"My father came out to California with another good friend of his who was also trying to support a large family. And this friend of his got a good job with the Oakland Public Works Department, something like that, but he quit that job cause he took a new job with the Oakland Police Department.… My father broke friendship with him, not because he joined the police force…; he broke his friendship with him because his friend was only allowed to arrest black people. So my father broke friendship with him on principle, cause that's the kind of man my father was, he was a man of high standing principle."

"I'm actually a rather shy individual. I wouldn't consider myself to be very charismatic; I never did anything hero-like, I just worked on some little community programs. I do have a role to play however — I'm a theorist of sorts — I work on theories. But I really do not enjoy discussing the details of my personal life except as it relates to the movement. I hate cameras, microphones stuck up in my face. To tell you the truth, I hate stages cause they put you up on a stage and expect for you to entertain them and I keep trying to tell them I'm not an entertainer. Came to New York and I was supposed to speak at the Apollo Theater — 125th Street. And somebody called me, said, "Huey, we gonna have to cancel the rally. Somebody's gonna assassinate you from the balcony." I said, "Listen, if I'm ever foolish enough to get up on stage at the Apollo Theatre, they wouldn't need to assassinate me. That man will just come out and hook me off the stage." What's his name? The sandman? Yeah, the sandman cometh."

"Sergeant Braver, my trusted companion, is going to allow you to double-time to chow this morning! Allow them to eat. After chow, permit them to return. When they return, grant them 2 minutes to prepare, square this area away, and stand by to fall out for close-order drill, DO YOU HEAR ME?! Because you were slow this morning, the smoking lamp will not be lit after morning chow. Now if you people don't show me anything today, if I keep getting this slow deal- we're gonna get together tonight and bust that sound barrier! DO YOU HEAR ME?!"

"I have told you people time and again! Your rifle is your best friend! You let it down and it'll sure let you down!"

"Virginia Gregg - Owens' mother"

"It's hard to be a man when you've never had to be."

"Give him 12 weeks. He'll give you a Few Good Men."

"The recruits: strong, cocky, undisciplined. But they won't be United States Marines...until somebody stronger and cockier - and, above all, disciplined - gets done with them. Somebody like Jim Moore."

"Jack Webb - Technical Sergeant Jim Moore"

"Don Dubbins - Private Owens"

"Lin McCarthy - Captain Anderson"

"To their faces, he called the recruits "clowns," "little girls," "maggots," "turds," and worse. Behind their backs, he called them wonderful."

"This is T/SGT. Jim Moore, toughest of the tough-guy Drill Instructors. One of the most powerful of all screen performances."

"Jackie Loughery - Annie"

"Charles Lane - Wilbur G. Henderson, IRS agent"

"Christian Rub - Mr. Schmidt"

"Bodil Rosing - Mrs. Schmidt"

"Clarence Wilson - John Blakeley"

"[to Alice] You're so beautiful. Like, sometimes you're so beautiful it just gags me. Maybe you're not real? Maybe you're a phantom or something? I-I keep expecting you to vanish."

"There's a tiny little engine in the green of this grass and in the green of the trees that has the mysterious gift of being able to take energy from the rays of the sun and store it up. You see that that's how the heat and power in coal and oil and wood is stored up. Well, we thought if we could find the secret of all those millions of little engines in this green stuff, we could, we could make big ones! And then we could take all the power we could ever need, right from the sun's rays."

"Boris Kolenkhov: I feel so good, life is running around inside of me like a squirrel!"

"Jean Arthur - Alice Sycamore"

"Dub Taylor - Ed Carmichael"

"Mary Forbes - Meriam Kirby"

"Halliwell Hobbes - DePinna"

"Lillian Yarbo - Rheba"

"Donald Meek - Poppins"

"Samuel S. Hinds - Paul Sycamore"

"Eddie Anderson - Donald"

"H. B. Warner - Ramsey"

"James Stewart - Tony Kirby"

"Edward Arnold - Anthony P. Kirby"

"Lionel Barrymore - Grandpa Martin Vanderhof"

"Mischa Auer - Potap Kolenkhov"

"Ann Miller - Essie Carmichael"

"Spring Byington - Penelope "Penny" Sycamore"

"Nick Holder — Joseph Buquet"

"Earl Carpenter — Auctioneer"

"Barry James — Monsieur Richard Firmin"