"Okay, Hogs, I've listened to you bellyache about moving to this hew town. This said bellyaching will end as of 1530 hours, will not affect the morale of this squadron henceforth. Do I make myself clear?"

"I'm a Meechum. A Meechum's a thoroughbred, a winner all the way. He chews nails while the other kids eat cotton candy. He never surrenders. He never gives up."

"Julie Anne Haddock - Karen Meechum"

"Stan Shaw - Toomer Smalls"

"Robert Duvall - Lieutenant Colonel Wilbur "Bull" P. Meechum"

"Michael Strong - Colonel Varney"

"Blythe Danner - Lillian "Lil" Meechum"

"Theresa Merritt - Arrabelle Smalls"

"Paul Gleason - First Lieutenant Sammy"

"I'd like to propose a toast, to my son. He is eighteen today. He has just ordered his first drink. Before he drinks it, I'd like to wish him a long life, a wife as fine as his mother, and a son as fine as he's been. To my son!"

"Paul Mantee - Colonel Virgil "Virg" Hedgepath"

"Lisa Jane Persky - Mary Anne Meechum"

"Brian Andrews - Matthew Meechum"

"Michael O'Keefe - Ben Meechum"

"[addressing his fighter squadron] Morning. You men now have the privilege of serving under the meanest, toughest, screamingest commander in the Marine Corps- me. If I say something you pretend it's coming from the Burning Bush. We're Marines. Marine Corps fighter pilots. We have no other function. That is your mission, and you're gonna hack it or pack it! You're flying with Bull Meechum now, and I kid you not, this is the eye of the storm! Welcome aboard."

"Give him 12 weeks. He'll give you a Few Good Men."

"This is T/SGT. Jim Moore, toughest of the tough-guy Drill Instructors. One of the most powerful of all screen performances."

"Virginia Gregg - Owens' mother"

"It's hard to be a man when you've never had to be."

"Don Dubbins - Private Owens"

"Jackie Loughery - Annie"

"Jack Webb - Technical Sergeant Jim Moore"

"Lin McCarthy - Captain Anderson"

"To their faces, he called the recruits "clowns," "little girls," "maggots," "turds," and worse. Behind their backs, he called them wonderful."

"Sergeant Braver, my trusted companion, is going to allow you to double-time to chow this morning! Allow them to eat. After chow, permit them to return. When they return, grant them 2 minutes to prepare, square this area away, and stand by to fall out for close-order drill, DO YOU HEAR ME?! Because you were slow this morning, the smoking lamp will not be lit after morning chow. Now if you people don't show me anything today, if I keep getting this slow deal- we're gonna get together tonight and bust that sound barrier! DO YOU HEAR ME?!"

"I have told you people time and again! Your rifle is your best friend! You let it down and it'll sure let you down!"

"The recruits: strong, cocky, undisciplined. But they won't be United States Marines...until somebody stronger and cockier - and, above all, disciplined - gets done with them. Somebody like Jim Moore."

"William Murphy - PFC Eddie Flynn"

"Adele Mara - Allison Bromley"

"John Wayne - Sgt. John M. Stryker"

"James Holden - PFC Soames"

"Richard Jaeckel - PFC Frank Flynn"

"Julie Bishop - Mary"

"James Brown - PFC Charlie Bass"

"Wally Cassell - PFC Benny Regazzi"

"Richard Webb - PFC Dan Shipley"

"John Agar - PFC Peter Conway"

"Forrest Tucker - PFC Al Thomas"

"A great human story... makes a mighty motion picture."

"Arthur Franz - Corporal Robert Dunne / Narrator"

"Ten thousand sergeants in this corps and I gotta draw Stryker!"

"You know, my natural dislike for you is turning into a great hatred, Bass."

"Officer: [giving the pre-invasion briefing] Now, nobody knows exactly what they've got on this island, but they've had forty years to put it there."

"Alone and outnumbered, they had one thing in their favor... the American dream."

"My name is Stryker, Sergeant John M. Stryker. You're gonna be my squad - a rifle squad. Three of us have seen action: Corporal Dunn, Charlie Bass, and myself. You're gonna learn from us. In boot camp, you learned out of a book. Out here, you gotta remember the book and learn a thousand things that have never been printed, probably never will be. You gotta learn right and you gotta learn fast. And any man that doesn't want to cooperate, I'll make him wish he hadn't been born. Before I'm through with you, you're gonna move like one man and think like one man. If you don't, you'll be dead. Now, you guys have had a nice, easy day. I hope you enjoyed it because it's the last one you're gonna get for a long time. You joined the Marines because you wanted to fight. Well, you're gonna get your chance, and I'm here to see that you know how. If I can't teach you one way, I'll teach ya another. But I'm gonna get the job done. Any questions? That's all."

"You're still a shit sandwich... you're just not a soggy one. I will no longer refer to you as turds. From this day forward, you will be called maggots!"

"[To Emily about being married] Negative. I figure if the marines wanted me to have a wife, they'd of issued me one."

"[To the squad, while watching them all run wearing dresses] I tell you, ladies; you're the prettiest unit ever under my command! Gonna have to change my name to Pimp-Daddy Payne! A-hee hee hee!"

"ONE...don't you feel dumb. TWO...look at you! THREE...don't you ever make jokes about me behind my back or else I'll stomp you in the ground!"