"[talks to the teenagers over their supplies] You think you're tough for eating beans every day? There's half a million scarecrows in Denver who'd give anything for one mouthful of what you got. They've been under siege for about three months. They live on rats and sawdust bread and sometimes... on each other. At night, the pyres for the dead light up the sky. It's medieval."

"[While giving guns to newly freed prisoners] C'mon! We're all going to die, die standing up!"

"Judd Omen - Nicaraguan Captain"

"Lane Smith - Mayor Bates"

"Pepe Serna - Mr. Mondragón"

"Roy Jenson - Mr. Samuel Morris"

"Frank McRae - Mr. Teasdale"

"Vladek Sheybal - General Bratchenko"

"William Smith - Colonel Strelnikov"

"Ron O'Neal - Colonel Ernesto Bella"

"Harry Dean Stanton - Tom Eckert"

"Ben Johnson - Mr. Jack Mason"

"Powers Boothe - Lt. Col. Andrew "Andy" Tanner, USAF"

"Doug Toby - Arturo "Aardvark" Mondragon"

"Brad Savage - Danny Bates"

"Jennifer Grey - Toni Mason"

"Darren Dalton - Daryl Bates"

"Charlie Sheen - Matt Eckert"

"Lea Thompson - Erica Mason"

"Radames Pera - Sgt. Stepan Gorsky"

"C. Thomas Howell - Robert Morris"

"Patrick Swayze - Jed Eckert"

"[briefing Soviet Army officers and troops about the Wolverines; in Russian] What I despise most about warfare, is the hypocrisy it often breeds. I've heard euphemisms that we are 'containing the enemy', that our 'sector of pacification is growing'. These are the tactics of the lie. Lies have the stench of death and defeat. You can only win a war by exterminating the enemy! Do you know who we are fighting? [points to board] We are fighting Wolverines: small, ferocious animals. For them, you need a hunter. And you know, I am a hunter. From this moment on, there will be no further reprisals against civilians. This was stupid. Impotence. Comrades, if a fox stole your chickens, would you slaughter your pig because he saw the fox? No! You would hunt down the fox, find where it lives and destroy it! How do we do this? Become a fox."

"I thought it was true to the book, and because it had the emotional gradient of the story. It was moving. I think I scared the shit out of Rob Reiner. He showed it to me in the screening room at the Beverly Hills Hotel. I was out there for something else, and he said, "Can I come over and show you this movie?" And you have to remember that the movie was made on a shoestring. It was supposed to be one of those things that opened in six theaters and then maybe disappeared. And instead it went viral. When the movie was over, I hugged him because I was moved to tears, because it was so autobiographical."

"[voiceover] I was 12 going on 13 first time I saw a dead human being. It happened in the summer of 1959. A long time ago. But only if you measure in terms of years. I was living in a small town in Oregon called Castle Rock. There were only 1281 people, but to me it was the whole world."

"Richard Dreyfuss - The Writer"

"Jason Oliver - Vince Desjardins"

"Bradley Gregg - Eyeball Chambers"

"Gary Riley - Charlie Hogan"

"Casey Siemaszko - Billy Tessio"

"Kiefer Sutherland - Ace Merrill"

"Jerry O'Connell - Vern Tessio"

"Corey Feldman - Teddy Duchamp"

"River Phoenix - Chris Chambers"

"Wil Wheaton - Gordie Lachance"

"[voiceover] As time went on we saw less and less of Teddy and Vern until eventually they became just two more faces in the halls. That happens sometimes. Friends come in and out of your life like busboys in a restaurant."

"[typing, about Chris] Although I haven't seen him in more than ten years I know I'll miss him forever. I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anybody?"

"Peter Mayhew as Chewbacca"

"James Earl Jones as the voice of Darth Vader"

"David Prowse as Darth Vader"

"Peter Cushing as Grand Moff Tarkin"

"Kenny Baker as R2-D2"

"Anthony Daniels as C-3PO"

"Alec Guinness as Obi-Wan (Ben) Kenobi"

"Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia Organa"

"Harrison Ford as Han Solo"

"Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker"

"The most important line in “Star Wars,” to me, is the moment Luke looks at the Millennium Falcon, the most beautiful ship I’ve ever seen, and says, “What a piece of junk!”"

"Before Star Wars I hadn’t experienced audience participation in a film since I was a kid. I used to sit there with a bag of popcorn and sing with the rest of the kids. And everybody used to shout “Look out behind you!? And all that. Then I saw Star Wars and it was amazing! I was knocked out. I thought, “God, this guy Lucas really knows what he’s doing!” Star Wars change my whole attitude about certain types of cinema that I‘m interested in."

"Hollywood industrialized mythology, and then weaponized it. It is widely believed that the Soviet Union folded because they couldn’t compete with America’s missile shield program, nicknamed Star Wars. I’d argue that the Soviets folded because they couldn’t compete with the movie Star Wars."