"I'll tell you what you could do if you went away, Zan: if you could find some place where they pay wages for talkin' silly, you could make a fortune"

"Carl Benton Reid - Oscar Hubbard"

"Henry 'Hot Shot' Thomas - Harold"

"Bette Davis - Regina Hubbard Giddens"

"Richard Carlson - David Hewitt"

"Patricia Collinge - Birdie Hubbard"

"Terry Nibert - Julia"

"Charles R. Moore - Simon"

"Jessica Grayson - Addie"

"Teresa Wright - Alexandra "Zannie" Giddens"

"I was lonely when I was young. Not in the way people usually mean. I was lonely for all the things I wasn't gonna get."

"I hope you die! I hope you die soon! I'll be waiting for you to die!"

"Herbert Marshall - Horace Giddens"

"Dan Duryea - Leo Hubbard"

"John Marriott - Cal"

"Virginia Brissac - Mrs. Hewitt"

"Charles Dingle - Ben Hubbard"

"Maybe it's easy for the dying to be honest. I'm sick of you, sick of this house, sick of my unhappy life with you. I'm sick of your brothers and their dirty tricks to make a dime. There must be better ways of getting rich than building sweatshops and pounding the bones of the town to make dividends for you to spend. You'll wreck the town, you and your brothers. You'll wreck the country, you and your kind, if they let you. But not me, I'll die my own way, and I'll do it without making the world worse. I leave that to you."

"Lucien Littlefield - Manders"

"Russell Hicks - William Marshall"

"Sam Edwards - Birdwell"

"Robert Patten - Lt. Bishop"

"Millard Mitchell - Maj. Gen. Pritchard"

"Gary Merrill - Col. Keith Davenport"

"Dean Jagger - Major Harvey Stovall"

"Lee MacGregor - Lt. Zimmerman"

"That is not why I am drunk tonight. I got drunk because I am confused. I was thinking, which is a thing a man should not do, and all at once I couldn't remember what any of them looked like. I, I couldn't see their faces, Bishop, Cobb, Wilson, Zimmy, all of them. All of you. They all looked alike, just one face. And it was very young. It confused me. I think I shall stay drunk until I'm not confused anymore."

"[addressing the 918th for the first time at 0800] There will be a briefing for a practice mission at 1100 this morning. That's right, practice. I've been sent here to take over what has come to be known as a hard luck group. Well, I don't believe in hard luck. So we're going to find out what the trouble is. Maybe part of it's your flying, so we're going back to fundamentals. But I can tell you now one reason I think you've been having hard luck. I saw it in your faces last night. I can see it there now. You've been looking at a lot of air lately... and you think you ought to have a rest. In short, you're sorry for yourselves. I don't have a lot of patience with this, "What are we fighting for?" stuff. We're in a war, a shooting war. We've got to fight. And some of us have got to die. I'm not trying to tell you not to be afraid. Fear is normal. But stop worrying about it and about yourselves. Stop making plans. Forget about going home. Consider yourselves already dead. Once you accept that idea, it won't be so tough. Now if any man here can't buy that... if he rates himself as something special, with a special kind of hide to be saved... he'd better make up his mind about it right now. Because I don't want him in this group. I'll be in my office in five minutes. You can see me there."

"Capt. 'Doc' Kaiser: [referring to Gen. Savage's complete collapse in a state of shock] Did you ever see how bright a light bulb is just before the filament burns out? I think they call it maximum effort."

"John Craven - Tobey George"

"Donna Reed - Bess Macauley"

"Ann Ayars - Mrs. Sandoval"

"Gregory Peck - Brig. Gen. Frank Savage"

"[to Homer Macauley and Hubert Ackley, whom she detained after class] You'll both learn that every man in the world is better than somebody else. And not as good as somebody else. In a democratic state every man is equal to every other man up to the point of exertion. And then every man is free to exert himself to do good or not. To grow nobly, or foolishly. I'm eager for my boys and girls to exert themselves to do good and grow nobly. I want you to understand that each of you will begin to be real men and truly human when in spite of your differences with one another you still respect one another. That's what it means to be civilized."

"Willie Grogan: If you behold me lost in the embrace of alcohol, greet me as you pass but make no reference to my condition. I'm rather a sensitive man and I prefer not to be the object of public solicitude."

"[to his fellow soldier Tobey, while they're on KP duty] Oh, we're poor. Always have been. My father was a great man. Not a success. Didn't make any more money than what we needed, ever... He worked in the vineyards, in the packing houses and wineries. If you saw him in the street you'd think he was nobody. But he was a great man. The only thing he cared about was his family. Ma and his kids. He saved up and made a down payment on a harp. Ha! Yeah, nobody plays a harp anymore, but that's what ma wanted, so he got her one. Took him five years to pay for it. We used to think every house had a harp just because we had one. And I thought everybody was great like him, until I got out and met some of them. Oh, they're all right, but they're not great."

"[last line] Ya see Marcus, the ending is only the beginning."

"Mrs. Steed: Diana only seems a fool - she isn't really."

"Ray Collins - Mr. Macauley"

"Van Johnson - Marcus Macauley"

"Jackie Jenkins - Ulysses Macauley"

"Dorothy Morris - Mary Arena"

"Mary Nash - Miss Hicks"

"Henry O'Neill - Charles Steed"

"Rights, Gately? You've got a right to explain to General Pritchard cowardice, desertion of your post, a yellow streak a mile wide! And maybe he can explain it to your father so that they'll both be proud of you! You can tell him right now."

"[about Keith Davenport] He's gonna bust wide open. And he's gonna do it to himself, too. Why? Because he's a first rate guy... "over-identification with his men." I think that's what they call it."

"You must remember always to give, of everything you have. You must give foolishly even. You must be extravagant. You must give to all who come into your life. Then nothing and no one shall have power to cheat you of anything, for if you give to a thief, he cannot steal from you, and he himself is then no longer a thief. And the more you give, the more you will have to give."

"Mickey Rooney - Homer Macauley"

"Marsha Hunt - Diana Steed"

"Fay Bainter - Mrs. Macauley"