Pearl Harbor (film)

"[addressing a row of USAAF flight officers and crew] The mission I am asking you to volunteer for is exceptionally dangerous. Take a look at the man beside you. It's a good bet that in the next six weeks, you, or he, will be dead. Everyone brave enough to accept this...step forward. [all of the men go forward]"

"Your grandma could take a B-25 off a mile-long runway. Well, I'm gonna train you to do it at 467 feet, because at 468 feet, you're dead, and once you get it up, you're gonna learn to fly it like a fighter. Thirty feet off the ground. I want you to say hello to Lt Jack Richards, Navy Aviation. He's gonna help us lighten these fat ladies here."

"Victory belongs to those who believe in it the most and believe in it the longest. We're gonna believe. We're gonna make America believe too."

"From Berlin, Rome and Tokyo, we have been described as a nation of weaklings and playboys who hire British or Russian or Chinese soldiers to do our fighting for us. Let them repeat that now. Let them tell that to General MacArthur and his men. Let them tell that to the soldiers who today are fighting hard in the far waters of the Pacific. Let them tell that to the boys in the Flying Fortresses. Let them tell that to the Marines."

"[to Evelyn] I should've died over there. When I was in that water, I made a deal with God. I told Him I was sorry, I told Him I knew I'd been a fool for leaving you and trying to go over there and be a hero, and I promised I'd never ask for anything again, if I could just see you one more time... And you know what? It was worth it. You kept me alive Evelyn; you brought me home. So I'm gonna stand by my end of the deal. I'm gonna walk away and I won't ask you for anything... but I just want to know why... Just tell me that will you please? Just tell me why."

"Rafe I'm pregnant... I didn't even know until the day you turned up alive... and then all this happened... I haven't told Danny... I don't want him to know. All he needs to think about is how to do this mission and get back alive. Oh Rafe, all I ever wanted was for us to have a home and grow old together, but life never asked me what I wanted. Now I'm going to give Danny my whole heart... but I don't think I'll ever look at another sunset without thinking of you... I'll love you my whole life."

"When the action is over and we look back, we understand both more and less. This much is certain. Before the Doolittle raid, America knew nothing but defeat. After it, nothing but victory. Japan realized, for the first time, that they could lose and began to pull back. America realized that she would win and surged forward. It was a war that changed America. Dorie Miller was the first black American to be awarded the Navy Cross, but he would not be the last. He joined a brotherhood of heroes. World War II, for us, began at Pearl Harbor, and 1,177 men still lie entombed in the battleship Arizona. America suffered, but America grew stronger. It was not inevitable. The times tried our souls...and through the trial, we overcame."

"The film has been directed without grace, vision, originality, and although you may walk out quoting lines of dialogue, it will not be because you admire them."

"It takes a moment to change history. It takes love to change lives."

"December 7, 1941 - It Was A Sunday Morning..."

"December 7, 1941 - A Surprise Attack That Changed Their Lives Forever"

"It was the end of innocence, and the dawn of a nation's greatest glory."

"December 7, 1941 - A day that shall live in infamy"

"Experience the event that changed the world."

"December 7, 1941 - The Day America Stood Still!"

"Ben Affleck - First Lieutenant (later Captain) Rafe McCawley"

"Josh Hartnett - First Lieutenant (later Captain) Daniel "Danny" Walker"

"Kate Beckinsale - Lieutenant Evelyn Johnson"

"Cuba Gooding, Jr. - Petty Officer Second Class Dorie Miller"

"Tom Sizemore - Earl"

"Jon Voight - President Franklin D. Roosevelt"

"Colm Feore - Admiral Husband E. Kimmel"

"Alec Baldwin - Major (later Lieutenant Colonel) Jimmy Doolittle"

"William Lee Scott - First Lieutenant Billy Thompson"

"Greg Zola - First Lieutenant Anthony Fusco"

"Ewen Bremmer - Fist Lieutenant Red Winkle"

"Jaime King - Nurse Betty Bayer"

"Catherine Kellner - Nurse Barbara"

"Jennifer Garner as Nurse Sandra"

"Michael Shannon - First Lieutenant Gooz Wood"

"Matt Davis - Joe"

"Mako - Kaigun Taishō (Admiral) Isoroku Yamamoto"

"Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa - Kaigun Chūsa (Commander) Minoru Genda"

"Dan Aykroyd - Captain Thurman"

"Reiley McClendon - Young Danny"

"Jesse James - Young Rafe"

"William Fichtner - Mr. Walker (Danny's father)"

"Steve Rankin - Mr. McCawley (Rafe's Father)"

"Scott Wilson - General George C. Marshall"

"Graham Beckel - Admiral Chester W. Nimitz"

"Tom Everett - Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox"

"Tomas Arana - Rear Admiral Frank J. "Jack" Fletcher"

"Sara Rue - Nurse Martha"

"Michael Milhoan - Army Commander"

"Peter Firth - Captain Mervyn S. Bennion"

"Andrew Bryaniarski - Joe the Boxer"

"Madison Mason - Admiral Raymond A. Spruance"

"Kim Coates - Lieutenant Jack Richards"

"Glenn Morshower - Rear Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey, Jr."

"Eric Christian Olsen - gunner to Captain McCawley"