"The decisions you make now, bud, can't be changed but with years and years of hard work to redo it... And in those years you become something different. Everybody does as the time passes. You get married, you get into debt... But you're never gonna be the same person you are right now. And promise and potential... It's very fickle, and it just might not be there anymore."

"Michael Murphy - Ambassador Thomas Kelly"

"John Savage - John Cassady"

"Elpidia Carrillo - María"

"Cindy Gibb - Cathy Moore"

"Tony Plana - Major Maximiliano 'Max' Casanova"

"Colby Chester - Jack Morgan- State Department Analyst"

"Will MacMillan - Colonel Bentley Hyde Sr."

"[about the government in El Salvador] A pathological killer on the right, God-knows-what on the left, and a gutless middle."

"James Woods - Richard Boyle"

"You gotta get close to get the truth. You get too close, you die."

"Jim Belushi - Doctor Rock"

"Left-wing, Colonel? Eh, maybe. But I'm not a Communist. And you guys never seem to be able to tell the difference!"

"Is that why you're here, Colonel? Some kind of post-Vietnam experience like you need a rerun or something? You pour a hundred twenty million bucks into this place, you turn it into a military zone, so what, so you can have chopper parades in the sky?"

"You let them close down the universities, you let them wipe out the best minds in the countries, you let them kill whoever they want, you let them wipe out the Catholic Church, you let them do it all because they aren't Commies! And that, Colonel, is bull shit!"

"[to his captors] I hope you all get anal herpes!"

"John Savident - Major-General Karl Freiherr von Müffling"

"Orso Maria Guerrini - Officer"

"Richard Heffer - Mercer"

"Orazio Orlando - Constant"

"Veronica De Laurentiis - Magdalene DeLancey"

"Vladimir Druzhnikov - Gerard"

"Peter Davies - Ensign James Hay, Lord Hay"

"Willoughby Gray - Ramsey"

"Oleg Vidov - Tomlinson"

"Roger Green - Duncan"

"Charles Borromel - Mulholland"

"Terence Alexander - Lieutenant-General Henry Paget, 2nd Earl of Uxbridge"

"Andrea Checchi - Soldier of the Old Guard"

"Sergo Zakariadze - Field Marshal Gebhard von Blücher, Fürst von Wahlstatt"

"Donal Donnelly - Corporal O'Connor (as Donald Donnelly)"

"Ivo Garrani - Marshal Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult"

"Ian Ogilvy - Colonel Sir William Howe DeLancey"

"Charles Millot - Marshal Emmanuel de Grouchy, Marquis de Grouchy"

"Michael Wilding - Major-General The Honourable Sir William Ponsonby"

"Dan O'Herlihy - Marshal Michel Ney"

"Rupert Davies - Colonel Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon"

"Virginia McKenna - Charlotte Lennox, Duchess of Richmond"

"Philippe Forquet - Brigadier-General Charles de la Bédoyère"

"Gianni Garko - Major-General Antoine Drouot"

"Yevgeny Samoylov - Brigadier-General Pierre Cambronne"

"Jack Hawkins - Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Picton"

"Jeffry Wickham - Colborne"

"Susan Wood - Lady Sarah Lennox"

"Gennadi Yudin - Chactas"

"ONE INCREDIBLE AFTERNOON NAPOLEON MET WELLINGTON...AT WATERLOO"

"Waterloo. The battle that changed the face of the world."

"[launching his attack on the French right] Raise high the black flags, children. No pity. No prisoners. I'll shoot any man I see with pity in him. Forward!"

"The Men, the Battle, The Glory, The World Will Remember Forever"

"I am France, and France is me!"