"The boat is rated to 90 metres, but of course we can go deeper. There's a limit somewhere. We can only take so much pressure... before the boat will be crushed."

"Mildew is good for you. It's the next best thing to fresh lettuce. Be thankful for what grows down here."

"Hail victory, and sink them all!"

"[drunk, in English] I am not in a condition to fuck!"

"[gives a drunken speech to the party in honor of his Knight's Cross] A toast to our wonderful, abstaining, womanless Führer. Who rose gloriously from apprentice painter to become the world's greatest battle strategist. What, isn't it true? He's the great naval expert who took it upon himself, in his wisdom...how does it go again...Who's been showing that English bedwetter, that cigar-chomping asshole Churchill, where to go stick his cigars!"

"[escaping from the British] They haven't spotted us! They're all snoring in their bunks! Or you know what? They're drinking in the bar! Celebrating our sinking! Not yet, my friends. Not yet!"

"Okay, men, now listen. We're going to blow out the water now and see if we can get our rear ends out of the sand. If we make it to the surface, things could still get pretty rough. Traffic's heavy up there. And we have to pray the engines start, so we can get out of this mess. The condition the boat is in, we have got to head straight for La Rochelle. If we make it... it's half a bottle of beer for each! There is one thing on our side; they won't be expecting us. Well men, all set?"

"[After a successful torpedo attack, and the sounds of the sinking ships fade away] Now it's their turn."

"[during the storm] The sea cannot claim us, Henrich. No ship is as seaworthy as ours."

"[to Werner, while they stand on the bridge, sailing through rough seas] There's nothing more beautiful than a submarine...and a sailboat! There are no better lines than those of a sailboat. I sailed on a three-masted schooner once. Gorgeous ship! It had holds the size of a cathedral! [he and Werner laugh]"

"[looking at a log of messages from other U-Boats] Our recent triumphs: "Dived to evade enemy aircraft; Lost contact." "Dived to evade destroyer; Depth charged." The British have stopped making mistakes."

"Our patrol planes! Where are they? Answer that one, Herr Göring! The British have plenty of them! Talking big is all he's good for, that fat slob."

"[After an alarm is sounded and an emergency dive is executed] April fool. Practice makes perfect."

"[referring to officers going to a 'cathouse' the night before shipping out] Scared fuckers. They need sex like the infantry needs alcohol."

"When I go home, people ask me, "Hey Hoot, why do you do it, man? Why? You some kind of war junkie?" I won't say a goddamn word. Why? They won't understand. They won't understand why we do it. They won't understand it's about the men next to you... and that's it. That's all it is."

"Y'know what I think? Don't really matter what I think. Once that first bullet goes past your head, politics and all that shit just goes right out the window."

"Look, these people... they have no jobs, no food, no education, no future. I just figure that you know, I mean, we have two things we can do. We can help, or we can sit back and watch a country destroy itself on CNN. Right?"

"Leave No Man Behind"

"This is the end..."

"The Horror. . . The Horror. . ."

"Cynthia Wood - Playmate of the year"

"Aurore Clement - Roxanne Sarrault"

"Scott Glenn - Lieutenant Richard M. Colby"

"Jerry Ziesmer - Jerry"

"G.D. Spradlin - Lieutenant General Corman"

"Harrison Ford - Colonel G. Lucas"