"[trying to stay awake] Pain will only strengthen my will. You can break my body, but you can't break my mind. Torture is the policy of tyrants. Resistance is my only weapon."

"What made you this way? Is it what they did to you? Or is it some hidden sickness, an inner decay?"

"Sign the confession, or suck my dick! Which ever you please, you tease!"

"Your best hope would be to de-personalize what follows and not to look upon me as a foe or yourself as a victim. Remember, we are both seekers of truth, and in this quest, I am your friend, philosopher, and guide."

"I don't like all this you know. I tell myself it's just a job and then in my dreams these words float by: Because thou hast the power and ownst the grace to see through and behind this mask of me, against which the years have beat thus blenchingly with their rains, and behold my soul's true face." It seems so long ago. My soul's true face."

"No one can harm you in your imagination."

"Ninety-nine point ten percent of women who wear black underwear are closet whores."

"Cuba Gooding, Jr. - Lt. Billy "A-Train" Roberts"

"Mekhi Phifer - Cdt. Lewis Johns"

"Rosemary Murphy - Eleanor Roosevelt"

"John Lithgow - Sen. Conyers"

"Madeleine Stowe - Victim"

"Christopher McDonald - Maj. Sherman Joy"

"Daniel Hugh Kelly - Col. Rogers"

"You would do well to depersonalize what follows."

"Laurence Fishburne - Capt. Hannibal "Iowa" Lee, Jr."

"Allen Payne - Cdt. Walter Peoples"

"Malcolm-Jamal Warner - Lt. Leroy Cappy"

"They Were Our Country's Best Defense ... And Its Greatest Glory."

"The four elements: earth, air, water, and fire. Of these, I call your attention to two: air and fire. Though it is your privilege to live in the air, you will die by fire."

"You, people. Don't you know how bad we treat you, people? Serving your country? This ain't your country. Your country is full of apes and gorillas, malaria, missionaries..."

"Courtney B. Vance - 2nd Lt. Glenn"

"The right spirit. The right attitude. The wrong color."

"Every colored pilot in the 99th went through his private hell to wear those wings. Each of those men carries not only the dream of becoming American Military Aviators but the hopes of an entire people as well. Am I the only one here that understands what that means? I was brought up to believe that beneath it all Americans are a decent people with an abiding sense of integrity and fair play. The cheers I heard across this country when Joe Louis and Jesse Owens humiliated Hitler's "Master Race" didn't just come from proud colored folks. They came from everyone. How are we to interpret that? As a United States Army Officer who gladly puts his life on the line every day there's no greater conflict within me. How do I feel about my country? And how does my country feel about me? Are we only to be Americans when the mood suits you?"

"Friends die in our business and for a lot of reasons. And the only protection you have against losing one is not to have any."

"Andre Braugher - Lt. Col. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr."

"[Cadet Johns has just died in a crash] Cadet Lewis Johns just taught you the most important lesson you'll learn here at Tuskegee. If you don't believe in God, you'd better find a damn good substitute."

"Alan Rickman - Interrogator"

"Stacey Dash - Private Miranda Myers (Ophelia)"

"Kadeem Hardison - Private Jamaal Montgomery (Ghost of Hamlet's Father)"

"Richard T. Jones - Corporal Jackson Leroy (Laertes)"

"Lillo Brancato, Jr. - Private Donnie Benitez (Horatio)"

"James Remar as Captain Tom Murdoch"

"Cliff Robertson as Colonel James"

"Khalil Kain - Private Roosevelt (Nathaniel) Hobbs (Hamlet)"

"Ed Begley, Jr. - Jack Markin, Rago's"

"One Man's Mission To Teach The Few, The Proud... The Impossible!"

"There's only one man big enough to take them on..."

"Danny DeVito - Bill Rago"

"Peter Simmons - Private Brian Davis, Jr. (Queen Gertrude)"

"Gregory Hines - Sergeant First Class Cass"

"Gregory Sporleder - Private Melvin Melvin (Polonius)"