"In 1941, on the eve of the United States' entry into the Second World War, York consented to having his diary adapted to film, personally selecting Gary Cooper to portray him as a condition for the filming. The film would be universally acclaimed as one of the best film biographies of all time, earning an Oscar for Best Actor for Cooper and an Oscar nomination for Best Picture. It was a straightforward adaptation of the diary with very little Hollywood embellishment; the only embellishment which York acknowledged was that the film showed his born-again Christianity as due to being struck by lightning on his way to a confrontation with a rival, whereas it was actually simply his meeting his future wife and falling in love."

"Sgt. Early: [at the target range] Remember, guys, you're usin' real live ammunition! A bullet hasn't got any brains! It'll hit whatever you're aimin' at, so don't start murdering each other!"

"Ike Botkin: Ain't nobody ever cut 5 centers, lessen' it were Dan'l Boone."

"Folks say you're no good, 'ceptin' for fighting and hell-raising."

"I ain't a-goin' to war. War's killin', and the book's agin' killin! So war is agin' the book!"

"The Lord sure do move in mysterious ways."

"What we done in France, we had to do. And some as done it, didn't come back, and that kind of thing ain't for buying and selling."

"A great human story... makes a mighty motion picture."

"Julie Bishop - Mary"

"Adele Mara - Allison Bromley"

"William Murphy - PFC Eddie Flynn"

"Richard Jaeckel - PFC Frank Flynn"

"James Holden - PFC Soames"

"Arthur Franz - Corporal Robert Dunne / Narrator"

"Richard Webb - PFC Dan Shipley"

"James Brown - PFC Charlie Bass"

"Wally Cassell - PFC Benny Regazzi"

"Forrest Tucker - PFC Al Thomas"

"John Agar - PFC Peter Conway"

"John Wayne - Sgt. John M. Stryker"

"Alone and outnumbered, they had one thing in their favor... the American dream."

"Officer: [giving the pre-invasion briefing] Now, nobody knows exactly what they've got on this island, but they've had forty years to put it there."

"You know, my natural dislike for you is turning into a great hatred, Bass."

"Ten thousand sergeants in this corps and I gotta draw Stryker!"

"My name is Stryker, Sergeant John M. Stryker. You're gonna be my squad - a rifle squad. Three of us have seen action: Corporal Dunn, Charlie Bass, and myself. You're gonna learn from us. In boot camp, you learned out of a book. Out here, you gotta remember the book and learn a thousand things that have never been printed, probably never will be. You gotta learn right and you gotta learn fast. And any man that doesn't want to cooperate, I'll make him wish he hadn't been born. Before I'm through with you, you're gonna move like one man and think like one man. If you don't, you'll be dead. Now, you guys have had a nice, easy day. I hope you enjoyed it because it's the last one you're gonna get for a long time. You joined the Marines because you wanted to fight. Well, you're gonna get your chance, and I'm here to see that you know how. If I can't teach you one way, I'll teach ya another. But I'm gonna get the job done. Any questions? That's all."

"Charles Laughton - Judge Lord Thomas Horfield"

"Alida Valli - Mrs. Maddalena Anna Paradine"

"Ann Todd - Gay Keane"

"Gregory Peck - Anthony "Tony" Keane"

"Well, nice people don't go murdering other nice people."

"I have nothing more to say to you, Mr. Keane. I loved Andre Latour... and you murdered him. My life is finished; it is you yourself who have finished it. My only comfort is the hatred and contempt I feel for you!"

"You are not to destroy him - if you do, I shall hate you as I've never hated a man."

"She had patience. She could wait. This was, indeed, no ordinary woman."

"Isobel Elsom - Innkeeper"

"Leo G. Carroll - Sir Joseph"

"Louis Jourdan - Andre Latour"

"Ethel Barrymore - Lady Sophie Horfield"

"Joan Tetzel - Judy Flaquer"

"Charles Coburn - Sir Simon Flaquer"

"She was a good cook, as good cooks go. And as good cooks go, she went."

"What goes to make a rose, ma'am, is breeding... and budding... and horse-manure, if you'll pardon the expression...And that's where you come in, ma'am."

"I know how comfortable it is to curl up with a nice, fat book full of big words and think you're going to solve all the problems in the universe. But you're not, you know. A bit of action is required every now and then."