The D.I.

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

"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!"

"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."

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

"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."

"Jack Webb - Technical Sergeant Jim Moore"

"Don Dubbins - Private Owens"

"Lin McCarthy - Captain Anderson"

"Jackie Loughery - Annie"

"Virginia Gregg - Owens' mother"