"[Speaking as an actor on the show.] It's all true. It’s all real. Nothing here is fake. Nothing you see on this show is fake. It’s merely controlled."

"[Christof looks in a monitor & sees Truman sailing on the sea] Where you going, Truman?"

"I am the creator... of a television show"

"I've given Truman the chance to lead a normal life. The world, the place you live in is the sick place. Seahaven is the way the world should be."

"That's our hero shot."

"Cue the sun!"

"If his was more than just a vague ambition, if he [Truman] was absolutely determined to discover the truth, there's no way we could prevent him."

"We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented, it's as simple as that."

"[After credits at end of movie] ,"I knew this show was fake from the start, it was my incredible acting that fooled everyone""

"[watching himself in the mirror in the bathroom] I here by proclaim this planet as Trumania of the Burbank Galaxy!"

"You never had a camera in my head!"

"[after startling two control room directors by seemingly talking to them, then easing their concerns by seeming to revert back to his eccentricity, whilst they look at their notes temporarily] That one's for free."

"[to Meryl who is threatening him with a kitchen utensil] What are you gonna do? Slice me, dice me or peel me? There are so many choices."

"[Sailing away in the artificially roughened winds and seas] Is that the best you can do? You're gonna have to kill me! [sings] What do ya do with a drunken sailor? What do ya do with a drunken sailor? What do ya do with a drunken sailor ear-lye in the mor-nin'!"

"Somebody help me, I'm being spontaneous!"

"The early bird gathers no moss! The rolling stone catches the worm!"

"You can't get any further away, before you start coming back."

"Good morning, and in case I don't see ya: Good afternoon, good evening, and good night!"

"This Ryan better be worth it. He better go home and cure some disease, or invent a longer-lasting light bulb, or something. Because to tell you the truth, I wouldn't trade ten Ryans for one Vecchio or one Caparzo."

"Like finding a needle in a stack of needles."

"[In the Higgins boat landing craft before the assault] Move fast and clear those murder holes. . . . Keep the sand out of your weapons. Keep those actions clear. I'll see you on the beach."

"Jeremy Davies - Corporal Upham"

"Giovanni Ribisi - Medic Wade"

"Vin Diesel - Private Caparzo"

"Adam Goldberg - Private Mellish"

"Barry Pepper - Private Jackson"

"Edward Burns - Private Reiben"

"Matt Damon - Private Ryan"

"Tom Sizemore - Sergeant Horvath"

"Tom Hanks - Captain Miller"

"There was only one man left in the family, and the mission was to save him."

"In the last great invasion of the last great war, The greatest challenge for eight men... was saving one."

"The mission is a man."

"[Older James Ryan at Captain Miller's grave] My family is with me today. They wanted to come with me. To be honest with you, I wasn't sure how I'd feel coming back here. Every day I think about what you said to me that day on the bridge. And I've tried to live my life the best I could. I hope that was enough. I hope that at least in your eyes, I've earned what all of you have done for me."

"Tell her that when you found me, I was here, and I was with the only brothers that I have left. And that there's no way I was gonna desert them."

"Saving Private Ryan, Steven Spielberg's summer 1998 "blockbuster," is noteworthy [among other reasons for] its recreation of the experience of combat . . . . [A]udiences will surely remember [the film's] attention to the realities of battle . . . . Private Ryan is not anti-war; rather, it is a bloody memorial to the veterans of the crusade against Hitler. . . . We may leave the film with the conviction that war is hell, but not the belief that this war was unworthy of sacrifice. . . . The scene in which Private Ryan's mother sees the priest emerge from the car and she realizes that someone has been killed (she does not yet know that three of her sons are dead) is as powerful as any of the action scenes: She steps out onto the porch and in silent agony slowly sits down to await the news . . . . [Saving Private Ryan] takes the history of combat seriously [and for that] military historians, at least, owe Spielberg a debt. And for those who never saw a battle, Spielberg has enriched the imagination."

"I don't know. Part of me thinks the kid's right. What's he done to deserve this? He wants to stay here, fine. Let's leave him and go home. But another part of me thinks, what if we stay, and by some miracle we actually make it out of here alive? Someday we might look back on this and decide that saving Private Ryan was the one decent thing we were able to pull out of this whole godawful, shitty mess. And like you said, Captain: We do that, we all earned the right to go home."

"[Dying words, to Private Ryan] James... earn this. Earn it."

"You see, when...when you end up killing one of your men, you tell yourself it happened so you could save the lives of two or three or ten others. Maybe a hundred others."

"Rusty Schwimmer - Irene 'Big Red' Johnson"

"Michael Ironside - Bob Brown"

"Bob Gunton - Alexander McAnally III"

"Cherry Jones - Edie Bailey"

"Karen Allen - Melissa Brown"

"Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio - Linda Greenlaw"