"You gave me some advice once. Perhaps I can give you some. Go to the people. Let them instruct you. Quite silently, they usually do. But tell them... the truth unvarnished."

"Gary Oldman - Sir Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, afterwards Prime Minister of the United Kingdom"

"Lily James - Elizabeth Layton"

"Kristin Scott Thomas - Clementine Churchill"

"Here is a woman who's always tired, for she lives a life where too much is required."

"The deadly danger here is this romantic fantasy of fighting to the end. What is "the end" if not the destruction of all things? There's nothing heroic in going down fighting if it can be avoided. Nothing even remotely patriotic in death or glory if the odds are firmly on the former. Nothing inglorious in trying to shorten a war we are clearly losing."

"Ronald Pickup - Neville Chamberlain"

"He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle."

"Ben Mendelsohn - George VI of the United Kingdom"

"Tommy Swerdlow - Bienstock"

"Tim Quill - Beletsky"

"Anthony Barrile - Languilli (aka Alphabet)"

"M.A. Nickles - Galvan"

"Michael Dolan - Murphy"

"Don Cheadle - Washburn"

"Steven Weber - Sgt. Worcester"

"Dylan McDermott - Sgt. Frantz"

"Harry O'Reilly - Duffy"

"Don James - McDaniel"

"Courtney B. Vance - Doc"

"Daniel O'Shea - Gaigin"

"War at its worst. Men at their Best."

"While the rest of the world wondered why, the Screamin' Eagles fought and died in the fiercest battle of America's bloodiest war."

"The most realistic portrayal of the Vietnam War ever filmed. Because it's the only one that's true."

"Brush your teeth in a rapid, vertical motion. That's up and down for all you rebels."

"Tegan West - Lt. Eden"

"Michael Patrick Boatman - Motown"

"Worcester: We had a short-timer once. Johnny I-forget-his-name. He wore a flak jacket, two helmets and armor underwear. A Shau Valley... your time's up, your time is up."

"Galvan: We're Airborne. We don't start fights, we finish 'em!"

"It don't mean nothing, man. Not a thing."

"I smile at my Mamma. Great meal, Ma. Would you please pass the fucking potatoes. The ham is fucking A, Ma. You don't know how... how fucking great it is to be home. How you going to act, huh?"

"We've been up on that hill ten times, and they still don't think we're serious."

"All right, listen up. You people will not die on me in combat. You fucking new guys will do everything you can to prove me wrong. You'll walk on trails, kick cans, sleep on guard, smoke dope and diddely-bop through the bush like you were back on the block. Or on guard at night you'll write letters, play with your organ, and think of your girl back home. Forget her. Right now, some hair head has her on her back and is telling her to fuck for peace. This is Han. Those of you who are foolish will think of him as 'gook,' 'slope,' 'slant' or 'dink.' He is your enemy. He came over on the Chieu Hoi programme, and after he fattens himself on C-rations he will be hunting your young asses in the A Shau Valley. Now forget about this Viet Cong shit. What you'll encounter out there is hard core NVA, North Vietnamese. Highly motivated, highly trained and well equipped. If you meet Han or his cousins, you will give him respect and refer to those little bastards as 'Nathanial Victor.' Meet him twice, and survive, and you will refer to him as 'MISTER Nathanial Victor.' Now people, I am sick and tired of filling body bags with your dumb fucking mistakes."

"Han is closing in on your position. It's night... Look at me! I'm gonna save your life and your gonna save mine. It's night, it's raining. While you're thinking about peace, love and whether or not we should be in Vietnam, Han is going to cut your fucking throat. And you're sleeping. You've been humping the boonies for months. It's your turn to sleep, you're allowed to sleep. What do you think Han is going to do? Is he going to wake you up, Alphabet? And smile? And talk about women? Mister Nathanial Victor gets his rocks off watching you die. Some of you think you have problems because you're against the war. You demonstrated in school... you wear peace symbols on your steel, and you have attitudes. I'm orphan, my brother's queer, the city of Chicago got the clap from my sister, Mom drinks, Dad coughs blood, I have ringworm, imersion foot, the incurable crud and the draft ruined my chances of being a brain surgeon. People, you are in Vietnam. You have no problems. Except me. [points to Han who is holding an RPG and grinning] And him."

"Coach is the father. Coach is a mentor. Coach has great power on athlete's life."

"Piper Curda - Honor Atherton-Yoo"

"Elizabeth Yu - Mary Atherton-Yoo"

"Gabriel Chung - Charlie Atherton-Yoo"

"D. W. Moffett - Tom Atherton"

"Guy Boyd - Henry Beck"

"Lawrence Arancio - Morris Sperber"

"I'm getting Dave. And I don't care how much it costs."

"Well, I'm not gonna cross-examine you, say what you wanna say."

"Honor, I got you that scale, as I told you at the time, as a tradition, because that's what my mother got me when I graduated from high school. You try going through life without a scale. See how that goes."

"Lee Perkins - Corporal Daly"

"[to his son] God, I can't tell if we're connecting, or if I'm creating a bad memory for you in real time, but I can't help it."

"Insecure people are very dangerous, aren't they? I'm secure. Make sure you put that in there."

"Mark Ruffalo - Dave Schultz"

"David "Doc" Bennett - Documentary Director"

"Sienna Miller - Nancy Schultz"