“My dear wife, you get something twisted out of your insides by all this blood, filth, and noise. I want to stay changeless for you. I want to come back to you the man I was before.”

Ben Chaplin - Pvt. Bell

“If you think that this war isn't changing you you're wrong. You can only circle the flames so long.”
Sienna Miller - Taya

“- Grace Rohan: This war, has put an end to decent things.
- Mac: We can't change what's past. Not even the war can do that.
- Grace Rohan: We did the proper thing. But we lost love. And that's sad, Mac.”
Sarah Miles - Grace Rohan
Derrick O'Connor - Mac

“- Maurine Collier: I just don't understand what went wrong. His whole life he was so grown-up, so polite.
- Karen Collier: War changes people.
- Maurine Collier: War doesn't make you rude to your parents!”

Kathy Bates - Maurine Collier
Kimberly Williams-Paisley - Karen Collier

“- Young Student: You say you want to end the war, so why don't you?
- Richard M. Nixon: Change always comes slowly. I pulled out more than half the troops. I'm trying to cut the military budget for the first time in 30 years. I want a volunteer army. But it's also a question of American credibility, our position in the world.”
Joanna Going - Young Student
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Richard M. Nixon