"Like all dogs, Skip was colorblind. He made friends easily with people of all races and origins. The town was segregated back then, but as we know, dogs are a whole lot smarter than people."

"In my life I find that memories of the spirit linger and sweeten long after memories of the brain have faded."

"Diane Lane as Ellen Morris"

"Kevin Bacon as Jack Morris"

"Luke Wilson as Dink Jenkins"

"Why in childhood and youth do we wish time to pass so quickly - we want to grow up so fast - yet as adults we wish just the opposite?"

"Frankie Muniz as Willie Morris"

"Queenie Smith - Alabam'"

"Gail Patrick - Elvira Rumford"

"Claude Gillingwater Sr. - General Rumford"

"John Miljan - Major Patterson"

"Edward Pawley - Joe Patterson"

"Fred Kohler - Captain Blackie"

"Paul Hurst - Hefty"

"Teresa Maxwell-Conover - Miss Markham"

"Libby Taylor - Lavinia"

"John Larkin - Rumbo"

"Five Cabin Kids - the Cabin Kids"

"Never mind what I told you! You do as I tell you!"

"I like women as I like elephants, I like to look at 'em but I wouldn't own one."

"Even a dead fish can float downstream."

"Whilst travelling through the Andes mountains, we lost our corkscrew. Had to live on food and water for several days!"

"Bing Crosby - Tom Grayson"

"W. C. Fields - Commodore Jackson"

"Joan Bennett - Lucy Rumford"

"P. J. Soles - Pvt. Wanda Winter"

"What, the Army couldn't afford drapes? I mean, I'll be up at the crack of dawn here!"

"Has anyone ever died from basic?"

"[After being issued with an Army uniform] Excuse me, sir, is green the only color these come in?"

"Goldie Hawn - Pvt. Judy Benjamin"

"Eileen Brennan - Capt. Doreen Lewis"

"Armand Assante - Henri Alan Tremont"

"Robert Webber - Col. Clay Thornbush"

"Sam Wanamaker - Teddie Benjamin"

"Barbara Barrie - Harriet Benjamin"

"Mary Kay Place - Pvt./2LT. Mary Lou Glass"

"Harry Dean Stanton - 1Sgt. Jim Ballard"

"Albert Brooks - Yale Goodman"

"Alan Oppenheimer - Rabbi"

"Lee Wallace - Mr. Waxman"

"Hal Williams - Sgt. L.C. Ross"

"Craig T. Nelson - Capt. William Woodbridge"

"Elizabeth Taylor - Maggie The Cat"

"Vaughn Taylor - Deacon Davis"

"Larry Gates - Dr. Baugh"

"Madeleine Sherwood - Mae Flynn Pollitt"

"Judith Anderson - Ida 'Big Mama' Pollitt"

"Jack Carson - Gooper Pollitt"