“The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you're already dead. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you'll be able to function as a soldier is supposed to function: without mercy, without compassion, without remorse. All war depends upon it.”
Matthew Settle - Ronald C. Speirs

“- Pvt. Caparzo: Where are we going?
- Sergeant Horvath: You're going to be sent home wrapped in an American flag with a hunk of cheese in your ass, Caparzo, you smart-ass.”
Vin Diesel - Private Caparzo
Tom Sizemore - Sergeant Horvath

“By now we'd come to look at all replacements as dead men who temporarily had the use of the arms and legs. They came and went so fast and so regularly that sometimes we didn't even learn their names. Truth is, after a while, we sort of avoided getting to know them.”
Robert Carradine - Pvt. Zab - 1st Squad

“- SSgt. Declan Patrick Coker: Fucked up. We were supposed to be there to cover the spic, we fucked up. Luther was a friend of mine.
- Sgt. Buck Atwater: He was a friend of mine, too, man. But he's dead. And that's the way it goes when you're a soldier. You just bite the damn bullet and move on.”
Matt Mulhern - SSgt. Declan Patrick Coker
William Forsythe - Sgt. Buck Atwater

“Each would have an epitaph. He died for his country because he didn't fucking listen!”

Gregory Hines - Colonel Jim McQuade