer - himself"
"Jerry Haleva - Saddam Hussein"
"Gene Greytak - Pope John Paul II"
"You syphilitic Bolshevik! You pervert! You pussy Communist!"
"Sergeant major Zack Carey believed in Truth, Justice and America. Until the sheriff of a little town put his only son into jail of a crime he hadn't done. And now sergeant major Zack Carey has changed his mind. (original Finnish poster tagline)"
"A tank a day keeps the law away. (DVD tagline)"
"Sergeant-Major Zack Carey takes the law into his own hands with help from his own personal tank (Video Australia)"
"James Garner's at war -- and driving a Sherman Tank"
"James Garner - CSM Zack Carey"
"Shirley Jones - LaDonna Carey"
"C. Thomas Howell - William "Billy" Carey"
"Mark Herrier - SSG Jerry Elliott, Soldier Magazine Reporter"
"Sandy Ward - MG V.E. Hubik"
"Jenilee Harrison - Sarah"
"James Cromwell - Deputy Euclid Baker"
"Dorian Harewood - SFC Ed Tippet, Provost Marshal's Office"
"G. D. Spradlin - Sheriff Cyrus Buelton"
"John Hancock - Mess MSG Johnson"
"Guy Boyd - SGT Wimofsky"
"Randy Bass - Governor's Aide"
"Who wants to play lets start shootin' people?"
"With the shortage of guys and no draft, they're shipping back soldiers who's supposed to be gettin' out."
"I'm not going back. I'm fightin' this thing."
"Fuck the president!"
"Here's your new ID. If you go, you're gone for good."
"Ryan Phillippe - Brandon King"
"Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Tommy Burgess"
"Rob Brown - Isaac 'Eyeball' Butler"
"Channing Tatum - Steve Shriver"
"Victor Rasuk - Rico Rodriguez"
"Quay Terry - Al 'Preacher' Colson"
"Matthew Scott Wilcox - Harvey"
"Connett Brewer - Curtis"
"Timothy Olyphant - Lt. Col. Boot Miller"
"Josef Sommer - Senator Orton Worrell"
"Linda Emond - Ida King"
"Ciarán Hinds - Roy King"
"Mamie Gummer - Jeanie"
"Abbie Cornish - Michelle"
"Alex Frost - Shorty"