"[closing narration] The Mercury program was over. Four years later, astronaut Gus Grissom was killed, along with astronauts White and Chaffee, when fire swept through their Apollo capsule. But on that glorious day in May 1963, Gordo Cooper went higher, farther, and faster than any other American. Twenty-two complete orbits around the world, he was the last American ever to go into space alone. And for a brief moment, Gordo Cooper became the greatest pilot anyone had ever seen."

"[opening narration] There was a demon that lived in the air. They said whoever challenged him would die. Their controls would freeze up, their planes would buffet wildly, and they would disintegrate. The demon lived at Mach 1 on the meter, 750 miles an hour, where the air could no longer move out of the way. He lived behind a barrier through which they said no man could ever pass. They called it... the sound barrier. Then, they built a small plane, the X-1, to try and break the sound barrier. And men came to the high desert in California to ride it. They were called test pilots. And no one knew their names."

"Hey, Ridley, ya got any Beeman's? Loan me some, will you — I'll pay you back later."

"It's important to America to get a man up there first. I'm planning on being the first man to ride the rocket."

"[about the original Mercury capsule, which lacked pilot controls] Anyone who goes up in that damn thing is gonna be spam in a can."

"Sam Shepard — Chuck Yeager"

"Let me put it this way. Do we hate them because they push their way in where they don't belong? Or do we hate them because they're clannish and keep to themselves? Because they're tight with money, or because they flash it around? Because they're Bolsheviks, or because they're capitalists? Because they have the highest IQs, or because they have the most active sex lives? Do you want to know the real reason we hate them? Because we hate them. Because they exist. Because it's an axiom of nature that just as man longs for woman, loves his children, and fears death, he hates Jews. There's no reason. If there were, some smartass kike would try to come up with an argument, try to prove us wrong. And of course that would only make us hate them more. You wanna know the real reason why we hate them? Because they exist. We have all the reasons we need in three simple letters. J-E-W... Jew! You say it a million times, it's the one word that never loses its meaning."

"You print that in the New York Times, Guy, and I'm gonna kill myself."

"A. D. Miles - Guy Danielsen"

"Henry Bean - Ilio Manzetti"

"Joshua Harto - Kyle"

"Elizabeth Reaser - Miriam"

"Jacob Green - Young Danny"

"Peter Sarsgaard - Walter Delacroix"

"R. Lee Ermey - Clyde Percy"

"Michael Cullen - Carl Vitello"

"Scott Wilson - Chaplain Farlely"

"Roberta Maxwell - Lucille Poncelet"

"Margo Martindale - Sister Colleen"

"Robert Prosky - Hilton Barber"

"Sean Penn - Matthew Poncelet"

"Lois Smith - Helen's mother"

"They won't care if you shot the gun. They'll be thinking of the crime. And of you as a monster. It's easy to kill a monster but hard to kill a human being."

"State trooper: I never gave a ticket to a nun before. I gave a ticket to a guy from the IRS one time. Got audited the next year. I'll tell you what, this time I'll let this one slide, but keep your speed down, yeah?"

"Susan Sarandon - Sister Helen Prejean"

"Jack Black - Craig Poncelet"

"I want the last face you see in this world to be the face of love, so you look at me when they do this thing. I'll be the face of love for you."

"Ain't nobody with money on death row."

"Look at you. Death is looking down your neck, and you're playing your little male come-on games."

"It's quiet. Only three days left. Plenty of time to read my Bible and look for a loophole."

"I just wanna say I think killin' is wrong, no matter who does it, whether it's me or y'all or your government."

"Celia Weston - Mary Beth Percy"

"Heather Goldenhersh - Linda"

"Roberto Gari - Ancient Jew"

"But we cannot pretend. The Jew is nothing if not clever. He will see through hypocrisy and condescension. To destroy him, we must love him sincerely. If the Jews are strengthened by hate, wouldn't this... destruction that you speak of, whether it's by love or any other means... wouldn't that make them more powerful than they are already? Yes. infinitely more. They would become as God. It's the Jews' destiny to be annihilated so they can be deified. Jesus understood this perfectly. And look what was accomplished there with the death of just one enlightened Jew. Imagine what would happen if we killed them all."

"I'm the only one who does believe. I see him for the power-drunk madman he is. And we're supposed to worship such a deity? I say never."

"Let me put it this way: Who wants to destroy the Jews? Who wants to grind their bones into the dust? And who wants to see them rise again? Wealthier, more successful, powerful, cultured, more intelligent than ever? Then you know what we have to do? We have to love 'em. What? Did he say Love the Jews? It's strange, I know. But with these people, nothing is simple. The Jew says all he wants is to be left alone to study his Torah... do a little business... fornicate with his oversexed wife,but it's not true. He wants to be hated. He longs for our scorn. He clings to it, as if it were the very core of his being. If Hitler had not existed, the Jews would've invented him. For without such hatred, the so-called Chosen People would vanish from the earth. And this reveals a terrible truth and the crux of our problem as Nazis. The worse the Jews are treated, the stronger they become. Egyptian slavery made them a nation. The pogroms hardened them. Auschwitz gave birth to the state of Israel. Suffering, it seems, is the very crucible of their genius. So, if the Jews are,as one of their own has said... a people who will not take yes for an answer... let us say yes to them. They thrive on opposition. Let us cease to oppose them. The only way to annihilate this insidious people once and for all... is to open our arms, invite them into our homes... and embrace them. Only then will they vanish into assimilation, normality and love."

"Ryan Gosling - Daniel "Danny" Balint"

"Garret Dillahunt - Billings"

"Summer Phoenix - Carla Moebius"