"[trying to stay awake] Pain will only strengthen my will. You can break my body, but you can't break my mind. Torture is the policy of tyrants. Resistance is my only weapon."

"You can break my body, but you can not break my mind!"

"Sign the confession, or suck my dick! Which ever you please, you tease!"

"Ninety-nine point ten percent of women who wear black underwear are closet whores."

"I don't like all this you know. I tell myself it's just a job and then in my dreams these words float by: Because thou hast the power and ownst the grace to see through and behind this mask of me, against which the years have beat thus blenchingly with their rains, and behold my soul's true face." It seems so long ago. My soul's true face."

"Your best hope would be to de-personalize what follows and not to look upon me as a foe or yourself as a victim. Remember, we are both seekers of truth, and in this quest, I am your friend, philosopher, and guide."

"You would do well to depersonalize what follows."

"Hold my cane. Let's step outside and I'll kick both of ya's ass like you stole something!"

"Huh my ass! Show me your best combination."

"Eddie, we told you about this drinking and drug sh** before, thinking you would calm down."

"Work it JT! Work it!"

"Choir Boy! Go to church! Go to church!"

"My office hours are from..."

"I'm just and ol' country boy, but I do work hard for my artists."

"Tell Jimmy he can't hide."

"He ain't gone be sh** neither. You ain't gonna be sh**, cause I ain't sh**."

"You sure you want to hang with ol’ Eddie Kane Jr."

"Nights like this…IIII wish…that raindrops would…fa-a-a-a-lll"

"How does it feel to be me?"

"Is there a heart? Is there a heart in the house tonight?"

"Duck! Yall,come on! Let’s do it like we did in the tunnel."

"Rosemary Murphy - Eleanor Roosevelt"

"Mekhi Phifer - Cdt. Lewis Johns"

"Cuba Gooding, Jr. - Lt. Billy "A-Train" Roberts"

"John Lithgow - Sen. Conyers"

"Daniel Hugh Kelly - Col. Rogers"

"Christopher McDonald - Maj. Sherman Joy"

"Andre Braugher - Lt. Col. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr."

"Courtney B. Vance - 2nd Lt. Glenn"

"Malcolm-Jamal Warner - Lt. Leroy Cappy"

"Allen Payne - Cdt. Walter Peoples"

"Laurence Fishburne - Capt. Hannibal "Iowa" Lee, Jr."

"They Were Our Country's Best Defense ... And Its Greatest Glory."

"The right spirit. The right attitude. The wrong color."

"You, people. Don't you know how bad we treat you, people? Serving your country? This ain't your country. Your country is full of apes and gorillas, malaria, missionaries..."

"The four elements: earth, air, water, and fire. Of these, I call your attention to two: air and fire. Though it is your privilege to live in the air, you will die by fire."

"[Cadet Johns has just died in a crash] Cadet Lewis Johns just taught you the most important lesson you'll learn here at Tuskegee. If you don't believe in God, you'd better find a damn good substitute."

"Every colored pilot in the 99th went through his private hell to wear those wings. Each of those men carries not only the dream of becoming American Military Aviators but the hopes of an entire people as well. Am I the only one here that understands what that means? I was brought up to believe that beneath it all Americans are a decent people with an abiding sense of integrity and fair play. The cheers I heard across this country when Joe Louis and Jesse Owens humiliated Hitler's "Master Race" didn't just come from proud colored folks. They came from everyone. How are we to interpret that? As a United States Army Officer who gladly puts his life on the line every day there's no greater conflict within me. How do I feel about my country? And how does my country feel about me? Are we only to be Americans when the mood suits you?"

"Friends die in our business and for a lot of reasons. And the only protection you have against losing one is not to have any."

"Jenny Agutter - Jill Mason"

"Joan Plowright - Dora Strang"

"Colin Blakely - Frank Strang"

"Peter Firth - Alan Strang"

"Richard Burton - Martin Dysart"

"Dora Strang: Alan is himself. Every soul is itself. If you added up everything we ever did to him, from his first day on earth to this, you wouldn't find why he did this terrible thing... because that's him: not just all of our things added up."

"And he said 'Behold, I give you Equus, my only begotten son.'"

"Prince begat Prance. And Prance begat Prankus. And Prankus begat Flankus. And Flankus begat Spankus. And Spankus begat Spunkus the Great, who lived threescore years. And Leckwus begat Neckwus. And Neckwus begat Fleckwus, the King of Spit. And Fleckwus spoke out of his chinkle-chankle..."

"'My uncle dressed for the horse', she says. But what does that mean? Horse isn't dressed, it's naked. It's the most naked thing you ever saw, more than a dog or a cat or anything. Even the brokenest-down old nag has got it's life - to put a bowler hat on top of it... it's filthy. Putting them through their paces, bloody horse shows, how do they dare? No-one understands, no-one. Except cowboys. They do. But they're free, they just swing up and it's nothing but miles of grass. I bet all cowboys are orphans. I bet they are. No-one ever says to cowboys 'receive my meaning' or 'God.' 'All the time God sees you, Alan, God's got eyes everywhere.' No, I'm not doing anymore, I hate this. You can whistle for anymore, I've had it."