"Well ain't that a bitch... All I wanted to do was to sail my boat, man, you know? Navigate by the stars, see dolphins race alongside, you know, maybe even kill a few of them."

"Melanie Tolbert - Jamie (Associate #5)"

"Perrey Reeves - Jessie (Associate #4)"

"Theresa Barrera - Janet (Associate #3)"

"Jennifer Morrison - Jade (Associate #2)"

"Stephanie March - Julie (Associate #1)"

"Benton Jennings - Maitre'D"

"Michelle Monaghan - Gwen"

"Rachael Huntley - Suzy Coleman"

"Chris Weitz - Martin Coleman"

"Keith David - Father"

"Adam Brody - Benjamin "The Tank" Danz"

"Kerry Washington - Jasmine"

"Vince Vaughn - Eddie"

"Angelina Jolie - Jane Smith"

"Brad Pitt - John Smith"

"Eddie: I live with my mom because I choose to. She's the only woman I've ever trusted."

"Jane Smith: Happy endings are just stories that haven't finished yet."

"Option A: You talk, we listen, no pain. Option B: You don't talk, I remove your thumbs with my pliers, it will hurt. Option C: I like to vary the details a bit but the punch line is you die."

"We have an unusual problem here, Jane. You obviously want me dead, and I'm less and less concerned for your well-being."

"I guess that's what happens in the end, you start thinking about the beginning."

"Genocide doesn't compare to this."

"Lenore Kasdorf — Mrs. Rico"

"Marshall Bell — General Owen"

"Michael Ironside — Lieutenant Jean Rasczak"

"Patrick Muldoon — LT Zander Barcalow"

"Seth Gilliam — Private Sugar Watkins"

"Clancy Brown — Career Sergeant Zim"

"Neil Patrick Harris — Colonel Carl Jenkins"

"Jake Busey — Private Ace Levy"

"Denise Richards — LT/CAPT Carmen Ibanez"

"Dina Meyer — Pvt/Cpl Dizzy Flores"

"Casper Van Dien — Pvt/Cpl/Sgt/2nd Lt Johnny Rico"

"This Fall, TriStar Pictures takes you to the front lines of the next frontier."

"They came to our planet, they destroyed our cities. But on November 7, they'll learn, they messed with the wrong species."

"In every age there is a cause worth fighting for, but in the future the greatest threat to our survival will not be man at all. Now the youth of tomorrow must travel across the stars to face an enemy more devastating than any ever imagined."

"You can't step on these ones"

"Forget the insecticide, bring on the nukes!"

"Mankind just became an endangered species"

"The only good bug is a dead bug"

"When you battle 6 trillion enemies that will eat you alive, there are only two rules... EVERYONE FIGHTS. NO ONE QUITS."

"The paratroopers of the future are here... and their enemies aren't HUMAN"

"Prepare for Battle"

"It’s in Starship Troopers that Verhoeven does his job too well, essentially throwing a desperate warning at the audience that says, “The right action movie director can even make fascism look just this cool, guys.”"

"Even 20 years later, very few films’ endings have ever made me so completely question everything preceding them. It didn’t dawn on me the third or even the fifth time I saw this film that the ending is showing us that this has been, as I said before, a propaganda film from the opening shots. Are we seeing a movie that’s actually a dramatization of Johnny’s rise, starring some pampered actor and some disingenuous representation of the bugs? Is this the To Hell and Back of the Starship Troopers universe, with Johnny Rico playing himself, just as Audie Murphy did? I wasn’t old enough to “get” Starship Troopers when I first saw it. I found the violence shocking and off-putting as a teen. It wasn’t until later that the realization of why it’s such an ugly movie caught up with me. As a child, Verhoeven lived next to a Nazi military base in the Netherlands that became a target of allied bombings. The violence in his science fiction films is always brutal, but it’s the sickening sense of the characters being enveloped in a callous world over which they have no control that draws a line under the bullets and blood."

"All fascism is about Us vs. Them at base. The most insidious regimes encourage this enmity not just toward other states, but toward other citizens. It’s in the film’s second reel, when the young cadets all head off to boot camp, that we get a few more details about who is the Us and who is the Them. Some of Johnny’s fellow recruits want to do things like have children or start businesses—but the government regulates all those things and only citizens are allowed, or at least fast-tracked to permission. If you aren’t out there sacrificing your limbs for the military’s dumb wars, you don’t deserve any of society’s other benefits. One of the cadets gives a little shrug—perhaps the same one you did when they imposed the indoor smoking ban in your state. That’s just the way it is now."