"Rome is burning, son. And the problem is not with the people that started this; they're past irredeemable. The problem is with us, all of us, who do nothing. Who just fiddle. Who try to maneuver around the edges of the flame. And I'll tell you something - there are people out there, day to day, who are fighting to make things better."

"Kevin Dunn - ANX Editor"

"Peter Berg - Lt. Col. Falco"

"Derek Luke - Arian Finch"

"Andrew Garfield - Todd Hayes"

"Michael Peña - Ernest Rodriguez"

"Tom Cruise - Senator Jasper Irving (R-IL)"

"Meryl Streep - Janine Roth"

"Robert Redford - Professor Stephen Malley"

"What do you stand for? What do you fight for? What do you live for?"

"If you don't STAND for something, you might FALL for anything"

"We're fighting a brand of evil that thinks the last 1,300 years of human progress is heresy punishable by violent death."

"In a sense we're both on the same team. We're teammates. We're both have a responsibility. You've already sold the war. Now I'm asking you to help me sell the solution."

"We walk, and Afghanistan reverts back to the Taliban. Only now the Taliban has metastasized into something infinitely more vicious and potent because they're now 2-0 versus superpowers. They butcher the people who helped us, who voted and were stupid enough to put their faith in our word. So call it not only the end of hope for tens of millions of Afghans, but the end of American credibility, the end of America as a force for righteousness in the world. And when we're forced to go back in a couple years, and please quote me on this, we'll be squared off against a shattered Iraq, a hopeless Afghanistan, and a nuclear Iran. How many troops are we going to need then? I guarantee you'll be adding some zeros."

"You're good with words, Todd. But you know what would make them even better? If they had a heartbeat."

"I'm still here, Todd, because I'm a selfish man. I'm selfish for the rare times when you know you have someone in your class that has rare gifts to go on and do big things on a big scale. I realized my gifts aren't my theories but my ability to recognize great potential in others and maybe give them a little shove when they need it."

"The decisions you make now, bud, can't be changed but with years and years of hard work to redo it... And in those years you become something different. Everybody does as the time passes. You get married, you get into debt... But you're never gonna be the same person you are right now. And promise and potential... It's very fickle, and it just might not be there anymore."

"J. Michael Moncrief - Hardy Greaves"

"Don't worry about hitting the ball or where it goes, just swing the club, feel the club."

"I hear you lost your swing. I guess we got to go find it."

"Yeah, I always felt a man's grip on his club just like a man's grip on his world..."

"Yep... Inside each and every one of us is one true authentic swing... Something we was born with... Something that's ours and ours alone... Something that can't be taught to you or learned... Something that got to be remembered... Over time the world can, rob us of that swing... It get buried inside us under all our would haves and could haves and should haves... Some folk even forget what their swing was like..."

"I heard my dad say that you won every golf tournament there ever was in the South and how you hit a drive so long that they made you stop playing for 20 minutes just to measure it for a record... and how you used to swing righty, but you were in the woods once by this tree so there was no room to swing righty... so you borrowed somebody's lefty club and hit the ball six inches from the hole..."

"Confused, broken... and unable to face a return to a hero's welcome... Junuh just disappeared... Hoping to forget... and to be forgotten..."

"Your daddy is out sweeping streets because he took every last dime he had, and used it to pay up every man and woman he owed and every business who worked for him, instead of declaring bankruptcy like everyone else in town, including your best friend Wilbur Charles' dad, Raymond, which is why he's able to sit around all day long on his dignity! Your daddy stared adversity in the eye, Hardy. And he beat it back with a broom."

"Some Things Can't Be Learned. They Must Be Remembered."

"It Was Just A Moment Ago."

"Will Smith - Bagger Vance"

"Matt Damon - Rannulph Junuh"

"Charlize Theron - Adele Invergordon"

"Bruce McGill - Walter Hagen"

"Joel Gretsch - Bobby Jones"

"Lane Smith - Grantland Rice"

"Peter Gerety - Neskaloosa"

"Wilbur Fitzgerald - Roy"

"E. Roger Mitchell - Aaron"

"Jack Lemmon (uncredited) - Narrator / Old Hardy Greaves"

"Compare with the real statement made by Charles Van Doren."

"You want to know what? If I do nothing else I will convince them that Herbert Stempel knows what won the goddamned Academy Award for best picture of 1955; that's what I'm gonna accomplish."

"[To his wife] You wanna be worshipped? Go to India and moo."

"[To a reporter outside the Congressional hearing room] You know what the problem with you bums is? You never leave a guy alone unless you're leaving him alone."

"Hank Azaria - Albert Freedman"

"Allan Rich - Robert Kintner"

"Martin Scorsese - Martin Rittenhome"

"Johann Carlo - Toby Stempel"

"Mira Sorvino - Sandra Goodwin"

"This week on Twenty One, watch Herb Stempel be fed to the Columbia lions. Watch Charles Van Doren eat his first kosher meal on Twenty One."

"Charles Van Doren — he wouldn't know the answer to a doorbell if you didn't give it to him."

"David Paymer - Dan Enright"

"Paul Scofield - Mark Van Doren"