“- Bung: You reckon we're doing any good by being here?
- Harry: Not much.
- Bung: Why not?
- Harry: Because when we get home we'll be an embarrassment to our great nation, the only bastards who'll want to know about us are the silly buggers in this man's army; let's face it, we have no one else.”

John Hargreaves - Bung
Graham Kennedy - Harry

“- Ben Edwards: Uncle Ethan, will you tell us about the war?
- Ethan: Oh, the war ended three years ago, boy.
- Ben Edwards: It has? Then why didn't you come home before now?”
Robert Lyden - Ben Edwards
John Wayne - Ethan Edwards

“- Mara: Why didn't you come back?
- Maj. Joe De Lucca: I'm sorry. The war got in the way.”
Sophia Loren - Mara
John Cassavetes - Maj. Joe De Lucca

“Why don't you go home huh? Look at me, look at Neely, we're all a bunch of trouble junkies, we've been mainlining danger and adrenaline for so long nothing else gets us off, it's kind a sick... Before you pick up the habit - and you will pick up the habit - go back to L.A. and be the weirdest guy in the room again. Whada you think?”

Mel Gibson - Gene

“I already gave them my word. I told them I'd bring them all home to their mothers, which means I already lied to half of them. Can't lie to the rest.”

Barry Pepper - Mike Strank