The Big Red One

"You're going to live, even if I have to blow your brains out."

"[choking the German male nurse who kissed him on the mouth] I can understand you being horny and all, Fritz... but you have bad breath."

"[narrating] The Bangalore Torpedo was 50 feet long and packed with 85 pounds of TNT and you assembled it along the way. By hand. I'd love to meet the asshole who invented it."

"[narrating] Saving that Kraut was the final joke of the whole goddamned war. I mean we had more in common with him than all our replacements who got killed whose names we never even knew. We'd all made it through we were alive. I'm gonna dedicate my book to those who shot but didn't get shot, because it's about survivors. And surviving is the only glory in war, if you know what I mean."

"[narrating] You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open and you see if he gets shot. They thought that one up at West Point."

"[narrating] By now we'd come to look at all replacements as dead men who temporarily had the use of the arms and legs. They came and went so fast and so regularly that sometimes we didn't even learn their names. Truth is, after a while, we sort of avoided gettin' to know them."

"[narrating] Those Sicilian women cooked us a terrific meal. It's too bad they were all over fifty. We were more horny than we were hungry."

"The real glory of war is surviving."

"Only chance could have thrown them together. Now, nothing can pull them apart."

"Lee Marvin - The Sergeant"

"Mark Hamill - Private Griff"

"Robert Carradine - Private Zab"

"Bobby Di Cicco - Private Vinci"

"Kelly Ward - Private Johnson"

"Siegfried Rauch - Feldwebel Schroeder"

"Marthe Villalonga - Madame Marbaise"

"Stéphane Audran - Walloon fighter"

"Perry Lang - Private Kaiser"

"Matteo Zoffoli - Matteo"