"[to his son] You love playing with that. You love playing with all your stuffed animals. You love your Mommy, your Daddy. You love your pajamas. You love everything, don't ya? Yea. But you know what, buddy? As you get older, some of the things you love might not seem so special anymore. Like your Jack-in-a-Box. Maybe you'll realize it's just a piece of tin and a stuffed animal. And then you forget the few things you really love. And by the time you get to my age, maybe it's only one or two things. With me, I think it's one."

"This box is full of stuff that almost killed me."

"There's enough bang in there to blow us all to Jesus. If I'm gonna die, I want to die comfortable."

"You know you can always tell who cares about you the most, by who comes first to visit you in the hospital."

"Alon Abutbul - Al-Saleem"

"Ali Suliman - Omar Sadiki"

"Oscar Isaac - Bassam"

"Golshifteh Farahani - Aisha"

"Mark Strong - Hani"

"Russell Crowe - Ed Hoffman"

"Leonardo DiCaprio - Roger Ferris"

"Trust no one."

"Trust no one. Deceive everyone."

"In this world there's enough poverty and frustration and anger and passion. There will never be a shortage of martyrs."

"A man is not his job."

"So, what's changed is that our allegedly unsophisticated enemy has caught on to the factually unsophisticated truth...we're an easy target. We are an easy target and our world as we know it is a lot simpler to put to an end than you might think."

"Our enemy has realized that they are fighting guys from the future. Now, ahem, it is as brilliant as it is infuriating. If you live like it's the past, and you behave like it's the past then guys from the future find it very hard to see you. If you throw away your cell phone, shut down your e-mail pass all your instructions face-to-face, hand-to-hand turn your back on technology and just disappear into the crowd No flags. No uniforms. You got your basic grunts on the ground there. They're looking going, "Who is it we're fighting?" In a situation like this, your friends dress just like your enemies and your enemies dress like your friends. What I need you to fully understand is that these people, they do not wanna negotiate. Not at all. They want the universal caliphate established across the face of the Earth and they want every infidel converted or dead."

"Despite the fact we have markedly increased our operational intensity, we're not seeing any progress. What we're dealing with here is potentially a global conflagration that requires constant diligence in order to suppress."

"Do we belong there or do we not? It doesn't matter how you would answer that because we are there. We're tired, and we can't see the end. We can't even console ourselves that our enemy is just as tired as we are. Because they're not. It is a fallacy that prolonged war will weaken an occupied enemy. It most likely will make your enemy stronger. They get used to the deprivation, and they adapt and respond accordingly. While here at home with every death reported we have to deal with a public-opinion trajectory that slides rapidly from supportive to negative to downright hostile. People just get sick and tired of a moment's silence at a ball game. They just wanna be told that it's over."

"Now who pays the bills around here? I would hate to have to have my president call your king, because it's just gonna be embarrassing for all of us."

"People are stupid. Torture doesn't work. Under torture, a man will say almost anything to make the pain stop. You have experience with this, I am sure."

"Urgency does not call for changing methods that work, for methods that do not work."

"[To Al-Saleem:] But are you pure or are you just as corrupt as the capitalist Westerners that you despise? To me, you are fucking slaves. You're slaves to the Saudi oil sheiks and the Wahabi oil money that funds you. And when that oil money runs out, my friends you will all fucking disappear into the ashes of history."

"Watch and learn, my dear. Watch and learn."

"This is unusual. Your Ed Hoffman would rather have less information than share what he has with me."

"(to a reporter who heard Swofford say 'field fuck') He said 'field fun!'"

"Fucker's fucked now."

"Hey, fuck politics, all right? We're here. All the rest is bullshit."

"You laugh, you die. Scratch your nose, you die. You shift your weight to take a piss, you will die. You want to shit, you better shit in your pants."

"You are a Marine. There is no such thing as speech that is free. You must pay for everything that you say."

"I could be working with my brother right now. He's got a dry-wall business in Compton. Does the inside of office buildings — you know, the metal studs. I could be his partner. Said he'd give me that brand new Dodge Ram Charger — you know, the 318 Magnum? The beast? All indoor work, too, lots of AC. I could sleep with my wife every night, fuck her, maybe; take my kids to school every morning. And I'd run his crews, too, probably increase productivity 40 to 50%. Make $100K a year. Do you know why I don't? Because I love this job. I thank God for every fucking day he gives me in the Corps. Oorah."

"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for I am the baddest motherfucker in the goddamn valley."

"Four days, four hours, one minute. That was my war."

"Liz Stauber - Debbie Barlow"

"Judy Greer - Cathy Daitch"

"Holt McCallany - Captain Doug van Meter"

"Mykelti Williamson - Colonel Ron Horn"

"Saïd Taghmaoui - Captain Said"

"Jamie Kennedy - Private First Class Walter Wogaman"

"Nora Dunn - Adriana Cruz"

"Cliff Curtis - Amir Abdullah"

"Spike Jonze - Private First Class Conrad Vig"

"Ice Cube - Staff Sergeant Chief Elgin"

"Mark Wahlberg - Sergeant First Class Troy Barlow"